Dr Reese Halter - MSNBC - BP Oil Spill - Long Straw for Containment

[naturesblueprint]

I dunno, people are pretending there is nothing wrong with it. It's heading for the 3rd largest coral reefs on the globe. Whata nightmare! Dr Reese

[Dogonwear]

why do people keep asking what the affects of the dispersant will be.... we already know!!! What a smack in the face to the people who suffered thru the 1989 ordeal in Alaska.....

[1236bigcat]

So they finally got a 4" pipe in a rushing stream of a 12" pipe. I'm far from postively impressed with such a seemingly trifling success.

The volume of a 12" pipe is 1,356 cubic inches per foot. The volume of a 4" pipe is 151 cubic inches per foot. Assuming equal pressures in both pipes, they should manage to get only 1/9th of the oil flow, like holding a soda straw in the mouth of a 1" water pipe.

[worldsailor128]

@1236bigcat

Its actually 21" dia from every report I have seen

[1236bigcat]

@worldsailor128 Pressure difference between the oil chamber and outlet pipe is est. 5,960psi. (geopressure) Sailor you know hydraulics. Fluids push evenly across every square inch the same, travels through even tiny holes. The pipe has leaking joints in tubes, also the single plug below is faulty. The holes get cut bigger like a jet. A 12" pipe outflow 113sq in x 5,960psi = 336 tons hydraulic force pushing up on 12" round. =^.^= The bore hole's maybe 21". Bigger is worse!

[1236bigcat]

@worldsailor128 My research: Proposed 'Top Kill 30,000 horsepower pumps through 3" hoses and through "choke" valves at bottom of BOP near seafloor and valves could shoot as much as 40 barrels/minute into the well.

Problem may then be that the seal for the 16" tapered liner may have given way as the main port for fluid escape. Both are located shallow in well and top kill with heavy mud in the hole alone will be insufficient to hold the fluids back - maybe quick-crete?