Oil seal fails...

[Jiro]

it is also my understanding that this oil reservoir underneath the earth's surface had enough pressure that when it ruptured, it blew up the oil rig a mile above it.

And it is still gushing out.

It is .... disheartening. It is also obvious that nobody knows how to stop it.

Cleaning it up is going to be another matter entirely.

1. BP was never interested in coming up with clean-up technology
2. BP boasted about blowout preventer as the most advanced way to stop the leak (epic fail at it too)
3. Because of its defective blowout preventer - the oil rig was not able to stop it from gushing which leads to explosion... which leads to oil rig to be destabilized.. which leads to pipes underwater to be broken.

It is old drilling method - drill until you hit the jackpot and it will gush it out. Then you stop the flow to put in the pipe and then let it go. Sometimes the pressure is too great or sometimes the procedure to put the pipe in went wrong... so that leads to uncontrollable gushing out. The most common method to fix it is to use a large amount of TNT and bring it there.

 

[Jiro]

Tousi, did you know Kevin Costner and his brother made a machine that separates oil from water? They had the patent for 17 years but no one was interested. BP just bought some from Kevin Costner.


If they had several heavy duty machines like this and some oil tankers, they could just filter the oil out.

Kevin Costner's Gulf Oil Clean Up Solution - How It Works

because it never worked effectively. They just fixed it just a month ago.

 

[Jiro]

Koko doesn't think that would work but if an explosion of thst magnitude was possible, then maybe atomic would be better.....

it's not the "magnitude" of explosion... it's the temperature. We can reduce the yield to any way we want but there's no conventional bomb that can burn as hot as nuclear bomb.

that's one hot bomb!

 

[Jiro]

it's funny - For past few decades - we've had.... Gulf oil spill. Exxon-Valdez oil spill. Several other worst oil spills. And nobody came up with any effective oil containment method especially the oil company?

And this is Obama's fault?

 

[Beowulf]

it's funny - For past few decades - we've had.... Gulf oil spill. Exxon-Valdez oil spill. Several other worst oil spills. And nobody came up with any effective oil containment method especially the oil company?

And this is Obama's fault?

YUP!

 

[chucky69]

it's funny - For past few decades - we've had.... Gulf oil spill. Exxon-Valdez oil spill. Several other worst oil spills. And nobody came up with any effective oil containment method especially the oil company?

And this is Obama's fault?

I'm sure they'll try and find a way to blame Bush! :roll:

-charles

 

[Frisky Feline]

I got it from the military base.

 

[Babyblue]

Frisky.

 

[Phillips]