Gulf coast oil spill

[tw]

Originally Posted by plthijinx

maybe i'm just reaching but similar to what glatt mentioned. take an oversized rubber pipe with a hose clamp type device. guide it onto the riser then use a ROV to clamp it down

Was already done - and failed.

Why did they not want the number of barrels per day measured? They did not want you to know why the things they were doing would be failures before they did it. They were using a four inch pipe to try to collect flow from an eight inch pipe. If the flow was only 5,000 barrels per day, then that four inch pipe might work. But the flow is more like 70,000 barrels per day - as so many third parties estimated from pictures. Pictures that BP would not release until ordered to by the White House.

Why would BP not release those pictures? Then we would learn how pathetic the pipe would be.

What happens to a nine inch rubber pipe that is one mile long? It snaps.

Well, a four inch pipe surrounded by a rubber stopper did not work. Stopper could not stop leaking. But then nothing they would try has ever been done before. Despite claims that they had backup plans, not one had been tested by anything but a pencil. That is the problem. The resulting oil all over the gulf is only secondary - is a smaller problem. Don't lose perspective. That is what BP's spin machine wants you to do. Worry about details.

What other solutions are being discussed? Who will be the new owners of BP. That is how solutions start. What is happening in the gulf is a forgone conclusion. The leak will not stop until that relief well finally locates and then drills into the original well some 16000 feet below the ocean's bottom.

[Pete Zicato]

Maybe this is some passive aggressive shit on the part of the brits. I think they're still pissed over the tea we wasted.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by tw

The leak will not stop until that relief well finally locates and then drills into the original well some 16000 feet below the ocean's bottom.

I've been hearing/reading that this is nowhere near a slam dunk solution either. You heard any more on it?