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This is a computer model and hasn't been peer-reviewed yet. It demonstrates a virtual die and shows how it could spread based on modeling of loop currents connecting to Atlantic flows. The oil could go up to North Carolina at a rate of 100 miles a day before it hits the eastern flow into the Atlantic.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/06/gulf-oil-could-spread-to-atlantic-coast/
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/06/gulf-oil-could-spread-to-atlantic-coast/
Doonesbury Say What?
Jun. 3rd, 2010 09:41 am"I just want my life back."
-- BP CEO Tony Hayward
I just want a non-devastated Gulf back.
There was a lovely piece on The Daily Show of violations recorded by the MMS on BP operations over the last three years. Over 800. The next two highest offenders? EIGHT. The lowest number of violations? Exxon with ONE.
And we don't even have the story of BP letting part of the Alaska pipeline rust on the front page yet.
When Obama said that deep sea drilling was safe a month or so before the well blew, I knew he was going to regret saying that, I just wish it hadn't been so soon and so cataclysmic. Apparently the Saudis (or some UAE country) had a similar incident. Environmental impact: almost zero. Their solution? They brought in lots of oil super tankers equipped with pumps and filters, they sat around the leak pumping in contaminated sea water, capturing the oil, pumping the filtered water back out.
Pity no one is talking about this.
-- BP CEO Tony Hayward
I just want a non-devastated Gulf back.
There was a lovely piece on The Daily Show of violations recorded by the MMS on BP operations over the last three years. Over 800. The next two highest offenders? EIGHT. The lowest number of violations? Exxon with ONE.
And we don't even have the story of BP letting part of the Alaska pipeline rust on the front page yet.
When Obama said that deep sea drilling was safe a month or so before the well blew, I knew he was going to regret saying that, I just wish it hadn't been so soon and so cataclysmic. Apparently the Saudis (or some UAE country) had a similar incident. Environmental impact: almost zero. Their solution? They brought in lots of oil super tankers equipped with pumps and filters, they sat around the leak pumping in contaminated sea water, capturing the oil, pumping the filtered water back out.
Pity no one is talking about this.
Doonesbury Say What?
May. 19th, 2010 07:58 am"When do we ask the Sierra Club to pick up the tab for this leak? Everybody's focused on BP and Halliburton and Transocean...The greeniacs have been driving our oil producers off the land."
-- Rush Limbaugh
Someone once described the internet as an ocean infinitely wide but only a millimeter deep, you may draw your own conclusion as to what I think of Rush based on that description.
-- Rush Limbaugh
Someone once described the internet as an ocean infinitely wide but only a millimeter deep, you may draw your own conclusion as to what I think of Rush based on that description.
Doonesbury Say What?
May. 18th, 2010 08:18 am"It's a relatively small leak compared to the volume of water in the Gulf... Come on, this is America, there will be frivolous lawsuits."
-- BP CEO Tony Hayward
You miss the point.
Turn around.
Go back.
Try again.
I heard that there are apparently huge oil plumes coalescing underwater because of the way they're using the dispersant. In the words of Blackadder, I believe it rhymes with Clucking Bell.
-- BP CEO Tony Hayward
You miss the point.
Turn around.
Go back.
Try again.
I heard that there are apparently huge oil plumes coalescing underwater because of the way they're using the dispersant. In the words of Blackadder, I believe it rhymes with Clucking Bell.
