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Originally Posted by Ethersync
There are only 2 known ways to fix the problem. 1) Relief wells. 2) Drop a nuke down the hole (Yes, really.). Relief wells take like 3 months to drill approximately. Nukes are the absolute last resort. All the "garbage" this and "kill" that techniques are just things to try while the relief wells are drilled. So yes, BP knows that most likely these techniques will not work and they have been quoted as saying this many times. What would you rather they do? Nothing at all until the relief wells are done?
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No, I was saying that in the 30 years since this first happened, they should have developed technology that was more reliable than a blow out preventer which failed last time as well.
There was evidence that undersea wells do in fact blow out and leak for months. There was also evidence that blow out preventers simply don't work. Yet nothing was done to improve the technology. That's why people are frustrated, every single other piece of technology in the world has improved yet the oil companies never bothered to build a blow out preventer that actually works.