Garrick,
A nuke would foul the oyster beds and ocean floor for thousands of
years.
----- Original Message -----
From: Garrick
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: CS>Mother of all gushers could kill Earth's oceans
How many holes are you going to drill. Six with six charges? I think it is
best to go deep for any explosions because the oil/gas is so high pressure it
will make its way past 20 feet of rubble. Even done your way
I wish a real nuke expert would give an opinion to the media but I think
there is such a nuke-phobia it wouldn't be used even if it was proven to be the
best course. I rather nuke it if that's a good way to go than see oyster beds
and fishing grounds fouled for 20 years
I wonder what Edwin Teller would say.
g
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Malcolm <[email protected]> wrote:
Garrick,
the idea of the small shaped charges is to surround the pipe with them
and blow it closed, or at least down to a dia. where it could be capped.
Blowing the whole thing even wider is not a good idea, and anything on a
scale you envision would probably produce cracking and widen existing
faults which would lead to a catastrophic impossible-to-control blowout
of the entire pocket. Wrong way to go.
Malcolm
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 13:32 -0400, Garrick wrote:
> Hi
> I'm no engineer but I think a very small nuke is what you need to to
> collapse the well from a hole bored side by side with the gusher hole.
> Drill down a few hundred feet and detonate. I doubt 3-4 lbs of
> conventional explosives will do it unless inserted directly down the
> well which sounds impossible to me. This is a very high pressure well.
> I could swear I read was drilled through basalt to get to the oil but
> can find nothing on the internet about basalt
>
> I want that nuke to cap that well by destroying it. If that oil
> reservoir is tapped again BP will have to drill a new hole....Hey it's
> doing that anyway right now. Two of them
>
> g
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