The BBCasked readersto submit their ideas on how the Gulf oil disaster might be resolved . Iraj Ershaghi , USC ’s director of fossil oil technology , went down the inclination and in brief explained how each idea would fail . We ’re passably much doomed .
The 18 proposed solutions start the gamut , including some you ’ve heard of ( nuclear flack ; polystyrene beads ) and some you probably have n’t ( epoxy warhead ; umbrella pump ) . But what the solutions have in common is that they ’re not really solutions at all — Ershaghi does n’t see much Leslie Townes Hope for any of the idea , either because BP fail to put through them early enough to be effective or because they ’re just uneffective to begin with .
Some solutions , risky than just flunk to block up the oil leak , would exacerbate the office . Here ’s the summary , and Ershagi ’s dismission , of the epoxy payload option :
Epoxy might be a better top kill method than mud , and in any subject a heavier solid is needed – try out bismuth and/or iron shot . Delivering the resin and catalyst into the well requires two pipe , though an medium pulse of isopropyl alcohol may have a chance or separating the two liquids in a undivided feed tube , there ’d be a endangerment of plainly clogging the feed tube before it attain the well .
Another alternate plug is a triggerman , wire - guided , with a low speed modality ( or restrictor ) for manoeuvring into plaza , and an extended load maintain just enough kick to split containers of epoxy monomer and catalyst . ” – Jeremy , New Jersey , US
Prof Ershaghi says : A torpedo or any warhead enter the casing would have made this a major catastrophe as the loss of casing integrity would have resulted in a volcanic crater with uninterrupted and uncontrollable fossil oil flow for the next 30 - 40 years depend on the amount of rock oil in the reservoir .
The takeaway here ? BP’scontainment dome , which is supervise to siphon off about one-half of the making water ’s oil to the surface , might really be the least spoilt solution they can come up with at the moment . [ BBC ]
https://gizmodo.com/bps-new-containment-cap-is-kinda-working-5556307
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