Hayride sources indicate that today’s effort at a “top kill” of the Macondo gusher carries with it gigantic stakes for BP – as if no measurable progress is made on the spill through that method, President Obama will announce when he comes to New Orleans on Friday that the federal government will seize control of the response from BP and turn it over to the U.S. Navy.
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has reportedly floated the idea of sinking a battleship directly on top of the Macondo well in order to drop 80,000 tons on it and crush the drill pipe and the blowout preventer alike.
We haven’t confirmed it yet, but that’s the word floating around Louisiana’s state capitol today.
Imagine a garden hose with a high pressure nozzle turned on full blast buried in three feet of mud shooting straight up. Even if you parked a D8 dozer on it , it would continue to leak.
I sent this suggestion to the Deepwater Horizon response suggestion box
" because the geology will not hold the pressure making efforts to plug the leak futile. Can the flow be diverted to the surface by means of a topping cone over the leak with an attached vessel with sufficient ballast to overcome the thrust pressure. Once the flow is diverted to the surface via an increasingly larger diameter pipe system to relieve pressure, the product, mud, hazardous gases, seawater, could be separated and loaded onto tankers and barges or to atmosphere "