On April 20, 2010 the Worst Man-Made Ecological Disaster in the History of Mankind occurred in the Gulf of Mexico. Today some 3 1/2 weeks later, President Obama has finally addressed the issue head on and expressed Outrage and Disgust...
While I welcome the President's Moratorium on All New Offshore Drilling. I Think It Should Be a Permanent Ban and not just a temporary one. Taking 30 days to further study the issue doesn't sound like genuine outrage and disgust to me. Nor does it sound like a serious solution. It sounds more like polite lip service to a politically volatile topic that's too hot to handle right now.
I Would Personally Prefer and Immediate Halt to All Deep Water Drilling (i.e. drilling at depths of more than 1000 feet). According to the Associated Press, there are at least 30 other drilling platforms currently operating in the Gulf of Mexico alone. They are all using the same kind of reckless technology that made this environmental catastrophe possible.
Technology that the "Tea Party Crowd" has routinely endorsed by chanting "Drill Baby Drill".
Technology that the industry has always called "Fail-Safe".
Technology that John McCain and Sarah Palin called "Proven and Foolproof ".
Technology that on March 31, 2010 - The President himself called, "Completely Safe and Reliable".
Then on April 20, 2010 just three short weeks later, this disaster happened. Now I don't know for sure, if the President is really outraged and disgusted or not. But I do know this much, I Sure Am!
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Showing posts with label Gulf Oil Spill Much Worse. Show all posts
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Saturday, May 15, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
BP Oil Spill Is 10 Times Worse Than Estimated!
NPR said today that new data obtained by them shows that oil gushing out of the Deepwater Horizon pipe on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico is at least 10 times the U.S. Coast Guard's original estimate.
The U.S. Coast Guard had estimated that oil was gushing from a broken pipe on the Gulf floor at the rate of 5,000 barrels a day.
But sophisticated scientific analysis of sea floor video made available Wednesday by the oil company BP shows that the true figure is closer to 70,000 barrels a day, NPR's Richard Harris reports.
That means the oil spilling into the Gulf has already far exceeded the equivalent of the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker accident in Alaska, which spilled at least 250,000 barrels of oil.
The analysis was conducted by Steve Werely, an associate professor at Purdue University, using a technique called particle image velocimetry. Harris tells Michele Norris that the method is accurate to about 20 percent. That means the flow could range between 56,000 barrels a day and 84,000 barrels a day.
Another analysis by Eugene Chiang, a professor of astrophysics at the University of California Berkeley, calculated the rate of flow to be between 20,000 barrels a day and 100,000 barrels a day — both higher than the Coast Guard's estimate.
But the pipe is spewing both Oil and Natural Gas and the BP does not make it clear how much is oil and how much is gas.
"BP has always said there is no way to measure the amount spilling from the pipe," Harris said.
But, he said, the uncertainty could be reduced if BP would share more information with the scientists.
Gee, I wonder why they're not choosing to do that?
P. S. The Obama Administration is still standing by its March 31st decision to Expand Offshore Oil Drilling. In fact, just yesterday the President gave his support to the Lieberman, Kerry Energy Bill which calls for the same.
Just Thinking
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The U.S. Coast Guard had estimated that oil was gushing from a broken pipe on the Gulf floor at the rate of 5,000 barrels a day.
But sophisticated scientific analysis of sea floor video made available Wednesday by the oil company BP shows that the true figure is closer to 70,000 barrels a day, NPR's Richard Harris reports.
That means the oil spilling into the Gulf has already far exceeded the equivalent of the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker accident in Alaska, which spilled at least 250,000 barrels of oil.
The analysis was conducted by Steve Werely, an associate professor at Purdue University, using a technique called particle image velocimetry. Harris tells Michele Norris that the method is accurate to about 20 percent. That means the flow could range between 56,000 barrels a day and 84,000 barrels a day.
Another analysis by Eugene Chiang, a professor of astrophysics at the University of California Berkeley, calculated the rate of flow to be between 20,000 barrels a day and 100,000 barrels a day — both higher than the Coast Guard's estimate.
But the pipe is spewing both Oil and Natural Gas and the BP does not make it clear how much is oil and how much is gas.
"BP has always said there is no way to measure the amount spilling from the pipe," Harris said.
But, he said, the uncertainty could be reduced if BP would share more information with the scientists.
Gee, I wonder why they're not choosing to do that?
P. S. The Obama Administration is still standing by its March 31st decision to Expand Offshore Oil Drilling. In fact, just yesterday the President gave his support to the Lieberman, Kerry Energy Bill which calls for the same.
Just Thinking
Please feel free to comment below, ( just click on the word "Comments" if the panel is not open). Or you can e-mail me direct at eddieoreilly@hotmail.com and your comment will be posted. And don't forget to check out my new blog Agnostic Thinking found at the following address... http://www.AgnosticThinking.BlogSpot.Com/ Dedicated just to Agnostic/Atheism, Rational Thinking, Gay Subculture And Related Topics.
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