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Luis Taylor
Jun 20, 2010, 8:49:05 PM6/20/10
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Chipper: Unfortunately, you are probably right.... this is turning out to be the worst environemntal distater, a prelude to Armageddon?
Louie
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From: Rafael Santos <chipp...@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM
Subject: Fw: Engineer's view on BP Oil Spill.
To: "Dr. Louie Taylor" <piano...@gmail.com>
When will the crude oil reach the shores of Boracay?
Chipper_san
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Iloilo City
From: Rafael Santos <chipp...@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM
Subject: Fw: Engineer's view on BP Oil Spill.
To: "Dr. Louie Taylor" <piano...@gmail.com>
When will the crude oil reach the shores of Boracay?
Chipper_san
Iloilo City
Snoped this but nothing on this issue. Just sharing this to you as it may
carry some merit.
If the engineer’s assessment of the ongoing disaster created by the continuous spewing of oil in the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s collapsed oil rig is accurate, a doomsday scenario is quite evident.
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"Heard your mention of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico this morning, and you (and most everyone else except maybe George Noory) are totally missing the boat on how big and bad of a disaster this is.
First fact, the original estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day spilling into the ocean. Now they're saying 200,000 gallons a day. That's over a million gallons of crude oil a week!
I'm an engineer with 25 years of experience. I've worked on some big projects with big machines. Maybe that's why this mess is so clear to me.
First, the BP platform was drilling for what they call deep oil. They go out where the ocean is about 5,000 feet deep and drill another 30,000 feet into the crust of the earth. This it right on the edge of what human technology can do. Well, this time they hit a pocket of oil at such high pressure that it burst all of their safety valves all the way up to the drilling rig and then caused the rig to explode and sink. Take a moment to grasp the import of that. The pressure behind this oil is so high that it destroyed the maximum effort of human science to contain it.
When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill hole some 5,000 feet under the ocean.
Now they've got a hole in the ocean floor, 5,000 feet down with a wrecked oil drilling rig sitting on top of is spewing 200,000 barrels of oil a day into the ocean. Take a moment and consider that, will you!
First they have to get the oil rig off the hole to get at it in order to try to cap it. Do you know the level of effort it will take to move that wrecked oil rig, sitting under 5,000 feet of water? That operation alone would take years and hundreds of millions to accomplish. Then, how do you cap that hole in the muddy ocean floor? There just is no way. No way.
The only piece of human technology that might address this is a nuclear bomb. I'm not kidding. If they put a nuke down there in the right spot it might seal up the hole. Nothing short of that will work.
If we can't cap that hole that oil is going to destroy the oceans of the world. It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of ocean water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to get the magnitude of this?
We're so used to our politicians creating false crises to forward their criminal agendas that we aren't recognizing that we're staring straight into possibly the greatest disaster mankind will ever see. Imagine what happens if that oil keeps flowing until it destroys all life in the oceans of this planet. Who knows how big of a reservoir of oil is down there.
Not to mention that the oceans are critical to maintaining the proper oxygen level in the atmosphere for human life.
We're humped. Unless God steps in and fixes this. No human can. You can be sure of that!
If the engineer’s assessment of the ongoing disaster created by the continuous spewing of oil in the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s collapsed oil rig is accurate, a doomsday scenario is quite evident.
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"Heard your mention of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico this morning, and you (and most everyone else except maybe George Noory) are totally missing the boat on how big and bad of a disaster this is.
First fact, the original estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day spilling into the ocean. Now they're saying 200,000 gallons a day. That's over a million gallons of crude oil a week!
I'm an engineer with 25 years of experience. I've worked on some big projects with big machines. Maybe that's why this mess is so clear to me.
First, the BP platform was drilling for what they call deep oil. They go out where the ocean is about 5,000 feet deep and drill another 30,000 feet into the crust of the earth. This it right on the edge of what human technology can do. Well, this time they hit a pocket of oil at such high pressure that it burst all of their safety valves all the way up to the drilling rig and then caused the rig to explode and sink. Take a moment to grasp the import of that. The pressure behind this oil is so high that it destroyed the maximum effort of human science to contain it.
When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill hole some 5,000 feet under the ocean.
Now they've got a hole in the ocean floor, 5,000 feet down with a wrecked oil drilling rig sitting on top of is spewing 200,000 barrels of oil a day into the ocean. Take a moment and consider that, will you!
First they have to get the oil rig off the hole to get at it in order to try to cap it. Do you know the level of effort it will take to move that wrecked oil rig, sitting under 5,000 feet of water? That operation alone would take years and hundreds of millions to accomplish. Then, how do you cap that hole in the muddy ocean floor? There just is no way. No way.
The only piece of human technology that might address this is a nuclear bomb. I'm not kidding. If they put a nuke down there in the right spot it might seal up the hole. Nothing short of that will work.
If we can't cap that hole that oil is going to destroy the oceans of the world. It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of ocean water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to get the magnitude of this?
We're so used to our politicians creating false crises to forward their criminal agendas that we aren't recognizing that we're staring straight into possibly the greatest disaster mankind will ever see. Imagine what happens if that oil keeps flowing until it destroys all life in the oceans of this planet. Who knows how big of a reservoir of oil is down there.
Not to mention that the oceans are critical to maintaining the proper oxygen level in the atmosphere for human life.
We're humped. Unless God steps in and fixes this. No human can. You can be sure of that!
skip....@gmail.com
Jun 20, 2010, 8:52:54 PM6/20/10
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Doc Louie Taylor:
Are the BP guys now in a position to ascertain how many years of "clean up" will be involved?
Later,
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Are the BP guys now in a position to ascertain how many years of "clean up" will be involved?
Later,
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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:49:05 -0700
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GLT
Jun 20, 2010, 9:26:39 PM6/20/10
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Hello Skip:
The BP guys are not really the best people to ask as they have
the incentive to downplay the disaster and avoid future damages which
are already immense.
Based on previous oil spills, especially in Alaska where the Exxon
Valdez incident occurred, until today, there is loss of livelihood
among the people, extensive marine biological toxicities,
altered and decimated species and the human risks of cancer,
illness , etc. The only choice is for policy makers to go to
renewable energy, an uphill battle bec. of politics and special
interersts. So there will never be any real clean up for
centuries.
Louie
On Jun 20, 5:52 pm, skip.syl...@gmail.com wrote:
> Doc Louie Taylor:
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> Are the BP guys now in a position to ascertain how many years of "clean up" will be involved?
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> Later,
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> Chipper: Unfortunately, you are probably right.... this is turning out
> to be the worst environemntal distater, a prelude to Armageddon?
>
> Louie
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rafael Santos <chipper_...@yahoo.com>
> Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM
> Subject: Fw: Engineer's view on BP Oil Spill.
> To: "Dr. Louie Taylor" <pianoma...@gmail.com>
>
> When will the crude oil reach the shores of Boracay?
>
> Chipper_san
>
> Iloilo City
>
> Chipper: Unfortunately, you are probably right.... this is turning out
> to be the worst environemntal distater, a prelude to Armageddon?
>
> Louie
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rafael Santos <chipper_...@yahoo.com>
> Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM
> Subject: Fw: Engineer's view on BP Oil Spill.
> To: "Dr. Louie Taylor" <pianoma...@gmail.com>
>
> When will the crude oil reach the shores of Boracay?
>
> Chipper_san
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> chipper_...@yahoo.com
skip....@gmail.com
Jun 20, 2010, 9:35:36 PM6/20/10
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Doc Louie:
Got your magic time frame: Centuries.
Not in our lifetime then . . .
Later,
skip
Got your magic time frame: Centuries.
Not in our lifetime then . . .
Later,
skip
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