by Frenchy Lamour
Ben Marble MD (who told Dick Cheney to go fuck himself) sent me the following video, shot yesterday. It appears that BP's oil has entered Mississippi Sound. Watch for the turtle:
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Updated 2 TIMES - Deepwater Horizon appears to be erupting from seabed
by PhotogHog
I apologize for the short diary, like so many others have before me, but I must attend to work. Please, someone more qualified look into this. Thanks. UPDATE - see C Barr's comment regarding TOD UPDATE 2 - But see Paladine's reference to BP putting a video loop up instead of a live feed. Do we need to, or can we, organize the mass watching of this video to track its honesty? Can anyone record what they are showing? BP stalled in making a live feed available because they did not want any scientists or engineers to estimate the true flow. Are they now running a loop because they do not want anyone to see how much it has increased? What is going on with the video loop questions?
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I apologize for the short diary, like so many others have before me, but I must attend to work. Please, someone more qualified look into this. Thanks. UPDATE - see C Barr's comment regarding TOD UPDATE 2 - But see Paladine's reference to BP putting a video loop up instead of a live feed. Do we need to, or can we, organize the mass watching of this video to track its honesty? Can anyone record what they are showing? BP stalled in making a live feed available because they did not want any scientists or engineers to estimate the true flow. Are they now running a loop because they do not want anyone to see how much it has increased? What is going on with the video loop questions?
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How the top kill would (hopefully) work (with animation)
by seesdifferent
This is a brief diary which is more of a pictorial explanation than anything else. To me, not an engineer but with a science background, the top kill idea didn't make any sense, with that riser kinked and leaking where it comes out of the BOP. The idea initially shown below is that under very high pressure a dense and viscous substance ("mud") would be injected into the "kill" and "choke" ports, and that this pressurized substance would force the oil back down the well, and then would be cemented over. However, it seemed to me that firstly, the mud could not be injected very rapidly through the small hoses, and, secondly, the mud would just come flying out the top and rip the already leaking riser pipe into shreds. Now I have run across an animation/explanation which makes the scheme seem more reasonable.
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This is a brief diary which is more of a pictorial explanation than anything else. To me, not an engineer but with a science background, the top kill idea didn't make any sense, with that riser kinked and leaking where it comes out of the BOP. The idea initially shown below is that under very high pressure a dense and viscous substance ("mud") would be injected into the "kill" and "choke" ports, and that this pressurized substance would force the oil back down the well, and then would be cemented over. However, it seemed to me that firstly, the mud could not be injected very rapidly through the small hoses, and, secondly, the mud would just come flying out the top and rip the already leaking riser pipe into shreds. Now I have run across an animation/explanation which makes the scheme seem more reasonable.
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BP - When Chaos Becomes Policy in Place of Solutions
by wbramh
Yesterday, my friend Paul chastised me politely (and with ample logic) for writing gloom and doom articles about BP's little whoops in the Gulf. “Whoops” is my sarcastic term, not Paul’s opinion, for he really does get it. Our disagreement stems from my belief that while I get it and he gets it and you get it, most folks still don’t get it. Paul, to his credit, is a tireless champion for solutions. Perhaps to my discredit, I just don't see one here. Without first getting it, how can we possibly move on to the solutions that Paul would understandably prefer. Like healthcare and financial reform, without first identifying the core problem, how can you really solve the problem?... Well, you don't, even with a willing, albeit mythical Congress. But while a problem has no solution if the cause is never acknowledged, this particular disaster may be a problem without a solution.
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Yesterday, my friend Paul chastised me politely (and with ample logic) for writing gloom and doom articles about BP's little whoops in the Gulf. “Whoops” is my sarcastic term, not Paul’s opinion, for he really does get it. Our disagreement stems from my belief that while I get it and he gets it and you get it, most folks still don’t get it. Paul, to his credit, is a tireless champion for solutions. Perhaps to my discredit, I just don't see one here. Without first getting it, how can we possibly move on to the solutions that Paul would understandably prefer. Like healthcare and financial reform, without first identifying the core problem, how can you really solve the problem?... Well, you don't, even with a willing, albeit mythical Congress. But while a problem has no solution if the cause is never acknowledged, this particular disaster may be a problem without a solution.
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It isn't news.
by Green Bean
The gulf is fouled. I repeat: that’s not news. It’s not the hot topic of the day. It isn’t fodder for the continuing, persistent cry of our time, to save our planet. It isn’t the latest and the greatest opening for the outrage of eco-bloggers or tears of conservationists. It isn’t a the latest and greatest opportunity to make that most important plea yet again: that human culture come to its senses and stop exploiting before it is too late. No, that isn’t what this disaster is.
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The gulf is fouled. I repeat: that’s not news. It’s not the hot topic of the day. It isn’t fodder for the continuing, persistent cry of our time, to save our planet. It isn’t the latest and the greatest opening for the outrage of eco-bloggers or tears of conservationists. It isn’t a the latest and greatest opportunity to make that most important plea yet again: that human culture come to its senses and stop exploiting before it is too late. No, that isn’t what this disaster is.
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New Orleans, canary in a coal mine
by James Paton Walsh
The oil disaster is destroying what remains of the wetlands that provide us with minimal protection from hurricanes. The levees that were built and maintained by the Corps of Engineers failed in Katrina and barely withstood Gustav. Storms are getting larger because of global warming. The government is in bed with the oil companies and the banks.
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The oil disaster is destroying what remains of the wetlands that provide us with minimal protection from hurricanes. The levees that were built and maintained by the Corps of Engineers failed in Katrina and barely withstood Gustav. Storms are getting larger because of global warming. The government is in bed with the oil companies and the banks.
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Green Diary Rescue & Open Thread
by Meteor Blades
Ian Urbina at The New York Times writes: In the days since President Obama announced a moratorium on permits for drilling new offshore oil wells and a halt to a controversial type of environmental waiver that was given to the Deepwater Horizon rig, at least seven new permits for various types of drilling and five environmental waivers have been granted, according to records. The records also indicate that since the April 20 explosion on the rig, federal regulators have granted at least 19 environmental waivers for gulf drilling projects and at least 17 drilling permits, most of which were for types of work like that on the Deepwater Horizon shortly before it exploded, pouring a ceaseless current of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Asked about the permits and waivers, officials at the Department of the Interior and the Minerals Management Service, which regulates drilling, pointed to public statements by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, reiterating that the agency had no intention of stopping all new oil and gas production in the gulf. Department of the Interior officials said in a statement that the moratorium was meant only to halt permits for the drilling of new wells. It was not meant to stop permits for new work on existing drilling projects like the Deepwater Horizon. = = = [The green diary rescue begins below and continues in the jump. Inclusion of a particular diary does not necessarily indicate my agreement with it. The GDR appears on Thursdays and Sundays.] Above is one of the photos with which Eddie C beautified the site in his Friday Evening Photo Blogging: Wave Hill Edition. Gangster Octopus was delighted to learn that Tesla, Toyota Team Up to Create 1,000 Jobs: "'In a stunning deal, Tesla Motors announced late Thursday that it is teaming up with Toyota to build its all-electric Model S sedan at the recently shuttered NUMMI plant in Fremont, creating more than 1,000 new jobs.'"
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Ian Urbina at The New York Times writes: In the days since President Obama announced a moratorium on permits for drilling new offshore oil wells and a halt to a controversial type of environmental waiver that was given to the Deepwater Horizon rig, at least seven new permits for various types of drilling and five environmental waivers have been granted, according to records. The records also indicate that since the April 20 explosion on the rig, federal regulators have granted at least 19 environmental waivers for gulf drilling projects and at least 17 drilling permits, most of which were for types of work like that on the Deepwater Horizon shortly before it exploded, pouring a ceaseless current of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Asked about the permits and waivers, officials at the Department of the Interior and the Minerals Management Service, which regulates drilling, pointed to public statements by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, reiterating that the agency had no intention of stopping all new oil and gas production in the gulf. Department of the Interior officials said in a statement that the moratorium was meant only to halt permits for the drilling of new wells. It was not meant to stop permits for new work on existing drilling projects like the Deepwater Horizon. = = = [The green diary rescue begins below and continues in the jump. Inclusion of a particular diary does not necessarily indicate my agreement with it. The GDR appears on Thursdays and Sundays.] Above is one of the photos with which Eddie C beautified the site in his Friday Evening Photo Blogging: Wave Hill Edition. Gangster Octopus was delighted to learn that Tesla, Toyota Team Up to Create 1,000 Jobs: "'In a stunning deal, Tesla Motors announced late Thursday that it is teaming up with Toyota to build its all-electric Model S sedan at the recently shuttered NUMMI plant in Fremont, creating more than 1,000 new jobs.'"
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Overnight News Digest: Dirty Laundry
by Interceptor7
Welcome to Overnight News Digest for Sunday, May 23, 2010. Overnight News Digest posts nightly at around 12 am Eastern. OND is a group effort in which each editor strives to create a unique news presentation through format, story selection, and the addition of anything he or she thinks will be interesting or enlightening to the community. Reader participation is invited and encouraged, so feel free to post your own stories, photos, etc. This series is lead by the very luminescent Neon Vincent,our editor-in-chief. As always, a enthusiastic hat-tip is extended to our founder, Magnifico.
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Welcome to Overnight News Digest for Sunday, May 23, 2010. Overnight News Digest posts nightly at around 12 am Eastern. OND is a group effort in which each editor strives to create a unique news presentation through format, story selection, and the addition of anything he or she thinks will be interesting or enlightening to the community. Reader participation is invited and encouraged, so feel free to post your own stories, photos, etc. This series is lead by the very luminescent Neon Vincent,our editor-in-chief. As always, a enthusiastic hat-tip is extended to our founder, Magnifico.
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BP numbers suggests 111,000,000 gallons and counting.
by 8ackgr0und N015e
British Petroleum said that 5,000 barrels a day were leaking into the Gulf following the collapse of Deepwater Horizon. British Petroleum said that 5,000 barrels a day were being collected by a 5 inch diameter siphon placed inside a 21 inch diameter pipeline. If you believe the first number, you can't believe the second number. If you believe the second number, you can't believe the first number. If you believe British Petroleum's second number, then they have dumped 111 million gallons of oil into the Gulf.
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British Petroleum said that 5,000 barrels a day were leaking into the Gulf following the collapse of Deepwater Horizon. British Petroleum said that 5,000 barrels a day were being collected by a 5 inch diameter siphon placed inside a 21 inch diameter pipeline. If you believe the first number, you can't believe the second number. If you believe the second number, you can't believe the first number. If you believe British Petroleum's second number, then they have dumped 111 million gallons of oil into the Gulf.
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