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What Impact Do You Think the Gulf Oil Spill Will Have?
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Perkocet
Clearly you haven't seen Laihendi's plan if you think this is till a 'catastrophe'.
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313143
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Laihendi
Honestly, once it spreads out over a large enough area and becomes diluted, it will probably just evaporate.
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Post by
Laihendi
No, oil is lighter than water, that's why when you pour olive oil or something into water, it'll float to the top. So when it rains only the water will come back down.
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Post by
Laihendi
Uh... the oil in its gaseous form would actually help to reinforce the ozone layer, so it won't just fall back down. If anything, this oil spill might be a good thing (in the long run).
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Post by
Dragoonman
Honestly, once it spreads out over a large enough area and becomes diluted, it will probably just evaporate.
You don't understand. The oil, as I said, contaminates water at the rate of a quart of oil contaminating 250,000 gallons of water. And say a hurricane pushes it onto land. The prospects of this "spill" are terrible.
No, oil is lighter than water, that's why when you pour olive oil or something into water, it'll float to the top. So when it rains only the water will come back down.
And that's not the way it works either. It also contains numerous chemicals and natural gas.
That aside, the dispersant they are putting into the water SINKS the oil, and spreads out the molecules, seemingly making it heavier than water.
Unfortunately, I don't think this subject can be taken lightly. Its probably the biggest oil "spill" ever. We don't know what will happen. The ocean itself will dilute it since it contains trillions of gallons, but the Gulf is probably the worst place to have a spill imaginable :(
Uh... the oil in its gaseous form would actually help to reinforce the ozone layer, so it won't just fall back down. If anything, this oil spill might be a good thing (in the long run).
As for the "gas" of the oil, that's not an actual problem. In fact, I would rather they burn as much oil as possible every single day.
Post by
Laihendi
Do you even have sources for any of that?
Post by
Dragoonman
Do you even have sources for any of that?
Well,
This
This
, Which tells how many of gallons of water are in the ocean, That is 343,423,668,428,484,681,262, which means it would take 343 trillion gallons of oil to contaminate all the ocean. I don't really think the entire ocean is in trouble. That means that 1 quart of oil affects 250,000 gallons of water, so 1 gallon affects 1 mil gallons of water.
This
Explaining how oil contaminates water.
This
is a video of the dispersant. Also, on the John Stewart show, (Or Colbert Report) John or Colbert stated the there was a giant oil plume under the ocean due to the dispersant. And of course you can watch the diver videos which clearly show strange underwater oil plumes and odd snot like formations, lol.
This
A small article on the affects of gas from the oil.... eruption. (Spill just isn't the right term).
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Post by
Perkocet
you're such a pessimist.
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160546
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Post by
Dragoonman
i personally am very afriad.... what if the oil doesn't stop?.... pretty soon, this entire ocean will be covered in oil..... we don't know how much oil will come out.. and we have no solution to stop the problem....
so we're screwed...
Yeah... There isn't 343 trillion gallons of oil in the deep water horizon eruption. But it will still be devastating.
Some good news though, they say they have plugged it temporarily. Lets hope it doesn't go again.
Post by
Heckler
Some good news though, they say they have plugged it temporarily. Lets hope it doesn't go again.
The fact that it's pluggable at all might not be good news, it could be an indication that the well casing has failed. They've already shown some concern that the pressure behind the cap is not reaching the levels they had hoped, which may be an indication that the oil has found some other path out.
The complications associated with a failed casing are pretty grim =/
The well casing was never designed to handle the high flowrates from the blowout, so it's almost surely been partially eroded over the last three months (the make up of the oil in the well is not friendly to piping -- gas, rocks, high temperatures, all sorts of bad stuff moving
very
fast) -- capping the well and allowing the pressure to climb too high might actually
cause
the casing to fail.
Let's hope not... it's all we
can
do at this point.
Post by
Squishalot
Worst comes to worst, the relief well is still underway. And even if the new cap works properly, the relief well will still continue to be constructed so that they can plug the hole properly.
I'm curious to see if the Government will:
a) Allow operations to continue generally in the Gulf of Mexico;
b) Allow exploration to continue in the Gulf of Mexico; and
c) Allow operators to attempt to retap this particular reserve.
I've heard a lot of media about people in states along the coast arguing that it's bad, it's a disaster...
but they want the oil companies to stay!
The oil companies in the Gulf are their lifeblood - they provide significant employment. Ratchet up the safety regulations, sure, but don't just kick them out, they say.
In relation to (c), it'll be an interesting one. There's a lot of oil in that reserve, and it wouldn't make sense to just ignore it while you're wasting resources drilling less productive wells elsewhere. But whether they'll allow BP another crack at it is questionable.
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