Grab tons of ducks, throw in gulf.. Net ducks out, rinse and repeat. Problem solved.

Make a new pipeline, and use submarines to replace the broken shit or connect it with an oil line that is still good?

Then try to collect as much oil as possible that we can use again. Since oil floats on the surface of the water, make some kind of machine that shaves offs the oils over the water or something.

This post was edited by Mark28 on Jun 23 2010 03:31am

The nuclear bomb won't ever be done by the US. Apparent Russia has closed big oil leaks like that in the past, but I don't see Obama authorizing something like that. It could work based on what Russia has done in the past.

edit: So what the US can do, is using smart bombs that can operate in crude oil and use precision denotations to close the hole.

Actually, I can see the use of smart bombs actually working

This post was edited by Mark28 on Jun 23 2010 03:40am

Hoover!!

PREVENTION!


Make sure the owners of oil rigs not only pay their fines, but, shut down until actual repairs of safety systems were made.




As to the current debacle:

You mean to tell me, with all of the scientists and engineers that work for BP and other oil companies they can't come up with a viable solution to cap this thing?
What about the so-called community of brilliant scientists and engineers worldwide?
Better yet, doesn't NASA have some the smartest people on the planet? And they can't solve this?>



Sorry folks, I am not a conspiracy theorist, but ask yourself the same questions and then tell me there is no fix. There is a fix alright, lol.



Better yet, keep oil industry and auto industry from buying up alternative fuel means patents and shelving them for decades. There have been answers to fossil fuels for years but the "money" won't allow it to happen. How much greed is enough?

This post was edited by luciferus on Jul 12 2010 06:01am

As much as one million times the normal level of methane is showing up near the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher, enough potentially to create dead zones in the water. "These are higher levels than we have ever seen at any other location in the ocean itself," according to sources cited by Reuters. The "flow team" of the US Geological Survey estimates that 2,900 cubic feet of natural gas, which primarily contains methane, is being released into the Gulf waters with every barrel of oil.

The constant flow of around 65,000 barrels of crude oil places the total daily amount of natural gas at over 188 million cubic feet. So far, over 13 billion cubic feet may have been released, making it one of the most vigorous methane eruptions in modern human history. The crude oil from the "Macondo Prospect" well contains around 40 percent methane, compared with about 5 percent found in typical oil deposits. To add to the challenge, methane and other toxic gases are trapped in deep water locations. Methane measurements can give a view to the extent of the oil gush in the Gulf of Mexico. Note our previous briefing: "Gulf Oil Gusher: Danger of Tsunamis From Methane?"


Accelerating Effects

Like-for-like, methane is 23 times more potent than Carbon Dioxide or CO2 at trapping solar radiation, as recognised within the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. Methane is far more reflective and calculated over a period of 20 years, as opposed to 100 years, its radiative force is 72 times that of CO2 emissions. This makes vast releases of methane very powerful "positive feedback" loops that accelerate global warming.

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article21004.html


Whodathunk