Stopping the oil leak: Golf balls vs. nukes
Officials are considering using shredded tires and golf balls to try to gum up the Deepwater Horizon oil gusher. Why isn't anyone talking about blasting the leak with a nuke?
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Hi im Marie and i would just like to say that im 14 and dont know much about the oil industy..or any of the techincal terms to this BP deep horizon oil leak...my father works for Siemens...oil and gas company and telll me about the leak...but anyway to get to my point...golf balls? shredded tire? to stop the oil leak?!?!!!????! UM....even a 14 year old like me can figure out that that is the stupidest thhing ever!
I have an idea to stop oil leak. If we send pipe down which is bigger diameter than leaking pipe to the surface and let the pipe to discharge to the oil tanker which has 3 benefits.
1-By discharge to oil tanker we collect all oil coming out and can be carried to the oil finery or to the shore and is not going to mix with sea water .
2-there will be no pressure on bottom of sea where is a hole, therefore leak can be patched and close around the new pipe and new pipe can be secured.... More
I have an idea I’m trying to get out to anyone that will listen I believe this can possibly contain this oil spill. BP is so prideful right now and overwhelmed that they can’t see the forest before the tree.
Creating a tube / sleeve that is large enough in diameter to surround the current pipe or tube that the oil is coming out of now.
Example:
I’m sure we have manufacturing companies that make concrete tubing or can make some kind of metal tubing that will be able.... More
Hi, My name is Thomas Andrew Traylor, I'm an inventor in Mesa, AZ..
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I think I have two ideas that should work. The first is the same plan that BP had "pumping mud into the pipe". "It's really a good idea, but flawed." Under pressure from the oil wanting to float the mud.... More
Ich frage mich die ganze Zeit, hat eigentlich schon mal jemand daran gedacht, dass dieses Leck auf natürliche Weise abgedichtet werden könnte. Unsere Natur ist doch eigetlich recht gut ausgestattet. Wie wäre es denn z.B. wenn man das Leck mit einem Stück Felsen abdichten würde. Da war zuvor Erde und Felsen, die das Oel zurückgehalten haben, also warum soll es durch die richtige Platzierung nicht auch den gleichen Effekt wieder haben? Es wäre ja so eine günstige Variante im Vergleich zu.... More
Using a nuclear weapon for sealing the leak should have been considered a long time ago.... (at the end of April at the latest) It cannot be detonated under water only, it has to be a significant distance under the seabed. (A few hundred feet below it) and very close to the well. How big would the bomb have to be? A few hundred kilotons. Detonating it close to the seabed floor will cause radiation leaking out.
It's most important to stop the leak now, whatever means before the entire gulf becomes one big oil slick. It seems logical that if they detonate a bomb (does it have to be nuclear?) at the base of the ocean floor where the leak is occurring, that the earth would close in on itself - it's worth a try!
This is like a bad 1970's disaster movie. LOL!!!
Enter your comments. here plumbers use large blowup test balls to test for lecks just get one same as pipe ,use air to pump up ball to stop leck.
Maybe a hydraulic powered tool similar to the Jaws of Life, but in reverse could be made to crimp the pipe closed !
Enter your comments hereDril 3 new wells around old one (100 feet deep beneath seafloor). Put in explosive and blow up same time. The explosive wave in new wells must squeeze the old well and close the oil sorce. Only this way you can destroy old well.. That`s my opinian. Sorry for my English. My e-mail: assadiz@rambler.ru
Use a "Chop saw device" but not cut all the way through the pipe. The blade from the saw would plug the flow
Unsustainable Americans! Your EROI without the oil lever is catastrophic. Your ***** are on the line! You destroy your very food sources for oil! The day of the electric bullet train is neigh, the end of your motor-car imminent, and your great fattened calf progeny about to face the sacrificial alters of the world. The "Cheap Oil Era" on which you built your prosperity draws to and end, and as the great dragon rises in the East, we see only closure for you. Nuclear, your other energy of choice.... More
Enter your comments hereWhat country are you from, MN Vengence? Do you have the courage to say? Are you endowed with enough pride and certainty to allow me to offer you a similar, although less manic, break down of your own weaknesses? anyone who thinks the US represents actual capitalism is truly ignorant. Please don't suggest communism. Tens of millions of dead bodies buried in its name are a testament to its futility. Are you from China, perchance? Care to talk about coal emissions? .... More
What country are you from, MN Vengence? Do you have the courage to say? Are you endowed with enough pride and certainty to allow me to offer you a similar, although less manic, break down of your own weaknesses? anyone who thinks the US represents actual capitalism is truly ignorant. Please don't suggest communism. Tens of millions of dead bodies buried in its name are a testament to its futility. Are you from China, perchance? Care to talk about coal emissions? Are you typing on a.... More
The title sounds like disaster. Well, it is indeed. Good luck to those who will work on this.rage driver
The title says it all. It's a tragedy and a difficult situation. Do you have anything useful to say?
http://www.mnn.com/communityblogs/apostatebodhisattva/deepwater-horizon-...
I think there are people talking about it! Do think this is your idea? Sounds like you watched the RT video news story on this Shea?
My brother says that using a nuke to stop the leak would damage relations with North Korea and Iran concerning their own nuclear goals, that they would take our using a nuke and use it as an excuse to blame us for nuclear proliferation, or say that we're hypocrites to try to get them to stop developing nukes when we go and use one to stop an oil leak. That is just retarded to me. It's obvious to anybody with a lick of common sense that using a nuke to stop an oil leak on the ocean floor is a.... More
To follow this thread more, I would suggest this video by RT news which goes in depth into this NUKE idea. LINK>
http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/49/7ojCbqfRRr8
