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I sat here for about five minutes thinking about this, and this really is beyond me. But I do have this picture in my head of throwing a bunch of gigantic para
by RevRal 16y ago
I sat here for about five minutes thinking about this, and this really is beyond me.
But I do have this picture in my head of throwing a bunch of gigantic parachute things into the water. Perhaps with tubes in their centers that lead to the surface. Or, throw so many parachutes down that it creates a canopy that directs where the oil goes. Or put some kind of super heating devices on these things and I don't really know what that would do....
Or they can build a huge cone from the surface downward.
Like you said, I'm no expert.
- Ixiaus 16y agoThat isn't a bad idea at all. Since connecting a pipe is largely impossible because of the high pressure, maybe anchoring a larger flexible canopy over the well site to contain sub-sea plumes and funnel it to a couple of outputs would work... It would be difficult to control the "canvas" underwater though because of current and other unknown variables.
- jarin 16y agoThey already tried something similar in concept (the dome), but the gases froze and clogged it all up. I'm sure the same thing would happen with canopies.
- ars 16y agoIt didn't clog up. It floated away.
- danielharan 16y agohmmm... so I'll suggest something that doesn't trap everything. Overlapping partial domes if you will; the objective really is to get as much of that oil out as possible.