DD>>Note to Hulet, Richardson, Croasmun and the rest of the "not invented
DD>>here" bunch - pay particular attention to the last paragraph.

 TR> Note to the slow-minded:

DD>>BP has received at least 38,000 unconventional ideas from around the world
DD>>to stop the oil leak, including the use of oil-eating bacteria around the

 TR> No doubt ideas from all over poured in, ad infinitum!
 ...
 TR> ocean. I have to wonder how many ideas the
 TR> 5000-feet-beneath-the-sea-oil-drilling experts like Drum,
 TR> Lewis, Otto, Chirnside, Klahn (and don't forget Wilson)
 TR> phioned in to them.

 How many such ideas have you seen from any of us? One, buy
 Wayne, who acknowledged his wouldn't work as  soon as the error
 in technology was pointed out to him. Not by anyone on the
 right, you may have noticed.

 ...

 TR> At that depth they might get a structure over the spewing
 TR> pipe to capture the oil `there' (as I suggested), which at
 TR> least might be a `start'.

 As I pointed out that was one of the first things they tried.
 Now they have tried again, this time with some apparent success.

 TR> By the way........I just heard on the news that they have
 TR> finally managed to lower some sort of `containment' bell
 TR> over the leak, and will be directing much of that spewing
 TR> oil to a waiting tanker on the surface.

 Yep.

 TR> Gosh.......didn't I suggest something like that a few days
 TR> ago?

 Some time after the first time they tried it.



BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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