Re: Fixing the leaking oil pipe...why haven't they?

The technology is there to fix it no question, and the fact is, that it could have been fixed over a month ago....

 

Fault lays not only with the current Administration, but with BP also.

 

KeithInNewOrleans

 

 

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:00 PM, euwe <machgielis@gmail.com> wrote:

3000 psi is why. They only have little robot ships - they can't push
down against that kind of pressure - remember, they're a mile under
the water. The pressure at that depth is incredible.... besides the
pressure of the oil and gas coming out of that pipe. It's coming out
so fast that it freezes sea water.

On Jun 16, 2:53 pm, studio <tl...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> As yet, no one can explain to me why my methods of fixing the pipe
> won't work. The fact is, it would work, and is done all the time on
> land.
>
> If the pipe is bare, cut groves 50% into the pipe into it to accept a
> screw-on collar, which can be cemented on, and in turn can accept a
> flange and a shut-off valve.
> The pipe is more than able to accept the grove cuts as it's probably
> rated far more than double the strength necessary to contain the oil
> pressure.
>
> If the pipe is already flanged, they simply need to remove the flange
> and attach a shut-off valve.
>
> I don't understand what is so difficult about fixing a pipe.
> The ocean pressures, and the exiting pressurized oil is NOT a factor
> in fixing the pipe.
> As a matter of fact, some deep land wells exhibit MORE pressure on
> exiting on 15lbs. of land pressure than in the ocean where the oil is
> exiting into the 7,000lbs of ocean pressure.
>
> All the talk of shooting tires and golf balls into it, putting cement
> into it, add dispersant, drop mountains of rocks on it, crimp it, drop
> an atom bomb on it....
> is all stupid talk for stupid people.
>
> That pipe could have been fixed in 3 days.
> Fix the pipe and stop the BS.
>
> It makes me wonder if Obama called up BP when it happened and told
> them not to fix it.

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