Okay, here's my idea. I'm no physicist or engineer, or even a plumber, but many of the ideas I have heard to date involve some kind of containment device that fits over the pipe tightly and balloons outward. I propose the opposite, a sort of plunger... Imagine a huge dome, with a hole at the top and a weighted bottom, made of some kind of flexible material. Get 3M on this, they'll come up with something. Attached to the hole is a hose or pipe (it would have to have some flexibility to deal with currents, etc.). The dome would be made of some kind of flexible material as well that would provide a seal to the ocean floor surrounding the pipe. As the container ship above slowly pumps the water out from inside the plunger, the pressure of the surrounding water would push in on the water inside to compress the plunger and push the water and oil inside it it upwards, as the gushing oil would prevent it from moving into the pipe, so where else would it go? This is elementary physics. Even if the container ships are not in place fast enough to take in the expelled oil, it would go into the air and fall onto the surface where it could be contained easier using known technology, rather than dispersing underwater creating unknown damage.
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Thursday, June 3, 2010
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