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Originally posted by Brit-Tex
If we knew more about the type of oil that is coming out of the pipe we might have a better idea on how to try to solve this.
Originally posted by alexhiggins732
reply to post by Morpheas
There is a live counter on (nolink). It is a widget you can copy and past the embed code like a youtube video.
Originally posted by [davinci]
How much of this oil is being drug way out of the area before it ever hits the surface? Are we going to hear at some point about a mysterious oil slick seen by pilots in the middle of the Atlantic? I can't help but think about the garbage patch in the Pacific where all the crap thrown into the oceans is accumulating (something that is also WAY under reported).
Originally posted by Brit-Tex
I just want to ask everyone here a few questions?
1. Is the reserve of oil they found like a big under water lake?
2. Is this oil like what was on board the exxon valdez?
3. Is the oil coming out of the busted pipe of the heavy crude or light crude?
Originally posted by Morpheas
How much oil?
BP/NOAA/Coast Gard - 5,000 bpd
Professor Ian MacDonald at Florida State University - 25,000 bpd
SkyTruth - 26,500 bpd
Professor Steve Werely at Purdue University - 70,000 bpd
Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Thad Allen - 100,000 bpd
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Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Originally posted by [davinci]
How much of this oil is being drug way out of the area before it ever hits the surface? Are we going to hear at some point about a mysterious oil slick seen by pilots in the middle of the Atlantic? I can't help but think about the garbage patch in the Pacific where all the crap thrown into the oceans is accumulating (something that is also WAY under reported).
Listen carefully, everyone, you WANT the oil to be carried out into the deep ocean. Where do you expect it to go? The ocean breaks it down. What doesnt break down oil is sand, plant life, animals, and so so. oil STICKS to things. The best place for it sunk miles beneath the ocean far away from land where most animals and humans live.
reply to post by N.of norml
Are you seriously implying that methane released by the oil leak will cause mass extinction?!?
[edit on 16-5-2010 by IgnoranceIsntBlisss]
Originally posted by N.of norml
reply to post by FancyKat
"N.of norml,
However surface photos do not reflect the enormous volume the leak would become on it's way to the surface. In fact there is minimal surface gas at the well site.
This suggests a much of the gas is forming a clathrate hydrate as it cools under the huge pressure.
This is a time bomb as the methane hydrate which is likely forming a density partition in deep water at this point will continue to collect until it drifts into warmer water then an astronomical amount of natural gas will come out of the hydrate and bubble to the surface.
This type of event has caused extinction on this planet in the past."
I said this was occurring yesterday in the mentioned post. As I also said the trapped gas is the far more drastic and immediate short term threat this event presents.
Telling that while this was occurring at the site while the ROVs had to pass thru the thickening partition layer yet it is presented as a "new " finding.
As if feeding us crap with a baby spoon makes it more tolerable...feh!
I have a degree in chemistry I got by working the rigs and fields I know a bit about oil and a lot about chemistry. But not as much about this chemistry as a petrochemist, who would know about the oil/gas /ice matrix that forms around natural seeps at these depths. And would have far more data than I did when I realized this was the case in why so little oil and gas have hit surface.
To any who wish to minimize the situation I repeat huge die offs and even mass extinctions have happened due to methane.
should these plumes become mixed en mass with warmer water an amount of natural gas of unprecedented volume will be released. For now most of the oil and gas are likely building up in these partition layers like a ticking time bomb.
N.