As yet, no one can explain to me why my methods of fixing the pipe won't work. The fact is, it would work, and is done all the time on land.
If the pipe is bare, cut groves 50% into the pipe into it to accept a screw-on collar, which can be cemented on, and in turn can accept a flange and a shut-off valve. The pipe is more than able to accept the grove cuts as it's probably rated far more than double the strength necessary to contain the oil pressure. If the pipe is already flanged, they simply need to remove the flange and attach a shut-off valve. I don't understand what is so difficult about fixing a pipe. The ocean pressures, and the exiting pressurized oil is NOT a factor in fixing the pipe. As a matter of fact, some deep land wells exhibit MORE pressure on exiting on 15lbs. of land pressure than in the ocean where the oil is exiting into the 7,000lbs of ocean pressure. All the talk of shooting tires and golf balls into it, putting cement into it, add dispersant, drop mountains of rocks on it, crimp it, drop an atom bomb on it.... is all stupid talk for stupid people. That pipe could have been fixed in 3 days. Fix the pipe and stop the BS. It makes me wonder if Obama called up BP when it happened and told them not to fix it. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
