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By October 3, 2010...If they cant stop this leak.....
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 982938:MV8xMDYwODU2XzE3MTk0Njk4X0QwMDFCMUE=] [quote:Plagued_Souls] About 25,000 psi pressure in your sewer pipe. I'm not an engineer, but I pretend to be one at work. When we have a sewer pipe that is collapsing, and we can not dig it up do to location, we sleeve the pipe with a smaller pipe. Put an expandable rubber gasket around the second smaller pipe. Presto, new pipe without a whole in it. Am I missing something here? :wtf: the pressure won't matter, the other end of the picould still be left open, connected to a flexible pipe, dumping into a freighter Connect to what?...broken, bent collapsing pipes and a BOP that is on its way out... If the well pipe is broke completely off at the ocean floor, insert a large section of straight pipe that is 1 diameter smaller. Do this with some sort of robotic arm. The outside of the sleeve pipe would be covered with an expandable rubber gasket. The other end of this pipe will already have a flexible pipe connected to it (yes I realize it would be a mile long), travelling to the surface and dumping into a freighter. Just a thought, I would be tring anything. This is what I thought. Put a smaller pipe into the old one, at the source. Bypass the BOP and all the crap that is leaking. An expandable gasket. This just seems obvious. [/quote] 4 of us sitting around the office on break days ago. There must be a reason they don't want to stop it???? Or maybe we are wrong or there is something we don't know. [/quote]
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The entire Gulf of Mexico will be covered in crude.
I have an idea....probably crazy but....
A small intense long burn thermonuclear device detonated in the bedrock in a hole drilled parallel and close to the original shaft.
This may be enough to melt bedrock to magma and re-harden just long enough to seal this sucker off. The initial blast wave would push both upward and downward on the existing shaft.....what possible side effects could this have?
Previous devices tested in this fashion created a hollow area with smooth sealed walls....
Or am I out in left field here...
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