An amazing opportunity has arisen for any person with creative ideas for how to stop the flow of oil currently spilling into the gulf. BP is now accepting ideas from far and wide. You can even go to one of their web sites and leave your own ideas! Who knows? Perhaps you are sitting on a revolutionary idea that could solve the problem and make you MILLIONS! I have come up with several creative ideas already. For instance:
We send out a call for Dutch boys with large fingers and deep sea diving experience.
We design a new automobile that runs on an oil and salt water mix.
We create floating restaurants around the spill, and market 'blackened' seafood as a new delicacy. The proceeds from this enterprise would then be invested in advancing duct tape technology.
We stop up the hole from which the oil is spilling with oil industry executives, thus stopping the leak and also saving millions of dollars by eliminating their salaries and bonuses.
Once the leak is stopped, we seal the hole with fat legislators who allowed oil industry regulations to be waived or ignored.
Well, I can't tell you ALL my good ideas, but put your thinking caps on people. There is a fortune waiting to be made here!
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hsss...good you didn't tell all your good ideas...
I've seen the news about the spill but not how/why it started?
BLOGitse
I think what went wrong is currently under investigation. But first of all, a blow-out as deep down in the ocean as this one is unprecedented. The well extends almost a mile to the ocean floor, and then a little more than 2 miles through rock to tap into the oil. To some extent, BP, Transocean, and Halliburton are in the 'blame game' mode. Briefly, once oil is tapped into, 'mud' is sent down to counter the pressure of the oil and gases to erupt in a geyser-like manner. Mud is some kind of synthetic goo that typically can control this problem, but, in this case, a gas bubble escaped to the surface and ignited and blew everything to smithereens. 11 men died along the way.
Generally a plug is put in place to stop the eruption of gases and oil. This is typically done with the mud still in place as a temporary control measure. There is some evidence that the mud was actually removed before the final plug was put into place. Another stage of the operation involved putting a cement sleeve or casing around the hole. That job was done by Halliburton some 20 hours or so before the fatal gas bubble escaped. So, this is another thing to look closely at. The fail safe of a blow-out preventer is intended to stop off the escape of oil and gases if other things such as the above, have gone wrong. In this instance the fail safe failed. The blow-out preventer did not work properly. There is some evidence it may have partially worked. That is, it may be holding back what could be an even worse eruption of oil into the gulf.
So, we get the idea that in drilling at such depths as this ( we have already tapped sources closer to shore) may present problems not fully considered.
It must be understood as well, that such exploratory drilling as this calls for waiving certain restrictions previously put in place by the Environmental Protection Agency. A recent example of this was last week's court room victory by Shell, Inc. allowing similar explorations in arctic waters that present a whole other set of unknown issues and potential consequences.
This is as close as I can come in trying to explain what happened in the gulf. In my own mind, this urgent rush to exploratory drilling is Pandora's next box, and the lid is just beginning to come off.
I gave Chase his summer cut and they are going to use lots of the dog hair from TX and LA to try to plug up the hole (no kidding.) Others have suggested a "giant sponge." (Makes me think of Steinfeld and the "sponge-worthy" stuff :~) I do like your ideas though.
The entire burst of creativity surrounding the oil spill has inspired me to write some poetry:
Oh, oil slick, oil slick you are so large
Yet you do not come from a big huge barge
Onward to Texas you inch oh so near
Gosh, I hope you know how to steer!
It's poetry slam a la Gulf Oil Spill.
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