British Petroleum says that by cutting off the riser pipe that oil might increase 10-20% temporarily until they put a cap on it. My gut level feeling based on straightening out a kink in a water hose is that the flow rate will increase more like 3 times what it is now. Do we actually believe the 20% number?
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Ya know… volcanoes are quite a problem, too. Tsunamis kill wildlife and destroy beachfronts as well. This oil spill is just another one of life’s hazards. If you are so worried about it, why not just drop out of the game?
Just another day in Obamanation. Nothing to see, move along.
I see no reason to trust BP, otherwise I am not in a position to judge flow amounts.
just another reason to raise Fuel prices, Due to LOSS of oil/cleanup of oil..
Any reason to raise profits.
Comon DU, change the picture. I’m no fan of BP, but how about some taste?
Can we trust them?! Do we still believe this could never have been predicted?
Opps it’s literally deja vu all over again. What a bunch of fucking sheep why isn’t this getting more play?
Yeah sure… we can trust them.. why not? It’s not like we’re not already slaves to the state. We don’t own our own labor the IRS does.
By all means. Go with your gut. I mean, how more scientific can you get? I feel like we are in a South Park episode. Is it true that BP is a scum creating money grubbing congress whoring world-wide abomination…. or not?
When going on the unbelievable, I’m actually surprised they didn’t say that the flow rate would be 20% less…
What is the alternative? If they can actually cap it afterwards I say go for it.
OK, assuming we can’t trust BP – then what do we do? Who do we get to fix it? Haliburton?
How about this “genius”:
http://nypost.com/p/news/national/leak_solution_Zw3RdLcmYcdsA4UAz6WMwM
Of course it doesn’t take a genius to think up a solution to the problem. The trick is, do it 1 mile underwater.
If you don’t trust BP to fix it then tell them to go home and take their equipment with them. Otherwise let them fix it. Seriously people.
Besides maybe Obama should fix it since he ordered it to be blown up in the first place. He destroyed the well so he could block future drilling.
If you actually care about the environmental damage, you you should be cheering for BP to fix this, not kicking them in the head. There are tough problems in the world that the best scientific minds haven’t solved (cancer, fusion power, etc.). Just because BP hasn’t been successful, doesn’t necessarily mean they are stupid. I won’t let BP off the hook for being sloppy, corner-cutting, money obsessed fools; but they are still technically capable. I haven’t heard anyone knowledgeable about deep sea wells say they are doing the wrong things. The fixes just aren’t working.
#10
“The trick is, do it 1 mile underwater.”
Members here fail to really understand this problem. They think leaking pipe and immediately think it could be resolve like their plumbing. The funniest part is that with all the complaining here absolutely no one here has a fcking clue what the solution should be. NO fcking clue. And if they did refer to the quote above.
Since the cut already failed it’s OBVIOUS there is going to be more oil gushing out. What is there to debate about this issue? And if they do eventually manage to cut pipe there will be even more oil coming out UNTIL they manage to cap it off. As for the numbers, who at this point really cares? It’s already gone beyond sane.
Just focus on fixing the damn thing!!!
I’m so tired of people becoming amateur engineers specializing in fluid dynamics. Comparing this a garden hose is just fucking retarded.
TheOne, the trouble is, BP doesn’t have a clue what to do either. They are guessing all the way. I doubt that any other oil company has a clue either, or we would have heard about it.
So although the first priority is to “fix it”, when all is said and done… everyone involved in allowing that drilling without any effective and tested emergency plan in place, should be held accountable.
And Stay the fuk out of the Beaufort Sea, idjets.
#13 Thone
The REAL PROBLEM I have is that it’s Deja Vu all over again. 1 mile down? HAR! 30 YEARS AGO EXACTLY THE SAME THING HAPPENED in 200 ft of water!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHmhxpQEGPo" rel="nofollow">Watch this
The picture of what they plan to cut off doesn’t seem to show a kink. My best guess is 20% might be as much as the bend is slowing flow down if it is actually doing jack. There is a heck of a lot of pressure behind that gusher.
Actually, the 20% figure may be legit or even a bit of an over estimate. I think it’s pretty clear that the blow-out preventor was preventing nothing. Cutting it off may make little different.
No, the 5000 gallons per day was total bunk.
“Do we actually believe the 20% number? ”
How the hell should we know?
I’m not seeing a whole lot of Republicans wiping pelicans using their dig dig dig tee shirts.
This would not stand under my administration and it’s the least they can do for contributing to this epic disaster. Shameful
I think we can fix this problem by giving BP executives a nice bonus.
There seems to be no solution to this BP mess.
But here is my solution to the NEXT oil disaster: 2% off the price of every barrel pumped goes to safety, prevention and cleanup technology.
The media keep saying this disaster is “unprecedented” but this is a lie.
We gotta get ahead of these things.
@22 Yeah lets charge even more for oil that will solve the problem.
#16 Breetai
“The REAL PROBLEM I have is that it’s Deja Vu all over again.”
So she drags up something that happened over 32 years ago in Mexico to a well being drilled by a Mexican company? I have known over 500 active drilling rigs in the Louisiana Gulf simultaneously drilling and she had to go back 32 years for a horror story? Why didn’t she hammer on the MMS a little to?
This is not to diminish the tragedy occurring now or excuse BP’s actions but overall for the Gulf of Mexico that’s a pretty good safety record.
Why not just burn the oil?
“Why not just burn the oil?”
Now THAT would be an environmental disaster!
I said it before and I’ll say it again, I’ve exhausted this subject and it’s exhausted me. Let it pour, 2 more years and it won’t make a bit of difference. A hard rain is gonna fall.
Rev. 8:8
And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;