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| eyebegod |
I can't find the original thread for the life of me...i feel like im going crazy looking for it!?!?! Where the is it???
I just wanted to share what i just read about the impact of the spill..
"A dire report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is warning today that the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with “total destruction”.
Russian scientists are basing their apocalyptic destruction assessment due to BP’s use of millions of gallons of the chemical dispersal agent known as Corexit 9500 which is being pumped directly into the leak of this wellhead over a mile under the Gulf of Mexico waters and designed, this report says, to keep hidden from the American public the full, and tragic, extent of this leak that is now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day."
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/05/toxi...-north-america/ |
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| yankeeBaby |
Yeah lots of threads just disappear around here lately. :wtf:
There is no doubt that this oil spill is a catastrophe. I have to sound a bit simplistic (and undereducated on the topic) in wondering why oil companies dont have stronger plans (and backup plans) when something like this occurs? This has gone on for WAY too long.
Maybe the world WILL end in 2012 ;) :eek: |
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| coolestrl |
This is useless Scientists made a new car that works on water
Water from the gulf that is |
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| Ali Mahmud |
why wasn't there a valve installed at the end of the pipe, like they use in any types of piping system. If that was there they could just turn it and stop the flow. I think they valve cost too much, and they just cut corners, and now look what happened.
If this keeps going, it seems likely by 2012 this could consume the world, just a scary thought, and have taken no mathematical calculations to see if this is true, lol. |
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| Groundhog Boy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ali Mahmud
why wasn't there a valve installed at the end of the pipe, like they use in any types of piping system. If that was there they could just turn it and stop the flow. I think they valve cost too much, and they just cut corners, and now look what happened.
If this keeps going, it seems likely by 2012 this could consume the world, just a scary thought, and have taken no mathematical calculations to see if this is true, lol. |
They had a safety valve installed. That's what failed after the blowout.
| quote: | Efforts to stem the oil leak have focused on a standard piece of drilling kit called a blowout preventer (BOP). The BOP acts as an emergency cut-off that should prevent oil gushing from an open well head, as depicted in numerous films when prospectors strike it rich.
The recent explosion caused a spill because the BOP failed to engage fully. It is proving so hard to fix because the BOP, and so the source of the leak, lies beneath more than a mile of water.
Simon Boxall of the National Oceanography Centre said: "Oil extraction from the deep sea is new and the technology used is at the cutting edge. Well head incidents on land or in the shallow North Sea are relatively easy to cap and the methods are tried and tested. At 1,500 metres the head is as easy to get to as if it were on the moon. The water pressures are huge and the logistics very complex."
He added: "BP are in the unfortunate position of having to pioneer ways of dealing with it which are new and untested and this will take weeks if not months. Many have asked why isn't there some form of safety valve or stopto turn the oil off. There was, and it is this that has gone. It is like the mains stopin the street for your house. If a water leak occurs in the house or in the driveway then you just turn off the mains stopwhile you deal with the problem. But what do you do when the mains stopbreaks?"
BP has used robot submarines to try to trigger the BOP, but their efforts seem to be failing. It could try to install a second BOP on top of the first, and to prepare, engineers are set to measure the pressure of the escaping oil. One drawback is that tampering with the faulty mechanism might increase oil flow.
While oil continues to pour out, containment is the best strategy. BP has rushed to produce giant domes called cofferdams that it intends to place over the leaking well head, to isolate the oil from the surrounding sea. The plan would then be to pump the trapped oil and water mix into storage barges on the surface. It will take at least a week to fit these domes, and engineers are uncertain how they will perform at deep sea pressures.
In the long term, the threat will only be removed by giving the pressurised oil in the tapped reservoir another escape route. BP has plans to drill another two wells, probably into the reservoir itself, to divert the oil from the leak. Experts say this could take months.
In the meantime, oil that reaches the surface is being tackled with floating booms, burnt and treated with chemicals – though much of this effort may be better for the television cameras than the environment.
Martin Preston, senior lecturer in marine pollution at the University of Liverpool, said: "I am not convinced that burning the oil is the right strategy to adopt because it can leave a very persistent residue that can be more resistant to natural breakdown and is also impossible to treat in other ways. Continuing to use chemical dispersants would be a better option."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environme...stop-leak/print |
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| euphoria |
| quote: | Originally posted by yankeeBaby
Yeah lots of threads just disappear around here lately. :wtf: |
lol yep, it was deleted. Dunno why. |
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| ReenTeenTeen |
| i love it that there is a ongoing spill :rolleyes: we can always make new threads |
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| AY STAR |
| quote: | Originally posted by yankeeBaby
Yeah lots of threads just disappear around here lately. :wtf:
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i believe it has something to do with coconutt water :D |
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| coolestrl |
| quote: | Originally posted by euphoria
lol yep, it was deleted. Dunno why. |
Govt. Conspiracy |
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| Blake |
Apparently there's enough oil for it to continue to spill for the rest of our lifetimes, eventually contaminating the larger part of the earth's oceans if it's not stopped.
All of their hard work will have been for nothing
This is probably what will end up forcing a shift towards alternative energy sources, unfortunately. |
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| hitokiri |
| quote: | Originally posted by Blake
Apparently there's enough oil for it to continue to spill for the rest of our lifetimes, eventually contaminating the larger part of the earth's oceans if it's not stopped.
All of their hard work will have been for nothing
This is probably what will end up forcing a shift towards alternative energy sources, unfortunately. |
so ur telling me LeVar Burton can save the day? sweet! |
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