Discussion: Global Warming and Other Environmental Issues

[Alex The Great]

There's also the wind blowing the oil off the surface of the water. I'm sure that would be rather unpleasant.

 

[Kelly]

Where I'm at, the odor would be the same....we smell that a good portion of the time.

As of Tuesday, wind was actually helping them out, as it was pushing the oil away from the coast an out to open water....not sure if that has changed...

 

[Kelly]

The BBC gives some excellent diagrams that help explain a lot...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8651333.stm

 

[Carcharodon]

During Hurricane season it would/could be taken anywhere from Mexico to Florida. BUT, a hurricane could also absorb a lot of the oil as well and break it up.....I'm not sure of the implications in that scenario. The thing a hurricane could do is hinder the work in trying to plug the damn thing.

"Absorb" how? By "break it up" do you actually mean redistribute?

Forgive my ignorance on this...if a hurricane would pick up oil in its path...wouldn't it then rain oil?

Kind of. Yes. Oil would fall from the sky.

The rain doesn't taste salty....yet the Gulf is salt water...

I'll forgive you for this, because you're not a science teacher. The reason that rain doesn't taste salty is because it had evaporated, a process that leaves behind the vast majority of dissolved compounds and ions. That's not what would happen to the oil in the event that a hurricane picked it up.

Well, it has to go through a huge, and high storm cloud that spins like the rinse cycle....before it falls as rain.

...you're not really suggesting that the oil would just disappear, are you?

 

[Marx]

BREAKING NEWS!

THE DIRECTOR WHO OVERSEES OFFSHORE DRILLING HAS BEEN FIRED
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/27/breaking-mms-director-fired/?fbid=RJIABl2M4XT

 

[Marx]

According to the AP, the Gulf oil spill is officially the worst spill in US history. The highest estimate of leaked oil is upwards of 39 million gallons leaked. The most conservative estimate still has the total near 19 million gallons.

Holy ****!

 

[Carcharodon]

BREAKING NEWS!

THE DIRECTOR WHO OVERSEES OFFSHORE DRILLING HAS BEEN FIRED
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/27/breaking-mms-director-fired/?fbid=RJIABl2M4XT

A good start, but perhaps too little too late.

Corruption, you say? I say big ****ing surprise.

According to the AP, the Gulf oil spill is officially the worst spill in US history. The highest estimate of leaked oil is upwards of 39 million gallons leaked. The most conservative estimate still has the total near 19 million gallons.

Holy ****!

Thanks, BP. *******s.

 

[Kelly]

"Absorb" how? By "break it up" do you actually mean redistribute?

Kind of. Yes. Oil would fall from the sky.

I'll forgive you for this, because you're not a science teacher. The reason that rain doesn't taste salty is because it had evaporated, a process that leaves behind the vast majority of dissolved compounds and ions. That's not what would happen to the oil in the event that a hurricane picked it up.

...you're not really suggesting that the oil would just disappear, are you?

Sure, and sorry, but no I do not believe that it would "rain" oil....

I didn't ask for your forgiveness, therefore, don't really need it, but thanks....

And, no didn't come anywhere near suggesting that...

 

[Kelly]

According to the AP, the Gulf oil spill is officially the worst spill in US history. The highest estimate of leaked oil is upwards of 39 million gallons leaked. The most conservative estimate still has the total near 19 million gallons.

Holy ****!

We believe it now that AP has said it....????

They've been saying this for weeks....no surprise.

 

[Kelly]

What some experts say....which I am not nor will I ever be. *smiles*

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/in_focus&id=7453351
http://www.wbur.org/npr/127036434

What a shock, scientists do not agree....lol

 

[Marx]

Did anyone else hear that BP supposedly had to stop the 'top kill' method? Apparently, the engineers in charge realized that drilling fluid being used in the well was escaping along with the oil.

 

[Paradoxium]

So it looks like it is 1 million gallons of oil being spewed out per day

 

[Marx]

It's sickening...

 

[Paradoxium]

Ok I haz did the mafe

- 1,000,000 gallons per day
- 42 gallons per barrel (crude)

So that means we are losing 23,809.5 barrels a day

 

[Paradoxium]

The idea of using a nuke is being floated around btw.

 

[Marx]

Ok I haz did the mafe

- 1,000,000 gallons per day
- 42 gallons per barrel (crude)

So that means we are losing 23,809.5 barrels a day

There are also penalties already in place for spills that amount to $4,000 a barrel. (Or something like that.) BP could very well be bankrupt after this.

The idea of using a nuke is being floated around btw.

Using a nuke for what?

 

[Paradoxium]

The administration is already consulting experts on the possibility of nuking the oil spill. It's a rumor - google it up, all over the news and blogosphere.

 

[Marx]

Wouldn't a nuclear bomb on the ocean floor do more damage than good?

 

[Paradoxium]

I genuinely have no idea whatsoever. But this would be the one thing the private market cannot (legally) do.

 

[Alex The Great]

A nuke in the gulf is....risky. That could make a small tsunami, or a large wave. And the oil would be carried all the way to New Orleans...*sigh*

 

[Marx]

I would imagine that kind of force could have a serious impact on plates and fault lines as well, causing earthquakes in the region.

 

[Alex The Great]

And if a tsunami hits New Orleans, they're ****ed

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Bill Nye explaining the "Top Kill" strategy

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/05/25/jk.bill.nye.science.of.oil.cnn

 

[Nivek]

Wouldn't a nuclear bomb on the ocean floor do more damage than good?

Considering all the underground rivers down here, yeah, not a good idea...

 

[Alex The Great]

Bill Nye explaining the "Top Kill" strategy

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/05/25/jk.bill.nye.science.of.oil.cnn

I ****ing love Bill Nye


Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!