Engineers to build giant dome to contain US oil spill

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Engineers build giant dome to contain US oil spill

Allen Johnson

Engineers raced Tuesday to build a giant containment dome in case robotic submarines fail to stop oil gushing into the sea from a sunken rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Skip related content


British energy giant BP is operating four robotic submarines some 1,500 meters (5,000 feet) down on the seabed to try to activate a blowout preventer that can cap the oil well.

But two days of efforts have yielded no progress and placing a giant dome over the leak is now considered the best solution to ward off the threat of an environmental disaster from the huge slick developing off the Louisiana coast.

"It's a dome that would be placed over the leak and instead of the oil leaking into the water column it would leak into this dome structure," US coast guard spokesman Prentice Danner told AFP.

"They started working on the fabrication of this dome structure fairly recently and its estimated it will take two to four weeks to build," he said.

"This is the first time this has ever been done. This idea didn't exist until now. It has never been fabricated before."


The base of a pollution containment chamber
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100427/tsc-engineers-build-giant-dome-to-contai-e123fef.html

[Ian David]

1. Considering the oil was underprivileged in the first place, this will work out quite well for it. nt

[suffragette]

7. Ok,Barbara B.

:spank:


;-)

[Deep13]

2. "...This idea didn't exist until now. It has never been fabricated before."

It will definitely work, then. Nothing (else) could possibly go wrong!

Will James Bond install it? :eyes:

[Oregone]

3. My vote is for a crew led by Bruce Willis

Hes done this sort of thing before

[Rex]

4. Best part of the movie you are refering to? Bruce Willis dies at the end.

Great ending, oh and the planet gets saved too. Maybe we can just plug the hole WITH Bruce Willis? Won't be any big loss.

[CLANG]

5. Willis, Clint Eastwood, Will Smith, and Tom Hanks should be able to fix this.

[tridim]

6. This seems similar to the "giagantic block of ice" the Futurama crew used to combat global warming.

[Ian David]

8. "... And then Lancelot, Galahad and I leap OUT of the dome, taking the oil by surprise." n/t

[WinkyDink]

9. "Oh......"

[Arkansas Granny]

15. And then the ladies would swoon and reward you with silk scarves and

garlands of flowers for your bravery. Ooh! I can't wait to see it!

[Soylent Brice]

17. LMAO

[arcadian]

28. Tha is awesome

:rofl:

[malaise]

10. That dome won't survive the first tropical storm

:puke:

[Ichingcarpenter]

16. Its a Tax write off

The public will pay and the pr will continue with the oil companies


I call BS on this

[Brother Buzz]

18. A tropical storm at 5000 ft?

I suspect no effects from a full blown hurricane are felt more than a hundred below the surface.

[Ichingcarpenter]

20. Its pouring out at 5000 feet below sea level so you are saying

there are no currents down there. nor thermodynamics down there...... your science stinks.

[Brother Buzz]

25. Currents, yes, swells, no. The tempest on the surface would have no impact at that depth

[Ichingcarpenter]

26. Look at a satellite picture and tell me that

.......... god what has happened to even simple observational science in the States.....

nevermind.

[malaise]

29. Still shaking my head

:fistbump:

[Brother Buzz]

30. A satellite photograph of a yet to be installed containment dome 5000 feet under the surface?

nevermind

[Ichingcarpenter]

31. Yes the size of Rhode Island by the time they get it done

in a James Cameron film....Its the deepest oil rig in the world.


Do you need fotos to show you what is happening with your science..... good grief

[Brother Buzz]

32. You understand the damn dome is designed to trap the escaping oil at the source?

It's a stop-gap measure that, if needed and implemented, would simply close the 'barn door'. Capturing the escaped and dispersing oil is another story entirely. :shrug:

[icnorth]

11. Bravo Tony...

Well done... and take off that &*^%$# dunce cap it makes you look stoopid.:puke:

...Meanwhile, BP chief executive Tony Hayward acknowledged that strong results Tuesday boosted by higher oil prices had been overshadowed by the "tragic accident" but expressed confidence an environmental disaster would be averted.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100427/tsc-engineers-build-giant-dome-to-contai-e123fef.html

[malaise]

13. These are the same folks who said that the eleven missing

workers were in fact safe and were probably heading for Louisiana.

OK then.

[icnorth]

21. The only safety factor for these "folks"

is the "clean up" doesn't punch too big a hole in their money pouch.

[jtrockville]

12. Will there be room to house the "drill baby drill" folks under the dome?

[icnorth]

33. Nome isn't big enough to

hold all us drill babies dontcha know? If I wasn't so tied up milking my teabaggers, uuh energizing my base I'd just give Chuckie a call. He'd pull on the old flippers, take a deep breath and be down there likity split and karate chop that terrorist valve shut in a flash you betcha.

Sarah ;-)

[malaise]

35. Dream on

:evilgrin:

[obxhead]

14. "..ward off the threat of an environmental disaster"

ummm, I think we've already arrived at that point.

[zeemike]

19. I think it will work.

They will submerge the dome over the well...and sense oil is lighter it will collect in the top where they can pump it into barges or tankers...makes sense to me.

[SidDithers]

23. We do the reverse with the leaky roof in our warehouse...

rainwater runs into the collection tarp, and the hose at the center directs it to a collection container.



The problem will be getting the dome to depth, and placing it over the rising columns of oil.

Sid

[zeemike]

24. They will probably use a base that floats

And then can be flooded and sunk over the well....that is how they do the oil rigs.

[BrightKnight]

27. A simple non rigid solution could be done much faster.

Make a very large tarp, anchor the corners, and attach the center to floatation. The last step might not be necessary because oil floats.

[Nikki Stone1]

22. To greatest page

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[gov for sale]

34. 2nd dome for d-bag lobbyist and sellouts that delivered new offshore oil policy

That's the dome we should be building.....