CNN: BP's Plan To Collect Leaking Oil & Seal The Leak (A Recipe For An Even Worse Disaster?)

[Turborama]

Run time: 06:08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVrb7DXH0wU   Posted on YouTube: May 04, 2010 By YouTube Member: MoxNewsDotCom Views on YouTube: 12   Posted on DU: May 04, 2010 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 1775

 
There's Closed Captioning at the YouTube link. Here's the transcript: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1005/03/acd.01.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8269283">Could BP's solution become "Possibly The Biggest Mistake Humans Have Ever Made 2.0"...?

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[DCBob]

1. Looks like it could work in theory but the devil is in the details...

I can imagine all sorts of unexpected complications especially working at those depths.

[Turborama]

6. Here's a picture of the "funnel" they're cobbling together...

Looks like something out of a 1950s science fiction B movie.

[DCBob]

11. Looks like a giant rusty trash bin...

Very low tech and simple design but maybe thats why it might actually work.

[border_town]

2. I hope it works

But I don't want it to be spun into BP hero hour if it does. I can already see the spin zone setting up. What I don;t understand is why a rig in the middle of hurricane alley not need safty valves? Maybe congress will get off their ass now and do something.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. It had valves.

Emphasis on 'had'.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. +1. K&R...

Seems like every "solution" that they try only makes things worse... Good luck with this one. :-(

[paparush]

8. BP will probably patent it and make a Brazillion more dollars.

[Divine Discontent]

3. we all better hope this works... the man-made disaster will hopefully then go from

potentially being a disaster that generations talks about to being something that will cause significantly less damage, albeit a mess for some areas, years in the making.

As long as we don't hear another elected leader claiming it looks like chocolate! I just read a huge story on the Nashville natural disaster that has killed dozens in flooding and the reporter described it as, "floodwaters the color of milk chocolate". Are these people just craving chocolate, or stupid?

Anyhow, best of luck to BP's attempts to stop their mess from spreading further.

[EnviroBat]

7. I feel like I'm watching a bad sci-fi movie.

How fucking stupid are we as a race? The more awake I become, the more stupid people are beginning to look as a whole. I'm beginning to pray for an end to this lunacy.

[izquierdista]

12. Godzilla will close the leak

All he has to do is to melt the sea floor, if he can quit being distracted by that pesky Rodan!

[benld74]

9. Hope to catch 85% of the leak, which leave a 30,000 gallon a day leak

still open. IF it works. BASTARDS

[ironrooster]

10. gee - if only it were as fucking easy as moving around re-sizable images\nt

[winstars]

13. Bay of Campeche

I believe they tried this without success in that blowout in what I read was 165 feet of water. This one is 5,000 feet down so.... Good Fucking Luck... I hope it works of course but like I said, good luck with it.