That's what I get for not reading the thread first. I just read an article on NPR about it apparently a robot bumped a vent. I am really wondering why they could not just re open the vent down there and leave things be instead of removing the entire fucking cap.
The problem is that the bump sent a gas bubble into the downstream warm water pipe that's keeping the crystals from forming. So they have to stop lest they plug the pipe until the warm water is flowing again.
I feel kinda bad for whatever pilot made that error. He must really feel like shit right now.
The problem is that the bump sent a gas bubble into the downstream warm water pipe that's keeping the crystals from forming. So they have to stop lest they plug the pipe until the warm water is flowing again.
I feel kinda bad for whatever pilot made that error. He must really feel like shit right now.
Well, this is BP here, odds are the ROV controller was doing a line of coke off of a hooker when he was running the unit.
Because "robot bumped the vent" could mean "half-ton ROV rammed the vent at 20 knots."
Seriously? SERIOUSLY!!! Stop crashing the fuck into things. I'll give you some leeway on the damn pipe breaking, and it being under the sea, but stop sabotaging your own efforts!
Because "robot bumped the vent" could mean "half-ton ROV rammed the vent at 20 knots."
Seriously? SERIOUSLY!!! Stop crashing the fuck into things. I'll give you some leeway on the damn pipe breaking, and it being under the sea, but stop sabotaging your own efforts!
As has been said many times before, operations at those depths are vastly complicated. It's not one guy with a joystick controlling the robot while eating nacho chips and drinking beer.
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edited June 2010
Maybe the dispersants + oil are less toxic to people, and thus that is why they are using it? So in that case fuck the fish save the people? IIIIIIIIIII am reaching, never mind, screw us all.
Seriously someone make a photoshop or shitty gif of the english goalie greene trying to block the pipe. It has to exist somewhere.
Because "robot bumped the vent" could mean "half-ton ROV rammed the vent at 20 knots."
Seriously? SERIOUSLY!!! Stop crashing the fuck into things. I'll give you some leeway on the damn pipe breaking, and it being under the sea, but stop sabotaging your own efforts!
As has been said many times before, operations at those depths are vastly complicated. It's not one guy with a joystick controlling the robot while eating nacho chips and drinking beer.
I was fine with how BP was handling this situation until this point. I understand that it is difficult to perform operations that far down. But this really pushes it over the edge they should be competent enough not to fuck up the one thing that is at least working a little bit.
Sorry but if this was already posted(this thread moves fast!), but if you ever wondered what 50,000 barrels looks like, someone on youtube with the unreal engine shows us.
The BP drilling station on the artificial island in the Beaufort Sea. Because of its location on the artificial island, it has been exempted from the moratorium on offshore drilling.
But about three miles off the coast of Alaska, BP is moving ahead with a controversial and potentially record-setting project to drill two miles under the sea and then six to eight miles horizontally to reach what is believed to be a 100-million-barrel reservoir of oil under federal waters.
It's like-
It's like they're playing a video game, and feel completely removed from any and all consequences. Sim Oil Tycoon.
Except some goon forgot to turn off the disaster events.
Who's the dumb shits sitting on the beach with their umbrella?
"DAMNIT We're going to go out on that beach and enjoy it, I paid $2000 for this vacation and we're going to use it to it's fullest, even if that means Jimmy goes swimming in the god damned oil!"
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It's like-
It's like they're playing a video game, and feel completely removed from any and all consequences. Sim Oil Tycoon.
Except some goon forgot to turn off the disaster events.
More like turned them on to a high degree actually. Maybe they think they're off, but they're obviously not. See that picture of the coast for evidence.
And just think, if we raised the price of gas to $9 a gallon, i.e. another $6 tax, it would bring in more money than the entire federal income tax.
Somebody; go get elected on a $9 gas platform, stat!
Do you realize how regressive such a tax would be?
Only if it was only on gasoline. Most energy used in this nation is still used in production and other production related industries. Then heating and cooling. Then car transportation.
The price of food is very dependent on the price of gas.
False, unless you're talking locally produced food shipped in someone's pickup - food shipped via semi or diesel ship is absurdly cheap per pound to ship. A semi uses about .031 gallons per pound of goods shipped. Food shipped via freighter is an order of magnitude less than that.
I'll put it this way, if you drive 6 miles to the grocery store and fill your SUV with groceries, you used more gas to carry those items of food than the semi that brought them 3000 miles did
From a few pages back, because I am slow at reading this thread, don't know if anyone addressed this.
We also use natural gas and oil to make the fertilizers that we use to grow our food. So increasing gas price does in fact directly correlate to increased food costs.
Because "robot bumped the vent" could mean "half-ton ROV rammed the vent at 20 knots."
Seriously? SERIOUSLY!!! Stop crashing the fuck into things. I'll give you some leeway on the damn pipe breaking, and it being under the sea, but stop sabotaging your own efforts!
As has been said many times before, operations at those depths are vastly complicated. It's not one guy with a joystick controlling the robot while eating nacho chips and drinking beer.
I was fine with how BP was handling this situation until this point. I understand that it is difficult to perform operations that far down. But this really pushes it over the edge they should be competent enough not to fuck up the one thing that is at least working a little bit.
BP found a better video game player and the cap's back on.
I'm finding it hard to be optimistic given how much has already come out. There's still too much focus on the well itself, and not the damage the oil continent is doing and will do.
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As much as 1 million times the normal level of methane gas has been found in some regions near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, enough to potentially deplete oxygen and create a dead zone, U.S. scientists said on Tuesday.
Texas A&M University oceanography professor John Kessler, just back from a 10-day research expedition near the BP Plc oil spill in the gulf, says methane gas levels in some areas are "astonishingly high."
Kessler's crew took measurements of both surface and deep water within a 5-mile (8 kilometer) radius of BP's broken wellhead.
"There is an incredible amount of methane in there," Kessler told reporters in a telephone briefing.
In some areas, the crew of 12 scientists found concentrations that were 100,000 times higher than normal.
"We saw them approach a million times above background concentrations" in some areas, Kessler said.
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Oh god fuck that.
This is exactly the kind of shit I was worried about weeks ago. So much for even being able to grow anything down here now.
I don't even think I can feel anything anymore. I'm emotionally exhausted.
So after hearing his interview on Anderson Cooper last night, I looked up a couple of videos of Billy Nungesser. I realized, im probably looking at the next govenor of the state when ever Jindal leves office. I mean, if he wants the job, his entire campaign could just be showing a couple clips like this (especially the part about the conference call ~0:40 and the BP official ~4:00 in the first clip), and I cant see most of the people in this state not voting for him.
So after hearing his interview on Anderson Cooper last night, I looked up a couple of videos of Billy Nungesser. I realized, im probably looking at the next govenor of the state when ever Jindal leves office. I mean, if he wants the job, his entire campaign could just be showing a couple clips like this (especially the part about the conference call ~0:40 and the BP official ~4:00 in the first clip), and I cant see most of the people in this state not voting for him.
The free market will naturally produce the best oil spill clean-up efforts ever. If you contract it out, contractors will compete to be the best at oil spill clean-up, and you'll get cheap, effective clean-ups. It's basic free market economics! It worked in Iraq didn't it?
How near are these damn relief wells! Clearly this cap isn't enough, what's BP's next step in containing this nightmare.
Pshaw. 'Clean up this nightmare'. That's hard work, you know?
BP is moving forward, not getting quagmired in the past. I mean, the spill's already more than a month old. It's time to stop getting hung-up on this whole 'leak' business. I've got two words for you: Yacht Race.
Plus, there's new opportunity to be found off the Alaskan coast, where there isn't all this 'regulation' nonsense. Who wants to deal with plugging up holes when you can go drill new ones?
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You'll wish they raised it to $4 a gallon in 2010, $6 in 2013, and $8 in 2016 when there's long lines and "out of gas" signs in 2017
That's what I get for not reading the thread first. I just read an article on NPR about it apparently a robot bumped a vent. I am really wondering why they could not just re open the vent down there and leave things be instead of removing the entire fucking cap.
I feel kinda bad for whatever pilot made that error. He must really feel like shit right now.
Well, this is BP here, odds are the ROV controller was doing a line of coke off of a hooker when he was running the unit.
Thank you. Damn I swear it's like nobody has ever heard of price elasticity.
Seriously? SERIOUSLY!!! Stop crashing the fuck into things. I'll give you some leeway on the damn pipe breaking, and it being under the sea, but stop sabotaging your own efforts!
As has been said many times before, operations at those depths are vastly complicated. It's not one guy with a joystick controlling the robot while eating nacho chips and drinking beer.
Seriously someone make a photoshop or shitty gif of the english goalie greene trying to block the pipe. It has to exist somewhere.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/06/23/pensacola.beach.oil/index.html?hpt=T2
I was fine with how BP was handling this situation until this point. I understand that it is difficult to perform operations that far down. But this really pushes it over the edge they should be competent enough not to fuck up the one thing that is at least working a little bit.
It looks like this
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still can't get the containment to work?
no dat on the releif well?
whats a good solution?
DRILL SOMEWHERE ELSE EVEN MORE RISKY!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/us/24rig.html
It's like they're playing a video game, and feel completely removed from any and all consequences.
Sim Oil Tycoon.
Except some goon forgot to turn off the disaster events.
I grew up there. I'm sad now.
"DAMNIT We're going to go out on that beach and enjoy it, I paid $2000 for this vacation and we're going to use it to it's fullest, even if that means Jimmy goes swimming in the god damned oil!"
More like turned them on to a high degree actually. Maybe they think they're off, but they're obviously not. See that picture of the coast for evidence.
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Goddammit, I wanted to see those white sands.
From a few pages back, because I am slow at reading this thread, don't know if anyone addressed this.
We also use natural gas and oil to make the fertilizers that we use to grow our food. So increasing gas price does in fact directly correlate to increased food costs.
Here, a graph.
BP found a better video game player and the cap's back on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqPF9dtCc9g
edit: makes no sense, i hope its fake
Methane levels in Gulf up to 1 million times normal levels
This is exactly the kind of shit I was worried about weeks ago. So much for even being able to grow anything down here now.
I don't even think I can feel anything anymore. I'm emotionally exhausted.
It'll be fine. All we have to do is learn what kind of crops they grow on Venus, and start planting those.
So, playing Murphey's Law here, how long until the sewer explodes?
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The free market will naturally produce the best oil spill clean-up efforts ever. If you contract it out, contractors will compete to be the best at oil spill clean-up, and you'll get cheap, effective clean-ups. It's basic free market economics! It worked in Iraq didn't it?
What the fuck?
Pshaw. 'Clean up this nightmare'. That's hard work, you know?
BP is moving forward, not getting quagmired in the past. I mean, the spill's already more than a month old. It's time to stop getting hung-up on this whole 'leak' business. I've got two words for you: Yacht Race.
Plus, there's new opportunity to be found off the Alaskan coast, where there isn't all this 'regulation' nonsense. Who wants to deal with plugging up holes when you can go drill new ones?
Soon NASA's going to have to cut back the resolution an order of magnitude or two to get the thing in frame.