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June 16, 2010 Heard that the relief wells will not work because there is no casing and the only other option is using nukes. What if the Nukes make it larger?

Releif Well:
Drilling a releif well near the Gulf Oil spill is like a high wire act without a net.

Relief wells are something that, fortunately, engineers don't have to do very often. Drilling the relief well also can be fraught with challenges -- especially working in deep water on a well that has already had problems with gas bubbles. You have to hit something the size of a dinner plate miles into the earth

Hurricane:
69 percent chance that at least one major hurricane will make landfall on the U.S. and a 44 percent chance that a major hurricane will hit the Gulf

Dispersants:
Chemical dispersants change the chemical and physical properties of oil, essentially breaking up oil that is congealed at the surface, and sending oil droplets down into the water column. (By dispersing oil into deeper waters, away from human eyes, dispersants can also have the welcome public relations effect of making the spill appear smaller). The primary objective of chemical dispersants is to avoid sending oil slicks into the nearshore marine environment. We know from years of studies following the Exxon Valdez disaster that oil can persist in sediments for decades and can lead to long-term impacts to generations and generations of fish, shrimp, and crabs that rely on coastal habitat, so it makes sense that we do our best to keep oil from reaching the nearshore environment. Additional goals include reducing impacts to mammals and birds that are vulnerable to floating oil slicks and encouraging bacteria to degrade the oil.

That being said, the use of chemical dispersants is a trade-off. It is an explicit decision to weigh impacts to mammals, birds, and coastal habitat over impacts to fish and invertebrates, and possibly bottom organisms. In other words, it may be the lesser of two evils in some circumstances. dispersants, a cocktail of organic solvents and detergents, had never been used at the depth of BP's well before, and no one really knows how they interact physically and chemically under pressure with oil, water and gases.

"On the surface they're very readily or actively used and their behavior is well understood. That's not the case at all with their use in the subsurface and especially at a mile deep,
the contaminants -- which could eventually be pushed onto the continental shelf before shifting slowly down toward the Florida Keys and possibly out to the open Atlantic Ocean -- raised troubling questions about whether they would "cascade up the food web."

The threat is that they will poison plankton and fish larvae before making their way into animals higher up the food chain
the contaminants -- which could eventually be pushed onto the continental shelf before shifting slowly down toward the Florida Keys and possibly out to the open Atlantic Ocean -- raised troubling questions about whether they would "cascade up the food web."

The threat is that they will poison plankton and fish larvae before making their way into animals higher up the food chain
the contaminants -- which could eventually be pushed onto the continental shelf before shifting slowly down toward the Florida Keys and possibly out to the open Atlantic Ocean -- raised troubling questions about whether they would "cascade up the food web."

The threat is that they will poison plankton and fish larvae before making their way into animals higher up the food chain
the contaminants -- which could eventually be pushed onto the continental shelf before shifting slowly down toward the Florida Keys and possibly out to the open Atlantic Ocean -- raised troubling questions about whether they would "cascade up the food web."

The threat is that they will poison plankton and fish larvae before making their way into animals higher up the food chain
the contaminants -- which could eventually be pushed onto the continental shelf before shifting slowly down toward the Florida Keys and possibly out to the open Atlantic Ocean -- raised troubling questions about whether they would "cascade up the food web."

The threat is that they will poison plankton and fish larvae before making their way into animals higher up the food chain. The contaminants -- which could eventually be pushed onto the continental shelf before shifting slowly down toward the Florida Keys and possibly out to the open Atlantic Ocean -- raised troubling questions about whether they would "cascade up the food web."

The threat is that they will poison plankton and fish larvae before making their way into animals higher up the food chain

Fishing Ban
Nearly a third of the Gulf of Mexico -- 31 percent -- is off-limits to fishing because of the oil spill, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration announced June 1, 2010

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  • Ahhh, that's nice of the First Lady visted Florida, I wonder if she went swimming with her kids? I have a great idea she can bring back to her husband; why don't the Government pay all the people of Louisiana that have claims and the the Government can go after BP for the money !!!!! I mean they did a Trillion Dollar Bailout for the Bankers & sent 500 Billion to Europe that they, the federal Reserve (private corporation) refused to tell the Congress who received the money.

  • I am hearing that:

    The Oil you see at the top is only a small percent, most of the oil is underwater as plumes ranging in size of about 140 square miles

    Cap is just a Smoke & Mirror tactic. Cap is Holding back oil pushing oil out in other places of the Gulf like Cracks or Old Closed Wells

    Pressure is around 6700 psi, when it should be at 18,000 to 20,000 which means its leaking in other places

  • Nuclear underground blast will not make it bigger because contrary to layman views a contained underground nuclear explosion triggered near that well will smother it immediately and completely. Russians used it successfully a number of times to smother burning gas wells that no amount of water and chemicals could extinguish. And VERY little environmental damage would result (compared to spill itself)

    A shaft needs to be drilled on the bottom of the ocean though to house the bomb...

  • @dharmanova The Russian well was not in the sea, this well has several cracks in the sea bed, how would a nuke close all the cracks?

  • @dharmanova We should blame the Government for this Oil Leak Mess. They make laws in a snap under our noses overnight & enforce them on us. They print illegal money & hand it to Bankers. Why don't they print money for the People of Louisiana and then they can send British Petroleum the Bill? They won't do it because they are protecting BP

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  • money makes me sick.  it makes everyone sick.

  • it loads slow because the power that be don't want us to hear this. I swear this happens all the time on SHILL TUBE. Click on a video of a talking dog and you can watch in full 1080p realtime, but want to watch something serious, something against the establishment? nooo theres not enough bandwidth for THAT.... what a joke

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  • This video was made a year ago.At 4:00 there was this: The well could become an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf." People that said or believed that at the time were called all sorts of denigrating names,not the least of which was"terrorist" for spreading fear.Yet,it HAS become a gusher still spewing oil into the most pristine waters in the U.S. of A. And since the Major media have quit reporting on it, people think everything's fine and dandy.

  • This is an updated comment to the one I made 10 months ago regarding the

    effects of the fact that oil does NOT just evaporate. Well people,that covering

    of the ocean surface and F***ing up the normal earth and evaporation

    cycles as a result is SURE starting to show itself NOW !! THANKS BP,

    Federal Gov and Big Oil Bankers !! The onslaught of screwed up weather

    excessive numbers of tornadoes,etc, is "just a coincidence" right ???!!!

    Will the sheeple EVER wake up and stop buying the media BS?!

  • @1929spectre And it might be the last.

  • @hypercub emotions are stimulated physically via chemicals but emotions aren't physical materials.

  • @crystalidx Marial world, and materialistic things is (I'm pretty sure) all that exists in this world. Even emotions are material chemicals, so...I't kinda weird to hear word "materialistic" in negative conotation. Btw, Oscars will be soon, and I think "Kings Speech" should get it for Movie of the year.

  • @xXvenessaXx I don't want you feeling sick, so you can send all your money to me. I will sacrifice myself to make you feel better!

  • I'd love to see Obama and his whole family down there on a fishing boat and eat what comes straight from the gulf right there and then.

  • NIOSH Report of Deepwater Horizon Response/Unified Area Command Illness and Injury Data

    Injuries: First Aid cases 958; OSHA-recordable cases 175

    Illnesses: First Aid cases 888; OSHA-recordable cases 106

    Command: *HOUMA 1352; Mobile; 710; Houston/New Orleans 15; Source 37

    OSHA, BP and USCG are to scatter the real records to the wind because none of them want to do the leagl or goto court.BP pulls security access; of any one who tried to prevent hurt Houma document wrong done.$recordTXOSHA6has

  • @crystalidx Good Comment. Yeap, the New World Order counts on these people to keep them in Power.

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