Re: OT- Gulf Oil Spill

Posted by trucker 40 on June 21, 2010 at 17:06:14 from (69.152.39.218):

In Reply to: Re: OT- Gulf Oil Spill posted by buickanddeere on June 20, 2010 at 20:12:22:

The way they wanted to do it was use the ship hulls upside down on the surface.I think he said 6 million gallons per hull.Of course you wont catch all of it,but if they had been doing this since the first day the slick would be a lot smaller than it is.The only thing I didnt understand about it was how they separated the water from the oil,but he said modern tankers can do that?I guess that they pull un upside down ship hull over where the oil is coming up,let it fill up,pull it off somewhere close and pump it onto a tanker,then when the tanker is full,move another tanker in and keep on.Surely they can haul 2 or 3 months worth of oil somewhere close and pump it off the tanker,even if they had to truck it somewhere,to keep it from getting in the Gulf Of Mexico.They could crank up a few more refinerys or something because once it gets mixed with water real bad then it would probably not be worth catching.With a slick the size of the state of Washington,it might be hard to do this now.I guess they could burn a big patch of it off so they have room to work.

While they are doing this they need to rig up some kind of separator system and work on the slick.It would take a long time to catch all of that mess.It seems to me that somebody had some ships rigged with something like that in the 1970s.There was some oils spilled somewhere in the 1970s,maybe California or Florida and I kind of remember them having some kind of a thing like that on a ship.Of course there was no oil slick as big as this one back then,but they managed to clean it up if I remember right.
I dont know how they would sink a ship hull that deep.I wouldnt think they could do it very easy.
Whatever they tried to do with the casing would have to allow the oil to flow through it on the inside,but on the outside allow water to be pumped down it.I dont know if that would be possible.It sure is a mess from what the article says,and it will just get worse unless they do something to try and save it.I dont have any idea if what I thought of would even work or not,and it would take time to do about anything.The boat hulls on the surface could be the best bet.They can be positioned by tug boats.

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