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1) Put a big ass cap on the top of it 2) Try to choke it off by pumping in a ton of junk. 3) Blow it up. Those are truly ideas I had instantly. What's terrifyi
by staunch 16y ago
1) Put a big ass cap on the top of it 2) Try to choke it off by pumping in a ton of junk. 3) Blow it up.
Those are truly ideas I had instantly. What's terrifying is that my ideas bare any resemblance to the supposed experts's.
- mkramlich 16y agoLikewise. I pretty quickly thought of the "suck the oil plumes into a tube, draw up to surface" solution (at least as a stopgap) so was shocked that it took BP about 3-4 weeks before they put such a system in place. Weeks! Felt like that should have been on site and implemented within hours or least the first day or two after the leak began.
- yankeeracer73 16y agoI suspect the issue is more the depths they're working at. At 5,000 feet down, these "simple" solutions don't become so simple anymore.