On 05-27-10, BOB ACKLEY said to ROSS CASSELL:


EC>> or c) his belief that having an extra switch to trigger the blowout
EC>> protector would do any good when the hydraulics on the blowout
EC>> protector failed.


RC> Did you see his suggestionthat they merely pipe liquid nitrogen down
RC> there to create a "ice plug"?


BA>I suppose that's possible...


BA>However, I've no idea how much it would cost to run a *heavily insulated*
BA>pipe large enough to move the required amount of liquified nitrogen in the
BA>time required to do it, from the surface down to the problem, and I don't
BA>know how much it would cost to fill that pipe with liquid nitrogen (before
BA>you can pump the stuff onto the problem).  I suspect neither is chump
BA>change.  Then, of course, there's the continuing problem of keeping that
BA>ice plug frozen...


I wonder why they don't lower a large, bell-shaped structure to the leak, and
channel the spewing oil up to the surface and into a waiting tanker?


Instead of letting it just spread all over as it comes out down there, and
instead of trying to `plug' it, why not `channel' its direction of flow, and
make that channeling of direction the surface where it can be loaded up?


My biggest wonder is that, they had the technology and expertise to `locate' a
spot to drill that deep, had the technology to get the drill bits down there
and do the drilling........but had no successful plan to fall back on in the
event that something went wrong.


My thought is the technology hasn't developed far enough safety-wise for
anyone, anywhere in the world, to be drilling that deep.


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