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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
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.
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Actually, as I understand it, the technology is light years beyond what was being done in the 70s. Still does not get around the fact that mother nature is a force to be reckoned with and when you crack a hole in the planet with a mile of water bearing down on you it is damn hard to plug it...
The bad news is I am reading, from experts in the field, that relief wells will be VERY difficult in this situation and most likely will not work. That means we will have to do it Russian style and load up a nuke in an unmanned submersible and drive it down there and BOOM.
Also, the oil and chemical dispersant are killing all the algae and, as many do not realize, algae is our main source of oxygen.