On 06/03/2010 02:15 PM, Dave Drum -> All wrote:
 DD> Note to Hulet, Richardson, Croasmun and the rest of the "not
invented here"
 DD> bunch - pay particular attention to the last paragraph.

 DD> BP has received at least 38,000 unconventional ideas from around the
 DD> world to
 DD> stop the oil leak, including the use of oil-eating bacteria around the
 DD> pipe and
 DD> absorbing the oil with tons of human hair. Director James Cameron, known
 DD> for
 DD> disaster movies like "Titanic" and the underwater thrill
"The Abyss", is
 DD> also
 DD> sitting in on brainstorming sessions to come up with a creative
 DD> solutions for
 DD> plugging the pipe. Cameron has even offered use of a fleet of small,
 DD> remote-controlled submarines that were used in his movies.

 DD> Peter Kemp, editor of Energy Intelligence, says BP won't necessarily
 DD> dismiss
 DD> these out of hand. "I'm sure BP is looking at every single idea, trying
 DD> to sift
 DD> through and evaluate the best strategy to adopt next given the terrible
 DD> failure
 DD> rate hitherto."

 DD> Perhaps the most alarming idea to reach the oil company was a nuclear
 DD> explosion
 DD> over the wellhead, a method which has worked in Russia. BP says it has
 DD> no plans
 DD> to use a nuclear explosion as a solution to the crisis.

None of the nuke blasts Russia used were a mile under the sea.

Ed

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