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nnuut said:
The cruel truth is there is nothing that we have that can even come close to replacing Oil. In the mean time how about working on some kind of new catalytic converters or something practical, it's hard to believe that we can go to the moon and lack the ability to invent something that can filter out all of the toxins in exhaust. Just bitching and crying won't keep the country going, we need energy.
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Well said and the real truth!
 
Solar is Our Future...

Solyndra to Declare Bankruptcy
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Solyndra-Shutting-Down-128802718.html

Solyndra, Solar-Panel Company Visited by Obama, Plans to File Bankruptcy
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...ankruptcy-mulls-sale-and-licensing-deals.html

Solyndra Offered $535 Million Loan Guarantee by the U.S. Department of Energy
http://www.solyndra.com/2009/03/us-department/

Solar Purge Drives Weakest Into Bankruptcy, Buyouts With More Deals Coming
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...ankruptcy-buyouts-with-more-deals-coming.html

Things that make you go... Hmmm... :notrust:
 
Massiv e new oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. Near the spot of last year's BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Well. Sources say BP hired 40 ships to go start booming containment operations, but BP is denying that the slick even exists.


Edited on Thu Sep-01-11 12:39 AM by sce56
http://www.examiner.com/environmental-news-in-tallahass...
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New leak near Deepwater Horizon site quickly becoming a massive oil slick

Judson Parker
Tallahassee Environmental News Examiner
August 31, 2011

Over the past two weeks, I have been closely following reports of renewed leaking in the Macondo oil field, the site of last year's Deepwater Horizon disaster (Map). First, New Orleans Lawyer Stuart Smith reported that nearly 40 ships were hired by BP to conduct a boom-laying mission over the August 13th weekend. Next, nonprofit organizations On Wings of Care and Gulf Restoration Network conducted a joint flyover of the spill site, bringing back photographic evidence of fresh oil near the site of the Macondo well. This in turn prompted reporters from the Mobile Press-Register to hire a boat out to the site, where they found massive "globules" of oil rising to the surface, creating a growing sheen on the water (you can read about that here).
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Today, pilot Bonny Schumaker of On Wings of Care once again took to the air over the Gulf of Mexico, finding evidence of what appears to be a massive leak near the site of last year's oil drilling disaster.

According to Schumaker, the oil "stretched for miles" with one continuous sheen stretching for nearly 10 miles. This contradicts BPs official story, which is that "none of this is true."

It's interesting then that Schumaker reports radio communication with a ship known as the Sarah Bordelon earlier this afternoon, who claimed they were gathering oil samples for BP (Marinetraffic.com confirms the location of the Sarah Bordelon within the vicinity of the Macondo).
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More:
http://www.examiner.com/environment...zon-site-quickly-becoming-a-massive-oil-slick

and a youtube of the oil slick from yesterday, that BP OIL denies even exists:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlWKptW74CY
 
There are a couple of different theories over what is causing the oil slick (which BP denies even exists).


One theory is it's a well head cement casing failure at the BP Macondo well.

Another theory is that it's the oil which has found an alternate path around the cemented wellhead.

Over at TheOilDrum.com, there’s a bit of discussion among the highly technical commenters that the oil could be coming from failed well casing in the Macondo. One of BP’s concerns as it was killing the well last year was of possibly breaching the piping below the mudline, allowing oil to flow into the surrounding formation and come up elsewhere on the sea floor.
This is possible, although as part of the well-kill process engineers pumped 5,000 feet of cement into the Macondo from the top and bottom. At one point it sat with its cap completely off with no oil flowing as part of its plugging and abandonment process. It seems likely any breaches in the well casing would have been evident at that time.
The scientist who tested the oil for the Alabama paper speculates the oil could be surfacing from the Deepwater Horizon’s riser, the pipe that connected the well to the drilling rig and that now lies crumpled on the seafloor near the wellhead. He also thought it could be coming from natural seeps. (Yes, they really do exist).
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then again, it could be something totally different- with 27000 abandoned wells in the Gulf of Mexico, it could be totallly unrelated to the BP blowout.


More:
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/08/31/gulf-oil-slick-is-it-macondo-or-something-else/#loopbegin
 
James48843 said:
Near the spot of last year's BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Well.
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James48843 said:
...but BP is denying that the slick even exists.
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James48843 said:
...that BP OIL denies even exists
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James48843 said:
which BP denies even exists
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James48843 said:
...at the BP Macondo well.
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No, it might not be BP's fault...

James48843 said:
...it could be totallly unrelated to the BP blowout.
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Oh, ok.

I am not saying it is or it isn't. If it is from a BP well, then BP should clean it up, period. And quickly...
 
Well, the Oil is coming from somewhere but where?
:confused:
Coast Guard and BP: Well Not Leaking


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Mobile Press-Register Staff took a trip to the site of Deepwater Horizon well.



By: Associated Press
Published: August 26, 2011
NEW ORLEANS -- Federal officials probing reports of small amounts of oil popping up on the Gulf of Mexico near where a BP well blew out last year say they've found no oil leaking from seafloor wells.
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http://www2.wkrg.com/news/2011/aug/26/coast-guard-and-bp-well-not-leaking-ar-2326309/
 
Is this the same spot?:cool:

Oil Sheen Sighted in Gulf of Mexico Raises New Questions About Last Summer's Spill
By Rebecca BoylePosted 08.31.2011 at 1:54 pm

Reports of a new oil sheen first surfaced on Aug. 18, close to the site of last year’s devastating spill. BP and Coast Guard officials deployed two submersible vehicles to the site, but BP said a visual inspection indicated there was no oil released from the Macondo well. The Coast Guard said last week that the oil was the result of natural seeps and/or permitted releases at other oil drilling sites, according to the Press-Register newspaper in Mobile, Ala.
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http://www.popsci.com/science/artic...raises-new-questions-about-last-summers-spill
 
Well, at least it's an oil sheen and not a charlie sheen.

The former can be controlled using conventional methods, the latter not so much.

f'n rock stars anyways, winner winner no mo shrimp dinners.
 
nnuut said:
The cruel truth is there is nothing that we have that can even come close to replacing Oil. In the mean time how about working on some kind of new catalytic converters or something practical, it's hard to believe that we can go to the moon and lack the ability to invent something that can filter out all of the toxins in exhaust. Just bitching and crying won't keep the country going, we need energy.
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No matter how much we "drill baby drill" the US will never be able to produce enough domestic oil to to satisfy domestic energy needs. Denying the problem will not make it go away or keep the country going.
 
Mapper said:
No matter how much we "drill baby drill" the US will never be able to produce enough domestic oil to to satisfy domestic energy needs. Denying the problem will not make it go away or keep the country going.
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So what are we going to use instead of Oil, Slick?:laugh:
 
I'm going to have to keep that secret to myself so I can become the alternative energy billionaire :rolleyes:

I don't know Slick, but I think our domestic oil and that of our international "friends" in Mexico and Canada will be a pretty handy investment in the future. I'd rather not blow the wad now and pay later.
 
Mapper said:
I'm going to have to keep that secret to myself so I can become the alternative energy billionaire :rolleyes:

I don't know Slick, but I think our domestic oil and that of our international "friends" in Mexico and Canada will be a pretty handy investment in the future. I'd rather not blow the wad now and pay later.
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Hopefully some Genius will discover something that will provide cheap and readily available energy in the future, until then we have to use what we have or downgrade our civilization back to the horse and carriage days. Back to using CORN to fuel our transportation needs, WAIT we're doing that now!:eek:
Drill Drill Drill!:cool:​
 
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