oil spill idea

[AB Hammer]

overtaker

I sent you a pm

Alan

[overtaker]

Thanks for the replies guys.  Alan,  you pretty much have the jest of my plan.  I was hoping those much brighter than I would improve on it.
All comments welcome.

Thanks

[z.monkey]

I like the "freezeplug" idea, but what about the oil left on the water?

Anyone have an oil tanker?  Seriously!  There is Black Gold out there floating on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.  Take a oil tanker out there with a big ass pump.  Slurp the oil off the surface of the water, and pump it into a holding tank in the tanker.  Give it some time to settle, and the water will go to the bottom, oil to the top.  Pump the water out of the tank, and your left with a holding tank with crude oil in it.  Free Crude Oil!  Take the oil and pump it to another holding tank, and then fill the first one up again with what you slurp up off the surface.  Repeat until the boat is full of oil...

This wouldn't work for regular production, but in these circumstances, the more boats the merrier...

Its a free-for-all!  LOL!

[wattsup]

Freeze  plugs work on water at 100 psi levels, maybe up to 300 psi for the ultra ultra models, but they are no where near the 5000 psi pressure exerted on that 21 inch oil pipe. There is no way in hell that would work. Sorry to say.

The only way they will succeed in stopping the spread of oil, because that is all that they should be concentrating on, is to stay away from the oil pipe and just circle the area so the oil cannot get out of that area, then pump out the oil from there. Otherwise the Gulf of Mexico will become a cesspool. Or maybe I could add the Gulf of Mexico will become the Gulf of Texaco. lol

[geotron]

When a dam is built, they use all the concrete in the world.

Why not fill a giant resevoir with sand, prp compound, etc and
give it a lot of mass - a heavy object to plug this horrible flow?

I feel it killing me from many miles away.