The Oil Spill might be stopped in August!
All the procedures BP has tried to stop the gushing oil from Deepwater Horizon rig have failed one by one. The top kill procedure pumped heavy solutions into a crippled well at 5,000 feet underwater and after three days of pumping, it failed to end the disaster. It will take between 3 to 7 days until we’ll know if this new procedure with robot submarines will be successful.
The well is one mile beneath the Gulf od Mexico and it seems it cannot be stopped from gushing. The permanent solution suggested by BP scientists and officials is a relief well which is currently being drilled which would be the “worst case scenario” measure BP will take. The only problem with this permanent solution is that is will be ready sometime in August. Meantime, millions of birds, fish, shrimps, wildlife environment is going to be ruined. Not to mention the lives of people who depend on the fishing industry, of the people who are working hard to keep their family happy and healthy.
Robert Dudley, the director of oil giant BP has announced earlier that the company plans to put in place a second version of a containment dome which failed at the beginning of the month. The BP engineers are going to try again with new improvements on the containment dome strategy. But that won’t stop the oil spill for ever and after! Only the relief well would put an end to this disaster. Even if the containment dome works, oil could still leak until the relief well will cut the flow beneath the seabed.
In the case of a relief well, the Obama administration has ordered BP to drill a second relief well just to make sure this permanent solution is in fact going to work 100%! It seems that Obama and his advisers have learned something after all the failed attempts: it is better to take precautions, even in case of sure things.
As for how are things on the shore, there are reported oil fires on the surface of the sea in 80 locations, 1,400 vessels are skimming up oil in other places and booms are capturing oil along the shore.
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WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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also the new method to be used by BP to (just try to) stop the oil spill (cut the oil riser, near the wellhead’s top, and put a valve with a pipe to pump up the oil to surface) has the main goal to “save the BP oil” (like all other, failed, methods used so far) but, this time, if the second part of the attempt (plug the just cutted riser) will FAIL, there will be NO FAST OR EASY WAY to stop the oil spill for at least TWO-THREE MONTHS, since, without the riser, BP can’t no longer adopt other, simpler, methods to stop the leak, like these:
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they CAN stop the oil spill within TWO days!
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I don’t think the “worst case scenario” is really being seen here! Some have mentioned that the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico may increase in size, what if a tipping point is reached and the entire Gulf of Mexico flashes into a dead zone? Let me push this danger to it’s possible extremes and see what the worst case scenario may become.
All life in the Gulf of Mexico dies including algae and plankton. Algae/plankton symbiotic relationship creates 80% of all oxygen on Earth. Couple this with vapors rising from the chemical soup mixture that is being created from the petro chemical spill as well as the dispersant interactions with the oil and air breathing creatures (humans) could start dying in large numbers in nearby land areas. Just how big this spill continues to grow would effect how far toxic vapors could spread, but again let’s go worst case; Land areas near Gulf including parts of Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and Cuba may need to be evacuated. In the case of Florida with prevailing winds entire state may become effected. Remember people are already being sickened by the fumes. I have no doubt now that there will be fatalities amongst those people with lung disease eventually, even in a best case scenario if the oil leak stopped today. Enough oil has already contaminated the Gulf waters, “greatest environmental disaster in US history” is how some are now reporting this event.
Beyond environmental considerations are financial considerations. Many retirement funds are heavily invested in BP worldwide, and the value of BP has certainly fallen on stock exchanges, hence retirements worldwide will shortly have less returns than expected by the retired, of course all other investors worldwide will be effected as well, just that many investment funds do not inform the retired where their investments are made. Much has been made of the loss of revenue by local fishermen, tourism, restaurants, and seafood distributors on down the line. But this may all be just the start of financial dominoes that likely will effect everyone on Earth eventually. In the hard economic times faced by the worldwide economy this could be far more than the proverbial last straw, there are too many people on Earth to supply with food than greatly reduced food sources will be able to feed. Under such conditions the danger of worldwide war is a factor that can not go unconsidered, humans are not always logical creatures, and fear of starvation is motivation enough for a real worst case scenario, ie; Human Extinction!
I know I am pushing this to horrible extremes, but some if not all is possible and needs consideration especially if the flow is not stopped very soon. There have also been revelations that this chemical soup may soon be reaching the Gulf Stream and that may take dangerous chemicals up the entire eastern coast of North America. From there the ocean currents will carry portions of this soup to Europe and who knows how far beyond. We are realizing that we have a worldwide economy, and so too the environment of the entire Earth is eventually interconnected. How many people out of desperation to survive will allow toxin contaminated materials and foods to be shipped to locations worldwide? Deaths are inevitable even if never tracked back to the cause.
Why am I pushing all these dangers to the extremes? Not for fear mongering! Quite the opposite actually, “To be forewarned is to be forearmed” Something needs to be done very soon to stop this oil flow. This is an EMERGENCY! Extreme action is warranted! Every nation on Earth should be concerned. Something can be done! This flow can be stopped somehow, there are literally thousands of concepts out there to deal with this disaster, yet far too long a period of time is being spent between attempts. If a hundred tons of concrete was dumped on the site that would likely stop the flow, but if it took a million tons of concrete it would still be needed to be done some way or another! Perhaps even pumping volcano ash (which we seem to have in abundance at moment)into the well would seal it forever. Much is being made of drilling the side shafts near the well to take off some of the pressure and slow the flow, but these side shafts can also be used to pump concrete or V ash into area and seal off the leak permanently. To use these shafts only as a siphon to slow the flow makes it look like we are more concerned with getting the oil rather than stopping the flow from the leak.
We need to stop this oil flow very soon! I have laid out some of the possible worst case scenarios, but I could be wrong about any of these points, however there are bound to be other worst case possibilities that I am not considering. Enough with this real life horror show, we gotta stop the flow! If a war broke out would we wait for a private company to fight the war because they somehow may have caused the conflict?