Hundred-Ton Dome To Collect Oil Spill

eldavojohn writes "After failing to contain the Gulf oil spill any other way, a massive containment dome had the finishing touches put on yesterday. It amounts to a giant concrete-and-steel box made by Wild Well Control that is designed to siphon the crude oil away from the water. They expect an 85 percent collection with this device. It's not a pretty situation as Google Earth illustrates."

Re:85%

[houstonbofh]

But look on the bright side. Jersey Shore can now have crude oil wrestling!

American Chernobyl

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't understand why they can't just bury it under 100 tons of concrete.

And that structure looks nothing like a dome.


Does't the oil business have contingency plans for this kind of thing?! And companies that specialize in this kind of work?! America is filling the Gulf with FAIL.

D'ome!

[JustOK]

They tried it on Springfield.

Re:This thread is worthless without pics

[dunezone]

No need to tie Velcro shoes.

Re:Man.

[eln]

If this doesn't work, their next option is to wall off the Gulf of Mexico, drain the water, and let the entire thing fill with oil like a gigantic bathtub. Then, we'll get a bunch of old hippies together, throw in a giant effigy, light the whole thing on fire, and have the best Burning Man festival ever!

Re:This thread is worthless without pics

[T Murphy]

No need to tie Velcro shoes.

But you can still try.

Re:Good luck with that

[Sponge Bath]

1 mile = 9.96 * 10^37 Planck Lengths for those who are insane, physicists, or both.

Re:what are the chemical dispersants?

[MightyMartian]

Soap + undisclosed proprietary chemicals that are known to bio-accumulate. It will be nice having that enter the food chain.

Meet you at Red Lobster!

Re:what are the chemical dispersants?

[Just Some Guy]

The average survival time for a cleaned bird is 1-5 days, from the last data I have seen.

You misread the report. "Cleaned bird" is the internal code name for a line of Seagate hard drives.

Re:You won't mind if I poop in your yard, then?

[ArcherB]

Who pays for the mistakes? Who pays for the environmental impact? If BP were forced to shoulder the entire cost of this mistake, they would go bankrupt. And so, as usual, it is the rest of us who will have to pay. Socialism for the rich, paid for by the poor.

If you and I lived next to each other, and I ran a pipe from my toilet into your yard, you would be pretty pissed off, wouldn't you? You'd probably demand I stop shitting in your yard. And I would say, "Human civilization can not exist without environmental impact, shit happens, get over your knee jerk reaction and get used to it, hippie."

If your shit would power my car, I'd welcome it!

Re:Simpsons Did It......

[eleuthero]

unless... Bill Clinton and others are successful in their campaign to change the restrictions on the presidency... and if we see Taco Bell buy out all the other restaurants in the US, you'll know where we're headed.

Re:And - It WORKS!!!!

[Ironhandx]

I'm far enough away from this whole thing that I *almost* want the failure analysis engineering team to deem it necessary to either seal it or burn the reserves via nuke.

Re:Fun things to watch - you forgot Fault Creep

[meekg]

0) "It's not leaking"
1) "It wasn't us"
2) "It's just one mistake"
3) "The media is making it all worse"

4) (still pending) "It's because the liberals hate nukes"

I'm glad you are concentrating on what's important.