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At 1300 local time,BP execs announced that the latest attempt to staunch the spill from the Deepwater Horizon well had worked.
Crews spent the morning of 9 June feeding the hole in the ocean's floor with wedding cake.
Now the well won't put out.
Psych!
You knew it was going that way...
Hahaaha. The real joke would be for some science-geek high-schooler to figure a way of collecting the surface oil and processing enough of it to make a quick buck out of it. Imagine how fast they would be working to stop flow/clean up then eh? Especially if the process hit the internet. :eek: :o
The technology to collect a lot of the oil currently pouring out already exists.Skimmers,oil containment booms(not really effective in open water but you use what you have) and people tossing out oil absorbent pads and then collecting them have worked before and can help even if it takes a while to do it all.Even centrifugal oil purifiers can be used to seperate oil from water and dump the water overboard while piping the oil to tanks are available in sizes bign enough to work.
The government would rather spend time listening to an actor(Why did you just think Kevin Costner?) with a device that only replicates available equipment instead of working to co-ordinate the shipment of as much oil collection gear as can fit in the Gulf of Mexico.
That would be too simple and an efficient use of government time.
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Originally Posted by MalahatTwo7
NEWS FLASH!!!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!!!
DATELINE: NEW ORLEANS!!!
Oreck Vacuum Company has just deployed a fleet of Oreck Vacuum Boats to clean up the massive oil spill.
More at 10pm
The next sound you will hear will really suck...
Since first hearing of the issue, I've wondered why they haven't had those centrifugal devices out there right from the start. :mad: I know they're expensive but surely not as much so as the clean-up will be if and when they get that sucker capped.
"THAT" isn't a sucker...
It is a blower...
I agree... the response has been dismal and "too-little too-late".
Send a few thousand firefighters down there and they will solve it, or at least have a good time trying...
Actually what I was getting at was that some smart kid could make himself some big money (until BP and USG got notice) scooping that stuff up and selling it.
The technology already exists. the Dutch have it. Kevin Costner also has a company that can do the same. Seems there was a previous oil spill from the Exxon Valdez that spurned the development of all of this technology. Of course after 21 years of no problems no one cared.Quote:
Originally Posted by MalahatTwo7
Exactly!!!!! From day one they have not tried to pick up the oil or contain the spill. The response had been dismal at best.Quote:
Originally Posted by firecat1
Shutup.....Quote:
Originally Posted by ScareCrow57
Wanna solve this thing? Tell the dopeheads that they can get high on floating crude oil and they'll clear the Gulf so fast it'll make your head spin.
I like this suggestion. Just have to make sure all the occupants are in the building when they do this.
How would B/P handle a coffee spill?
http://www.allproudamericans.com/how...fee-spill.html
Way to go PK!Quote:
Originally Posted by PaladinKnight
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Originally Posted by jam24u
Enact a Tax on "Unprocessed Oil that is not contained within a Pipe or Tank"....... :eek: :D :p
The June 14 issue of Waterways Journal has an item about a company called SkimOil that is ramping up production of their oil skimmers for use in Louisiana,Alabama and Florida.The units are built for calmer waters so they can't be used in the Gulf for picking up the oil.The article didn't say if they were trying to design one that could handle open waters.
Basically,they suck up the oily water,seperate the two and dump the water overboard while retaining the oil.
And Kevin Costner thinks that he invented the process.
Doncha just hate instant experts?I do and I know of a few incidents where I were one.
OK that was just plain funny LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chiefy
What is really sad is that it took 8 years to put a man on the moon. 21 years after the Exxon Valdez crashed we still can't respond to an oil spill.Quote:
Originally Posted by doughesson
Check out the post in the "News Center" on oil spill solutions for a related post.
There is clean up progress being made.It's just that while they are sucking up oil,building barriers,raking the beaches and kissing POTUS' axe,there's more crude oil emerging from the seafloor.
Kinda like when you're spraying water on the A side of a structure but there is still fire showing on the B and C sides.It doesn't mean that you aren't doing anything but rather,your efforts haven't affected those parts of the fire yet.And you don't like it when reporters ask why the fire isn't out yet,like there was a specific scehdule that was promulgated.it's just that you guys aren't following it.
The last oil spill I worked on was at Paducah Ky in 1998 when a night shift tankerman managed to pay more attention to the phone call in the office with his girlfriend than he was to loading the fuel flat for the day's ops.
My first day on the job as a pilot/tankerman and we had to drag the oil booms off the dock which is a lot easier than restowing them.We hooked the end of the boom to the grocery boat and ran it around both fuel flat and storage barge to contain the oil.After the Coast Guard determined how much had been spilled(500 gallons of No.2 Diesel) and told us we could let it go to disperse in the Ohio River,we began taking up the booms.Oil covered booms are much worse to handle than putting soot/mud/whateverthef***thatwas covered LDH back on the rig.
I was standing behind the guy who'd had the spill pulling the boom but he never spoke a word to me and it was his "Friday" so we didn't meet until he came back from his time off 5 days later.
His reasoning was "I had the spill last week and there's a new guy already hired.I'll get him fired before I go" and that's eventually what happened.But that's another story.
The thing is,small or large oil spills are messy and a lot of work has to be done,diverting manpower and resources from other jobs and it it takes time to do it.
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Originally Posted by ScareCrow57