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Tonight on 360°, we share some of your suggestions to stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. BP and others aren't having much luck. Maybe your idea can solve the mess. Plus, a new controversy for Arizona after the governor signs a new bill. We also take you inside the battle for Afghanistan with author and journalist Sebastian Junger. That's tonight's 'Big 360° Interview'.
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I dont believe they are trying to stop it, they are trying to save it so the can still get to the oil.
What is BP thinking? Tires and golf balls contain rubber.
They are made using oil products. Rubber products are destroyed by oil unless treated during manufactiring processes to be resistant to oil.
I don't think we should pay for higher gas prices for this spill. Can we as the little people sue BP for jacking up gas prices because of this oil spill.
I agree, Steve....those two spokesmen were pushing all sorts of buttons and not letting the other even speak....how does that lead to resolving problems? It only accelerates them like gas on a fire.
CEO's Before Congress\ The Sleepy Weasel Defence
Yes, I'm a Harvard M.B.A.
Yes, as the company C.E.O. I make $450 million per year.
No, I'm not responsible for this fiasco because I have no idea how my company is being run.
Nothing has changed since Jeff Skilling testified before congress.
i would bomb the area around that hole, so that the pressure would close it like a bodybuilders anus
Suggestion for Oil Leak
The same way planes are fueled in mid-air, a hose can be lowered to the leak and have it sucked in.
Did anyone suspect this man was on the edge?
Instead of stopping the oil leak, how about diverting it. A mile-long tube could bring the oil to the surface then diverted elsewhere (into oil tankers, etc).
I just don't think that they ever had a backup plan for a disaster like this.. They said that they did ,,but I think that they lied. Could there be other rigs out there like sitting time bombs waiting to blow a cap?
These guys are trying to plug a toilet, not stop an oil leak.
what would u do if it was thousands of gallons of money leaking out into the ocean? Wait!! it is, fix the problem, its been a month
Why not try what already works, pump in a fast reaction polyurathene the same as you would if a tunnel or below ground structure leaked.............
Why not funnel the leaking oil into somthing that can in fact pump the oil to the surface, filter it and put it into production
What about building a bypass valve/pipe reconnecting the two ends of the bursted pipe. In essence cutting out the problem.
Here in new england we use low heating thing to melt ICE off r roufs y can't that use that on the top hat thing and it's cheap to it would melt that ICE so they could pump it out
school massacre: this is insane! at a kindergarten school?
Why not some kind of upside down funnel. You have a pipe attached to your receptacle. You put an upside down funnel on the bottom and lower it over the oil vent. then patch as needed along the seam of the ocean floor and the funnel.
They said the "house" didn't work in stopping the oil because the ice crystals that were forming. Couldn't we shoot liquid nitrogen or something down and freeze the leak shut?
Catheter – Heavy duty catheter shoved into the pipe and expanded with water pressure or compressed air?
I love John Vause 🙂 he's great i love accents 🙂
Regarding oil leak, assuming pipe is metal, would heavy or powerful magnets fill pipe and stop or slow leak?
How about using a gas that can form a plug by freezing around the leak this can hold the oil until an other type of housing can be installed. I hope this can help.
we have real deal green solution to capture the oil on the water-all natural and creating family wage supporting jobs
its on you tube
Show Me Energy Coop-Mo
Lower a long vacuum hose to suck up the contaminated oil & water to the surface filtering the water back into the Ocean and trapping and recycling the oil... golf balls..seriously?
they could use a rubber pond liner to wrap the pipe to slow leak like duck tape and then cover with steel.
they could use rice and grease like bacon grease I heard the will clog pipes very effectively. good luck
Another school Masscure!
Good to see Joh Vause....another Great reporter.
What a tragic story.
Mill a steel core to stop the oil leak. Mill it from smaller to larger than the oil line.
Goes to show China is doing something wrong .
What is with people killing kids in China? Isn't this the fifth in two months?
As a person that has experience in explosives there is no reason why at the top of the Blow Out Preventer a shaped charge could not be placed and the pipe leading from the top pf the preventer be squeezed together which will stop the oil and with the correct use of other chemicals the top of the pipe could be welded together and a perminte seal formed. This is not the first time this type of accident has happened the only difference is the depth of the water and there are research and salvage subs capable of sealing the well instead of fulling around with ideas that will possibly let BP and by the way that name is a British company not an american oil company wanting to salvage the well if possible!!
Lower the large dome back over pipe. The piping that was going to be used for the dome to the tankers, pressurize that pipe with air blowing all the water out. Pipe liquid nitrogen which is 340-360 degrees below zero down that pipe filling the dome with liquid nitrogen. Continue piping liquid nitrogen down until you freeze the well head. This means hauling liquid nitrogen in large volumes out to the well by barges or tankers. Once the well head is frozen keep a blanket of liquid nitrogen on it until a new well can be drilled and the pressure relieved.
Could you use a expandable bladder bag in the tube to choke iot off
The US Navy has the ability to implode the well. Then a concrete cap could be put on it. A new relief well can then be drilled. It can't do much damage than has already been caused. Why hasn't this solution been considered?
A variant of the inflatable rubber bladders used to clear out drain pipes could be used. Insert the bladder into the well and fill with pressurized concrete. With careful design, the bladder could probably be built with a valve to allow further oil extraction after repair.
Yes, Tyler, you're right....that's a big difference. You can't just selectively 'enlighten' one group and then expect the outcome in the larger culture to be a good one.
Terrible story coming out of China. What would drive someone to that?
What about a balloon type device that will inflate once placed deep in the pipe or hole.
Wax! See the video on youtube titled 'Mini Oil Spill Cleanup Demo using Wax!! – CTV`s Canada AM' Seems to work!
What about dropping thousands of fruit cakes on the well? They are the densest material known to man.
If these guys are this incabable of coming up with a solution. Publish the specifications of what we're dealing with so the engineers and inventors of this country like myself can solve the problem. If the pressures, dimensional scan/pictures/blueprints are published, I give it 3 days and someone will have a solution that will work. This is what we do, bring in the right people.
Great show tonight — I've been hoping to see some talk on how to stop the leak. And while it's nice to see the lay speculation, I'd love to hear from the Army Corps of Engineers or other oil well experts. I'm no engineer — liberal arts major here! — but it seems like all the proposed suggetions rely on overcoming the massive pressure that must be forcing the oil out of the pipe. Maybe there's some way to reduce that by changing the water temperature or density? Surely some science guys out there can explain the theory end of this problem in terms lay people like me can grasp.
If oil rises, why not make a dome to lower over the area of the leak? You could also attach a hose to pump some of the collected oil out and onto a ship.
Why don't they make a few relief valves in the pipe that they can later cover (because this time they can prepare for it) that takes the pressure off the one that is leaking to make it easier to stop the massive pressure. Then cap the one that is currently leaking. Then all quit their jobs because they should all be ashamed of themselves.
Good question Anderson, if any student can take the courses, then they are not as Mr. Horne says being foisted on only those students of one ethnic background. I don't think there was any part of Michael Eric Dyson's arguement that was "race obsessed," he was talking about teaching history and political issues as completely as possible. There may be questions about how teachers teach a subject though, if a teacher is only teaching one pt of vw to the exclusion of all others that could be a breach of academic discipline. That would certainly be concern for school admin, but I don't think that needs to be addressed by the law such as I've just seen its main pts presented.
Put a strong rubber balloon inside the oil tube. Inflate the balloon with air. Put a metal grate in front of the tube, so the balloon can't be pushed out of it.
With all the technology we have in America, it is amazing how we havent been able to come up with an efficient solution of this crisis...
The government should ask for help to scientists around the globe. We need that spill to stop now!
Let's hope that we learn from this disaster how to better handle another one if it should happen again. All of our major energy sources... oil, coal, natural gas and nuclear...... carry a risk of disaster but there is no way that wind and solar can supply our energy at this time.
210,000 gallons per day. Just awful. But wow, the hay pictures were very interesting! It certainly did absorb the oil there. After it forms the heavier balls of oil I wonder if the hay would work?
I agree that the lack of preparation for the possibility of a catastrophic occurence is appalling. It seems that alot of research and planning should have been done just for these types of situations.
I'd be curious too, Sharon Hastings. On the one thing, I would hope that increased understanding (which goes way beyond who did what....but why and also in what larger context) would be a growth-promoting experience for all. On the other hand, if it is taught such that it leads to an 'Us and Them' thinking, then it just divides people even more than ever. Not what we need. I think the way it's taught and by whom would have a huge impact on outcome.