Stopping the Oil Leak - Ideas
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Why does it seem like the answer to all problems or the punch line to a bad joke is always Cthulu?CaptainCrunch said:
Cool picture nonetheless.
"Swallow, come..."oktalist said:
"hehe, I can't believe he just said that."
EDIT: Damnit, ninja'd!
Do what Isambard Brunel did during construction of the Thames tunnel, but in reverse (kinda).
Sink a bell (or perhaps even a kind of caisson) that would cover the breach and limit the spread of the oil to the diameter of the caisson. For the bell idea, utilising the same principle of sinking the bell down onto the seabed over the breach and at the top of the bell have pipe that would exert pressure (enough to keep any oil from coming through) onto the breach (though this may likely cause other leaks and cause stress elsewhere) or use a vacuum to accumulate all of the oil in a location where it can be stored.
Sink a bell (or perhaps even a kind of caisson) that would cover the breach and limit the spread of the oil to the diameter of the caisson. For the bell idea, utilising the same principle of sinking the bell down onto the seabed over the breach and at the top of the bell have pipe that would exert pressure (enough to keep any oil from coming through) onto the breach (though this may likely cause other leaks and cause stress elsewhere) or use a vacuum to accumulate all of the oil in a location where it can be stored.
You know how you stop an oil fire? You set of an even bigger explosion right next to it. Sucks up all the oxygen. Snuffs the flame. We've got ourselves a pretty big fire, so we're gonna need a huge ba-What? It's not on fire? Oh, never mind then.
.....Uh........Have the guys from BERN Whatever-the-fuck set off a black hole next to it. Suck up all the oil, then..you know, flip the off switch or whatever. Or just nuke it.
.....Uh........Have the guys from BERN Whatever-the-fuck set off a black hole next to it. Suck up all the oil, then..you know, flip the off switch or whatever. Or just nuke it.
Cut off the damaged (read: uninstalled) blowout valve and put a proper blowout valve on top of the pipe. It's what we were supposed to do since day 1. Because it's what we have done since the 50's and earlier. It's nothing new, it just works.
EDIT: And line the beaches and estuaries with cotton bales. It's cheap, and will suck up oil that comes ashore.
EDIT: And line the beaches and estuaries with cotton bales. It's cheap, and will suck up oil that comes ashore.
There is also the Kevin Costner solution, unfortunatly this one does not involve his ego as far as I can tell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx5XgUYDQ3k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx5XgUYDQ3k
