Hi! Thanks for nice greeting, and to your website. It's cool.carteki wrote:Welcome to the world of politics....
I bet once they smell them, they'll know how to buy the rest. But the problem 's in selfish materialistic gains without responsibilities.nakatago wrote:Countries with industrial might do not always have the know-how for deep-sea drilling. More so for resources.
For global solutions to materialize, the globe should first identify what the problem is and find feasible and effective ways to solve it.
And yeah, politics. When that enters the picture, common sense goes flying out the window.
Yes, I thought the Gulf of Mexico and oil rigs rang a bell - so it was in 1979. BP must have done research before drilling and should have had a sound rescue package. Perhaps BP was not as sensitive to the earth's and its differentiated structure and materials as they should have been, seeing that they have done faily well with the oil rig in the North sea.sundaymorningstaple wrote:Thought I quite relying on my fading memories and look it up this morning. Here's a bit more on the IXTOX 1 disaster.
http://home.versatel.nl/the_sims/rig/ixtoc1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtoc_1
--- Why haven't they been unable to end the spill after all this time - it's been more than 3 months! It seems that all one can do is to watch helplessly as the precious oil gushes out continuously, and by that very act, turning everything upside down -sundaymorningstaple wrote:I reckon BP is and has been contacting the best the world's got to offer already. But you won't see it splashed on the front page unless they come up with something new or concrete. These scenarios are constantly being played out in oil company engineering departments around the world as mans unending demand for oil pushes the limits further and further. Had the world seriously started looking at alternative renewable energy sources 40 years ago, this might not have happened. And, it's also the public who own shares in those oil companies who want to see dividends. At the end of the day, it's the public pushing until something breaks. Then they have to look for scapegoats. BP got caught. I daresay, every oil company out there is looking in their own backyard at the moment as they know fully well that their systems are 100% either. I spend too many years out here and I know things haven't changed that much (technology has but humans haven't).
The other problem is if you hold back exploration drilling guess what that's going to do to the price of oil. And then listen to the same public screaming about the cost of running their SUVs. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
If the greens hadn't gone so swivel-eyed about nuclear power since time immemorial, or land based drilling (ex: Alaska), then this never needed happen. I.e. it is their fault.anneteoh wrote:sundaymorningstaple wrote:
I had expected P. Obama to be more reassuring and hold out a hand to BP with assurance of technical support etc ( though BP's got the lot ) instead of the harshwords and the complete blame. I would also expect him to open the BP dilemma to members of Climate Change and start a Climate Change Think Tank to work out a stop the spill plan within a short time. BP can do with a lot of help as it's not able to stop the spill.
As an expert in this field, can you think of how BP can stop the gushing or get the oil out with the least spill into the environment?
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