Guard watches coast for oil slick's first wave

lol so true


I kid you not, I had this one numb-nut at the bar tell me "we should nuke it, turn the seabed into glass and be done with it."

:doh:

Please don't misrepresent my words. This is not a trivial exercise. HOWEVER, the motivation to put resources towards being the company that develops a solution increases as the time goes on.

Misrepresent your words? Huh? I merely expanded on the subject.

Misrepresent your words? Huh? I merely expanded on the subject.

Gotcha. Sorry.

I kid you not, I had this one numb-nut at the bar tell me "we should nuke it, turn the seabed into glass and be done with it."

:doh:A bit more complicated than "turn the seabed to glass" but an option that should be investigated if it has a track record of success. At this point no option should be off the table.

YouTube - Nuke the oil spill: Could nuclear bomb be answer for huge leaks as at US Gulf coast?

Use nukes to contain the oil spill (http://www.oil-price.net/en/articles/use-nukes-to-contain-the-oil-spill.php)

Russian paper suggests ‘nuclear explosion’ could cap gulf oil geyser | Raw Story (http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0504/russian-paper-suggests-nuclear-explosion-cut-gulf-oil-geyser/)

This is like a really, really bad nightmare that just won't end. I hope BP goes out of business after all of this. They certainly deserve to.I agree with you, but let's hope it's after they've paid every last dime to clean the damage and compensate the victims.

Analysts: BP's $70B loss overdone - Jun. 1, 2010 (http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/01/news/companies/BP_analysts/index.htm)

Sure makes that $ 500K acoustic device look a lot more cost effective now.

take a deep breath and sit down for this first, i have some earth shattering news for you:

The private sector does not have the answer for everything.

double take

A bit more complicated than "turn the seabed to glass" but an option that should be investigated if it has a track record of success. At this point no option should be off the table.

YouTube - Nuke the oil spill: Could nuclear bomb be answer for huge leaks as at US Gulf coast? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ojCbqfRRr8)

Use nukes to contain the oil spill (http://www.oil-price.net/en/articles/use-nukes-to-contain-the-oil-spill.php)

Russian paper suggests ‘nuclear explosion’ could cap gulf oil geyser | Raw Story (http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0504/russian-paper-suggests-nuclear-explosion-cut-gulf-oil-geyser/)

Anybody on TV has an idea of how to stop the leak, dag

Maybe not, but with the right motivation the private sector very often finds a workable solution. In this case, clearly with govt support, there are several motivating factors for a private sector oil leader to come up with a solution. 1) if a company makes a breakthrough and finds a creative, effective way to end this, they get HIGH Publicity and advertising capital for their company. 2) if the solution is patent-able, they could make a profit by their design. 3) the company that stops it, if BP were to throw up their hands, would have an upper hand in the foreseeable future of deep sea drilling.

IF, and I don't believe this will be the case, it goes unstopped till August, this will be the equivalent to deepsea drilling that 3-Mile island was to Nuclear energy in this country.

Of course it does. In fact, the private sector is likely to have 1) more flexibility and 2) greater ability to "think outside the box" in looking for solutions. On the other hand, the private sector probably does not have the spectrum of resources that government entities have. I do not doubt that the public sector can marshall more and broader information (including wide ranges of specialists) and manpower (in the short term) than the private sector and, conversely that application of those resources can be done more efficiently and with more innovation by the private sector.

Mustering large amounts of short term manpower & gathering information (mundane and specialized) and specialists across a broad spectrum of knowledge? Public Sector.

Applying those resources and information to find new and innovative solutions? Private Sector.

Obviously, this is an oversimplification and the devil is in the details. But step one in finding a solution is recognizing what each group does well.

double take

Oh.- You mean you are surprised when you're neat little over simplifications and sweeping generalities actually paint an inaccurate picture? You must walk around with a constant look of shock on your face.

Oh.- You mean you are surprised when you're neat little over simplifications and sweeping generalities actually paint an inaccurate picture? You must walk around with a constant look of shock on your face.

You get a win. U win the battle. Rummy