Gulf Oil Spill - Bigger Than Exxon Valdez (SkyTruth blog, sobering images)

[joshcryer]

http://blog.skytruth.org/

This, and other radar images that SkyTruth is getting, confirm what we've seen on the NASA/MODIS images so far, and support our conservative calculations showing that in the first week of this spill at least 6 million gallons have entered the Gulf. That's a spill rate of at least 850,000 gallons (20,000 barrels) per day, 20 times larger than the official Goast Guard estimate of 42,000 gallons per day.

The Australia blowout and spill took 10 weeks to control.

The Exxon Valdez tanker spill totaled 11 million gallons. We could exceed that in just a few days, if we haven't already.

They go on to talk about how they made their calculations in earlier posts. I don't see anything particularly bad with it, and at least one professional in the field thinks they're being conservative.

This is a disaster. (Sorry XemaSab for distracting from your post btw.)

Response vessels vs oil slick (in the early stages of the event, it is now more than three times the size):

[XemaSab]

1. I think there's enough horror to go around here

:(

[BunkerHill24]

2. Maybe investing in Oil Sands aren't that bad after all! n/t

[Sal Minella]

3. Man-made ecological disaster on land is no better than

man-made ecological disaster at sea.

Fourteen percent of the energy used in my state now comes from wind. It can be done.

Sticking with the failed and fatal technologies of the past is a big mistake.

[izquierdista]

4. Who is going to clean it up?

If any DUers along the Gulf Coast want to organize and get involved in the remediation, send me a PM.