oil spill idea

[overtaker]

What do you think about using Liquid Nitrogen to stop the leak?
Possibly sending several thin canasters of Liquid Nitrogen and oxygen DEEP into the well with a mechanism to break the canasters. Would it freeze the oil long enough to follow up with heavy mud and a cap?  Would it shatter the pipe?  I know it is a hair brained idea but what do you think?

Thanks   

[AB Hammer]

What do you think about using Liquid Nitrogen to stop the leak?
Possibly sending several thin canasters of Liquid Nitrogen and oxygen DEEP into the well with a mechanism to break the canasters. Would it freeze the oil long enough to follow up with heavy mud and a cap?  Would it shatter the pipe?  I know it is a hair brained idea but what do you think?

Thanks   

Overtaker

I am in communications with BP and I will pass your idea in your name to them as well.
But the smaller doses are better so it possibly make the oil more into an oil ice cream slug could have possibilities. but to much and it will fracture the pipe line IMO. Think of freezing water in your house and this could have a similar effect. It would have to be inserted by a guide to keep it away from the walls of the pipe.  I do agree it might help with the top fill method.

Alan

PS the Congressman's office put me in touch with BP today.

[mr_bojangles]

smash the pipe with a hydraulic ram so it flattens out and stops it, i call it the KGH effect

,,,,,,,,,(Kinked Garden Hose),,,,,,,,,hah

[wattsup]

Incredible that someone here will open a thread on that question. Just yesterday I went on BPs web site and sent them an idea.

Basically, all these ideas are stupid, except mine. ha ha ha

What they need to do immediately is to stop the oil, not from leaking out that pipe at 5000 psi, which is a loosing proposition, but to stop the oil from escaping a sort of sarcophagi from which they can then pump the oil up while they drill those two wells. Top hats won't work. They need to quickly put a dome around the whole area and high strength Gortex type material is available immediately and can be made very quickly into such a system.

I put a diagram here;
http://purco.qc.ca/ftp/Wattsups%27%20stuff/Gulf-Oil-Spill/

Just click on the jpg file.

wattsup

[mscoffman]

@All

That idea of creating an frozen oil plug until concrete
can set is a good one. This is used to install water line
taps in copper pipes.

My idea was to use the existing containment structure
that didn't work, but to add electric "seal heaters" to
it to melt the methane gas hydrates. I mean it worked
for the space shuttle. Why fix something when one
can just add seal heaters to it?

I don't want to be identified with hydrocarbon fuel manufactures
as I expect these type of problem are associated  with a systems
on it's last legs. Sure has been a lot of problems lately. I hope BP
share holders are having a warm fuzzy feeling about the future.

:S:MarkSCoffman