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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: oakranger on June 22, 2010, 01:03:52 PM
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Could this 10 year old kids be far smarter than the over paid BP engineers that can not stop the oil leak. Frankly, i believe this 10 year old got it.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/is-bp-smarter-than-a-10-year-old-20467971 (http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/is-bp-smarter-than-a-10-year-old-20467971)
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:rolleyes:
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Fox News at it's best.
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How bout we tie some weights around him and see how it would work out? :rolleyes:
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This kind of stuff makes it to the TV news of a major station in your country? :huh
That's starts to explain a lot... :uhoh :bolt:
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We don't have news anymore..... just entertainment shows.
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Ehhh... :confused:
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Personally I thought it would be so easy as PLUG UP THE HOLE. But clearly it isn't, and now we are so desperate, we are taking advice from Children? :rofl :rofl :rofl
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Looks like dad was thinking "Why did I agree to do this?"
I was thinking about ways to cure this. How about making a pressure vessel and surrounding the well head, sinking the vessel into the seabed. Then have a disc at the top on the outside of 4 foot round, and the inside of the disc 6 inches around. The oil would continue to flow until pressure was reduced in the vessel allowing the entire weight of the ocean to push against the 4 foot area of the disc vs the 6 inch area that the oil would be forcing against,sealing it. Then perhaps dumping tons of concrete or something over it when done. Im trying to remember what its called..differential pressure principle I think.
No Im not going on Fox lol
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We don't have news anymore..... just entertainment shows.
Apparently the news here in Charlotte is who died and how in a 200 mile radius. It's useful
if I'm in too good a mood that day :D
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well. it dose seem like a logic approch to fix it.
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does that hose pipe look like about 15,000 psi?
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no, i bet it still can be done
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BP has come away from looking very very stupid, because they are responsible for a very stupid thing. The corporation's attempt at saving face to the public is see-through and just sad.
However, I truly believe they have some very smart people working on this and I bet there is a very good reason or reasons why this won't work. This to me is classic Fox News anyway. Did they run a piece about Obama right after this? :lol
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no, i bet it still can be done
How? It would blow apart, not loosen to allow a plate to be slid in as in his video. It is a completely different scale of forces at work.
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Better stick to Biomedical Engineering, Professor Vaughan :lol
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We don't have news anymore..... just entertainment shows.
Agreed.
That being said. After watching some of the more recent footage of the leak. I can think of a few things just off the top of my head that would slow if not outright stop the leak even at a mile down.
The larger problem probably is you have a bunch of engineers who dont think any idea that isnt theirs is a good one.
This is a plumbing problem. They (engineers)are probobly also trying to way over think it and come up with a solution 100 times more complex then it needs to be just like when they design something.
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This kind of stuff makes it to the TV news of a major station in your country? :huh
That's starts to explain a lot... :uhoh :bolt:
I know, Lusche, I know. That's why I don't watch much TV anymore.
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How? It would blow apart, not loosen to allow a plate to be slid in as in his video. It is a completely different scale of forces at work.
I am sure that they can make or have a high tension steel plat that can take that kind of forces. The answer to stop that leak is at that joint just below the open end. The are just making harder than what it should be.
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Man duct-tape and gorilla glue can fix anything
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I am sure that they can make or have a high tension steel plat that can take that kind of forces. The answer to stop that leak is at that joint just below the open end. The are just making harder than what it should be.
to insert that plate in between 2 pieces of very large pipe, all the while there is how many psi of pressure behind that oil? then do to it a mile below the ocean surface, with robotic vehicles.
it doesn't seem very feasible.
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I am sure that they can make or have a high tension steel plat that can take that kind of forces. The answer to stop that leak is at that joint just below the open end. The are just making harder than what it should be.
Usually they would totally remove the malfunctioning valve by unbolting it and the bolting a new valve (that is open) on, then close the valve.
This would work if the casing bowl and the malfunctioning BOP`s were still in position.
I have not seen any pictures of the BOP stack which leads me to believe that the casing has actually moved up out of the borehole some.
(if this is the case then they can not kill the hole by restricting the flow coming out of the casing)
If this is the case then the only way of killing it is to enter the bore hole either by reentering the original borehole or by directional drilling into the borehole downhole
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The plate could work if (smaller) holes were drilled further upstream of the oil pipe to relieve some of the pressure.
Not a great idea, but that's about all i've got atm. :o
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i dunno i kinda like the blakish water an all the tar an what not on the beaches