Plug the damn hole!

We are all impacted by this, no matter where you live. Things like this keep adding up, and chipping away at our biosphere.

The Coast Guard said 210000 gal. a day. That's 3818 barrels a day, or 1,393,636 barrels a year. They say there is enough oil down there to keep it flowing for the rest of our lives. Who's life? Our kids lives? My life?

If it is our kids lives and they never get that thing plugged, that will be 104,522,727 barrels of oil. Enough to have 418 Exxon Valdez disasters. It would be like our children having 5 Exxon Valdez spills every year for the next 75 years. I think all people on earth will feel this in one way or the other.

Plug the damn hole!

Yeah man this thing is suckin badly,and in all honesty I dont think they are really tryin all that hard to plug it,because if they plugged it they couldnt rape us as much at the pump. You would think that in todays technology diverse world they would have some kind of safety mechanism for when things like this happen. As someone who works in the machining/engineering world it doesnt seem like it would be all that hard. Hopefully they pull their heads out soon.

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Originally Posted by Ub3rB0ng

As someone who works in the machining/engineering world it doesnt seem like it would be all that hard. Hopefully they pull their heads out soon.

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I have a degree in Fluid Power and I have to agree with ya on that.

How deep is the break? Couldn't they just feed down the same size pipe with a slip collar and tighten the thing down? Once they got it sealed below they could shut off a valve above the water.

Have a good one!:thumbsup:

I would think that would work,at least temporarily,I think the main issue they may be fighting is the depth of the water,there are a few companies that specialize in unmanned subs built just for this type of thing,lord only knows what they have even tried. Someone needs to just man up and do it. If anything else this should start a precedent as what not to do in such a disaster. Cleaning it all up if they ever cap it is gonna take the longest amount of time.They should just light it on fire like they were going to originally.

I think they could stop it by building a devise that could be inserted into the offending pipe. Have it made something like an umbrella would look. Once inside the pipe open the devise and let the pressure of the oil pushing it, secure it.

I made a drawing to try to help show what I mean.

I doubt they would ever use an idea from a "pot head".

Dont be so sure,some of the most technical people in the world are potheads.
Ive worked for several companies that do alot of stuff for the oil companies,
its amazing how much money,resources and man hours these companies waste trying to get contracts and such. they really need some kind of hydraulic valve or something put on there. theres a company I used to work for about 10 years ago that manufactures special pipe cutting equipment they could use to make the pipe useable again. Maybe one day mankind will learn that greed isnt the answer,and I hope that for my kids sake thats sooner than later. As if the current economy isnt bad enough now we gotta deal with all of this nonsense too. Maybe another revolution of somekind will wake them up.

Hey, any idea is a good one at this point. You have as much validity as anyone as far as I'm concerned.:thumbsup:

This CATASTROPHE is extermely worrisome to me and could do a lot to further damage our economy and the relative economies of our neighboring countries.

We need some fast action on this and I think that BP and our US Gov should be open to any ideas from any companies or international govenrments that could offer us advice or assistance.

I don't give a shit about North Korea, Greece's economic implosion or Lindsey Lohan's panties.

The massiveness of this oil spill could be more detrimental, to our country's eco, than a nuclear disaster.

I was born in North Florida and raised there to the age or 14 when my family moved to Indiana. When I turned 16, I ran away from home and went back to Florida. I went to Tampa and lived there for 2 years.

After that I was back and forth, returning to Florida again and again, up till the deaths of my grand parents.

Even though I do not live there now, Florida and the Gulf coast will always hold a special place for me. I have been all along the Gulf from Tampa to Port Arthur, Texas. It sickens me to see what is happening there now.

To think that if I went back there, I couldn't go walking down the beach with out tripping over dead wild life, or couldn't swim in the Gulf's warm waters, is horror.

There has been crimes committed against humanity in the past. This goes beyond that. This is a crime against nature and the environment.

When any of these people drill for oil, or any other activity that has risk for great environmental harm, they better remember one thing. The environment belongs to every living thing, including us. There is nothing, not even oil, worth the destruction of our environment.

If any of these people want to gamble with our future, they better be prepared to pay a very high cost when they fail. It's is not just our future. It is the future of every living thing they risk.

2012 has to start somewhere.

I really dont see how they haven't done it yet. I mean they built the fucking lines, why can't they re-build them. Yes, they are at the bottom of the ocean, but it was when they built it as well, what makes NOW so different that NOW they don't have the technology to go down there and construct.

RETARDED!

-C

The reason they are having such a hard time is, they are using the same failed techniques they used on the Ixtoc I oil spill that happened in 1979.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtoc_I_oil_spill

While technology for deep drilling has advanced greatly sense 1979, technology to deal with a potential disaster has not.

They were not able to stop the flow of oil from the Ixtoc I oil spill until relief wells were completed and the well capped on 23 March 1980, nearly 10 months later.