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Car bodies made with hemp. :D Air less tires. Bicycle roads. Corner vegetable stands. Keeping aging parents at home, multi generational families under one roof. Available, cheap, alternate energy. I live in the southwest and love my 'swamp coola'. It sits on my roof and cools the house to a sweet 75 degrees. That's alternative energy that has been round for decades. Course the refridgerant AC folks are woiking hard, advertising, to get folks to change over. Walking to corner veg markets, if they existed. Stop running on the streets. Who says you can add to the public appearance of self torment and aggravation. Stretch in your house or out in your backyard. Have sex. Eat vegs to moderate your heft and improve your appearance. Smile when you open your eyes in the morning. Don't believe the news or the commercials or tv in general. Believe in your self. I know. I know. Believing in yourself is likely to get peoples not to like you, but they can get bent or pack sand (their preference). Have a good memorial holy day y'all.
 
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Car bodies made with hemp. :D Air less tires. Bicycle roads. Corner vegetable stands. Keeping aging parents at home, multi generational families under one roof. Available, cheap, alternate energy. I live in the southwest and love my 'swamp coola'. It sits on my roof and cools the house to a sweet 75 degrees. That's alternative energy that has been round for decades. Course the refridgerant AC folks are woiking hard, advertising, to get folks to change over. Walking to corner veg markets, if they existed. Stop running on the streets. Who says you can add to the public appearance of self torment and aggravation. Stretch in your house or out in your backyard. Have sex. Eat vegs to moderate your heft and improve your appearance. Smile when you open your eyes in the morning. Don't believe the news or the commercials or tv in general. Believe in your self. I know. I know. Believing in yourself is likely to get peoples not to like you, but they can get bent or pack sand (their preference). Have a good memorial holy day y'all.
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I'm gonna go easy on you with this one as it sounds pretty darn good..but you are living in a dream State...3/4 of the rest of the country would not be able to do all those things..especially in the big cities and that's where 3/4 of our population lives....I wish it could be as simple as you put it, but it ain't..that's the reality and you need to check it once in a while..other than that./.well said.:)
 
Buster. You going easy on me is like a complement. James is cool too. I'm on my third beer so I hope you two are doing just as good.
 
News reports say BP about to announce "Topkill" is officially a failure.

Says next they'll try something else- cutting off the riser, and trying to capture the oil with a new pipe.

Note: Once again I have to ask- WHY is BP more concerned with trying to capture the oil, rather than stopping the flow???

Because by capturing the oil, they continue to make money from it.

While the gusher continues.

Bad.

very, very bad.
 
BP's top kill effort fails to plug Gulf oil leak



ROBERT, La. – BP has failed in its latest attempt to plug the oil leak in the [COLOR=#366388 ! important][COLOR=#366388 ! important]Gulf [COLOR=#366388 ! important]of [/COLOR][COLOR=#366388 ! important]Mexico[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] with mud and cement.

BP chief operating officer [COLOR=#366388 ! important][COLOR=#366388 ! important]Doug [COLOR=#366388 ! important]Suttles[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] said Saturday that the maneuver known as a top kill had failed. It was the latest setback for the company trying to stop the crude from further fouling waters, wildlife and marshland.

The spill is the worst in U.S. history and has dumped between 18 million and 40 million gallons into the Gulf, according to government estimates.

BP's top executive had put the chances of success for the top kill at 60 to 70 percent, but officials had cautioned that it had never been done 5,000 feet below the sea.

BP says it's already preparing for the next attempt to stop the leak. Under the new plan, BP would cut off the damaged riser from which the oil is leaking and cap it with a containment valve.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100529/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill
 
This is how I invision them plugging the well..
Per their discussion/press conference..they are gonna cut off the top of the well Riser above the BOP and remove the damaged well riser pipe, then stick a Cork in it..

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Put a cork in it?

Nope. That won't work either. Too much pressure coming out to cork it.

But hey- I wish them good luck with that.


Let's see:

Large dome didn't work.

Small "top hat" didn't work.

"Topkill" procedure didn't work.

So now they are going to try to cut and cap.

Yah- good luck with that.

My prediction- how I envision it- (not that I want this, but this is what I think will happen)

1. Cut and cap won't work.

2. Gusher will continue to gush.

3. BP will keep trying, by cutting, crimping, stuffing, etc. Nothing will work.

4. About three months from now, maybe four months, they will finally get either the second or third well drilled, and will try to intercept the pipe several thousand feet below the sea floor. It's hitting a 14 inch pipe on an angle, from 4 miles away, and hoping that you hit it squarely the first time. Cause that's all you are gonna get.

If they get lucky then, they'll relieve enough pressure out of the pipe to be able to do the "topkill" procedure again, IF they can still do it then.

If they are not lucky, then it lasts another YEAR.

We'll see.
 
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Put a cork in it?

Nope. That won't work either. Too much pressure coming out to cork it.

But hey- I wish them good luck with that.


So now they are going to try to cut and cap.

Yah- good luck with that.
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Really?:nuts:..you know this How?...My God man!!!!!..what the hell are you sitting around for?..You need to Call BP and the Coast Guard and all the Scientists on the project, and, and OBAMA.. and tell them to halt and not try this or even attempt it..because, YOU know there is too much pressure and it wont' work...And to go ahead with drilling relief wells instead, that will take three more months (maybe)..even though they have drilled one already and they are 2/3 of the way there...But YOU say 2 to 3 wells will be needed....you are incredible
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Buster said:
Really?:nuts:..you know this How?...My God man!!!!!..what the hell are you sitting around for?..You need to Call BP and the Coast Guard and all the Scientists on the project, and, and OBAMA.. and tell them to halt and not try this or even attempt it..because, YOU know there is too much pressure and it wont' work...And to go ahead with drilling relief wells instead, that will take three more months (maybe)..even though they have drilled one already and they are 2/3 of the way there...But YOU say 2 to 3 wells will be needed....you are incredible
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Yes Buster, I'm a pretty smart guy. Not a brilliant one, but smart enough to know to get facts- and I do try to learn, get real data, and analyze data rapidly.

I do that based on a lot of years of taking little bits of data, and putting together the clues, to figure out what the h-e-double-tooth-picks is going on. Detective work, if you will.

Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle put it best.

He said: "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”


You go ahead and think what you will.

For me, I've picked up enough little pieces out of the news, out of the scientists reports, out of the mechanical data that is floating up, out of the Congressional testimony, to recognize this-

It is going to be a very, very bad deal, for a LONG time to come.

I give the "cut and cap" about a 10% chance of success. I would love to give it higher probability- but the pressure in the well continues to make me think it simply is impossible to do it that way. And once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, whatever remains is...the truth.

"cut and cap" isn't going to work, because we're still looking at huge pressures in the pipe. that' s why "topkill" didn't work. I WISH cut and cap would work. By all means, give it a try, because it isn't going to change the fact that they will need to try to do the second/third well thing to intercept the well far below, and divert the pressure that way. "cut and cap" does nothing adverse to that need, and will at least keep some people busy giving it a try while they work on the real solution- which won't actually come to fruition until, let's say- August 10 to 20th. You can quote me on that- Look for an attempt to tap the main well with a second one in the second or third week of August. That MIGHT work.

I give the second and third relief wells a bit better chance- but still no higher than 50=50 at best. Based on all the little tidbits of data I have been able to absorb.

It's not that I know everything about drilling oil, Buster. I don't.

But I can read.

And learn. and search out the truth.

We'll see.
 
Here is a satellite photo from a couple days ago (May 25th) to give you an idea of the size of the spill so far. The oil slick has extended south more than 85 miles from the well.

This is from NASA for May 25th:
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The Russians have done it a couple times when they had an out-of-control deepsea gas drillhole, from what I've been reading. they were successful at getting the things plugged. From what else I'm reading today, it may not be that simple with this one.
 
NUKE IT and the Tsunami will wash away the oil in the wet lands! :eek:
 
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