Comments on: Coast Guard's New Plan to Contain the Gulf Oil Spill: Light It on Fire

By: Charity Ryneer

Charity Ryneer — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:10:34 +0000

In June, with critics comparing the Gulf to Hurricane Katrina, Obama announced the “British Petroleum” oil spill the “worst environmental disaster the US has ever faced”. America’s grubby politicians, green-lobby tub-thumpers, compensation claimants and their mega-bucks lawyers went completely ballistic every night on prime-time TV. However with more than 4,000 oil wells in the Gulf, the ecosystem is used to seepage, the light oil dissipated quickly in its warm waters, and powerful currents from the enormous Mississippi Delta swept much of it away from the shore. Today the pristine beaches are back to normal but Obama’s poisonous remarks have wiped £45 billion off the value of BP, damaged millions of US and UK pensions, and wrecked the tourist trade.

By: Edmond Apassingok

Edmond Apassingok — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:37:01 +0000

What if you build a pipe about 2 to 3 inches smaller than the leaking pipe in diameter from the original hole of the leaking pipe. But, at the front end of the smaller pipe you make/build a thick rubber or of similar material that can be inserted into the leaking pipe, at least 20 feet long until it is about the same width as the hole of the leakage. At the front end of the smaller pipe, you built in and inflatable balloon like material that can be inflated after it has been inserted safely well into the leak. And a fail -safe bladder that can also be right behind, about, 3 to 5 inches near the front inflated material. (balloon) The balloon could be around at least 6 inches long built around the smaller pipe. These bladders could be inflated with compressed air or air lines to the boats above. The air lines could be built in, in or around the smaller pipe, whichever is more adequate. After it is safely inserted the bladders could be inflated and all the leaking oil should be captured in this new inserted line and at the other end of this new pipe could be a coupling/threaded pipe to wherever it needs to be diverted too. (tankers above) I do not have a website.
Sincerely,
Edmond Apassingok
PO Box 151
Gambell, Alaska 99742
907 985-5836

By: Marc Szabo

Marc Szabo — Thu, 13 May 2010 23:36:49 +0000

What if you cut a large hole in the bottom of an old oil tanker. Put containers full of cement on the deck to help weigh it down. Sink the tanker over the blow hole. Pump out the water and let it fill with the oil. Have pipe lead from the tanker to the surface. I know this is simplistic…..

By: Inventor2008

Inventor2008 — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:37:28 +0000

1) Use ultra sonic sound waves to channel the oil spills to one area for collection
2)Use high absorbent corrugated material to absorb the oil
3) Use real submarines to use vacuum pumps with water /oil separators to remove the oil
4) Use US Navy Carriers fitted with vacuum pumps
5) Use high energy lasers to disintegrate the large spills
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Containment and Pickup of Submerged Oil

By: Scientist

Scientist — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:43:16 +0000

Light the crude of fire. It is the best solution. We’ll get soot, carbon monoxide/dioxide, organic compounds, and nitric oxides. It is certainly better than trying to wipe clean every bird, ocean creature, and beach in the area with Dawn and Palmolive.

Boil the ocean? Allison’s statement is quite possibly the most asinine thing I’ve ever heard. The U.S. education system will be the death of this country – to many bleeding hearts and not enough reason.

By: Knife Knut

Knife Knut — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:23:47 +0000

Setting fire to the oil will not boil the ocean. More animals would be killed if the oil is allowed to reach shore unchecked. Along with their own biodiversity, coastal marshes are nurserys to many immature ocean animals.

By: Allison

Allison — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:26:45 +0000

Okay, well what i think is that this disaster that is coming to America is really big but, setting the oil on fire is a bad idea. Everyone is talking about how we need to save the environment needs to be saved but, all setting the water on fire is going to do is have the water that the government is putting on fire will, start to boil and, then go deep into the Ocean and kill all of those poor insistent sea animals. So what we people of the United States of America are going to do is punish some poor sea animal for a ignorant mistake we did.

By: dale

dale — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:17:43 +0000

PAVE PARADISE AND PUT UP A PARKING LOT!
Oil profits are Much more important than our ecology system.
“I shall bring to ruin, those ruining the earth”. Psalms
This society is sick, sick, sick….and managed by complete morons.
Sorry to bother you. Go back to your TV.
The Professor

By: MATTHIAS KOSA

MATTHIAS KOSA — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:30:04 +0000

Dear Specialist,

We have a plan oil spill pick up – and environment rescue.

Need scrap tire ring and milling.

We can that what is the solution.

Good kuck.

Respectfully: Kosa

KOSA-JET-ENERGY Instrument and Waste Utilization LP:

from HUNGARY CE.

C-R-T.S.

4/28/2010

By: ChH

ChH — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:39:56 +0000

Counting down to someone saying the climate change caused by releasing carbon dioxide by burning the oil slick means that we should allow it to gunk up the beaches of the GoM instead…