By October 3, 2010...If they cant stop this leak.....

NoNoNoNoNONONONO

A nuke would not be a good idea with a methane leak...

KABOOOOM

That is a possibility. That is why I suggested in bedrock beneath the sea floor by many thousands of feet.
Away from both the sea floor and the oil field.

Any source of methane inside the detonation would not matter....vaporized
However...could a methane explosion travel downward thru the drill hole...doubtful

Methane: As a gas it is flammable only over a narrow range of concentrations (5–15%) in air. Liquid methane does not burn unless subjected to high pressure (normally 4–5 atmospheres).

The pressure is already pretty substantial and I don't think a nuke is going to lessen it any...

I've been hearing a lot about the use of hay. Does anyone have any idea on how that would work?




Someone said calculations were done for this solution. The number I heard was three years worth of hay grown just to clean up the oil already spilled. All of that would be needed at one time.

It works but we just don't have enough. Perhaps if the world pitched in.


There are tons of hay bales down here. :) Thanks for explaining.

Risky manuever because if it fails, it'll fail spectacularly with a giant hole pouring out oil, instead of a broken pipe leaking oil

Game over, man! Game over!

That is all.

I've been hearing a lot about the use of hay. Does anyone have any idea on how that would work?




Someone said calculations were done for this solution. The number I heard was three years worth of hay grown just to clean up the oil already spilled. All of that would be needed at one time.

It works but we just don't have enough. Perhaps if the world pitched in.


There are tons of hay bales down here. :) Thanks for explaining.

I've been hearing a lot about the use of hay. Does anyone have any idea on how that would work?




Someone said calculations were done for this solution. The number I heard was three years worth of hay grown just to clean up the oil already spilled. All of that would be needed at one time.

It works but we just don't have enough. Perhaps if the world pitched in.


There are tons of hay bales down here. :) Thanks for explaining.
outside the box


gigantic containment; shipping containers chianlinked
together forming walls and sunk; florida to mexico.
Despersants balled the crap up,so now its hug globs
stratifing; it's got to be a wall. STart now!!
may take twenty years to finish, another 30 years for clean up. Energy should not be a problem. Lotsa oil sans dispersant. outside the box

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...