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Skriven 2010-06-04 18:29:00 av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
Ärende: Trying the Unconventional
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On 06-03-10, DAVE DRUM said to ALL:


DD>Note to Hulet, Richardson, Croasmun and the rest of the "not invented
DD>here" bunch - pay particular attention to the last paragraph.


Note to the slow-minded:


DD>BP has received at least 38,000 unconventional ideas from around the world
DD>to stop the oil leak, including the use of oil-eating bacteria around the


No doubt ideas from all over poured in, ad infinitum!


I didn't call in any of mine, as I am not knowledgeable on drilling for oil
5000 feet beneath the surface of the ocean. I have to wonder how many ideas
the 5000-feet-beneath-the-sea-oil-drilling experts like Drum, Lewis, Otto,
Chirnside, Klahn (and don't forget Wilson) phioned in to them. I wonder how
many of the above-mentioned's ideas were used by BP to try to stop the leak.


DD>Perhaps the most alarming idea to reach the oil company was a nuclear
DD>explosion over the wellhead, a method which has worked in Russia. BP says
DD>it has no plans to use a nuclear explosion as a solution to the crisis.


*Russia* does a lot of things, not all of which are very sensible.


A nuclear blast is an uncontrolled thing. Once the nuke `goes off', there's
nothing that `controls' it. Whatever Russia did along these lines to `cap' an
undersea oil leak, could as easily have made the thing far worse than it
already was. (Gee! Lets not let *that* possibility occur to us!)


The only reason we heard about Chernobyl was that it got so large it affected
a large part of the area, and was detected world-wide. The Russians couldn't
cover it up.


Who knows what the old Soviet Union did, or the new Russia does that is
unsafe, that we never hear of?


At that depth they might get a structure over the spewing pipe to capture
the oil `there' (as I suggested), which at least might be a `start'.


By the way........I just heard on the news that they have finally managed to
lower some sort of `containment' bell over the leak, and will be directing
much of that spewing oil to a waiting tanker on the surface.


Gosh.......didn't I suggest something like that a few days ago?




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