i am most grateful and thankful for all the work the coast guard and hired workers are doing—i have recently seen a demo of DRIED PEAT MOSS SPRINKLED over any place where there is oil, and it doesn’t get hard, as in concrete, but hard, enough to hold together when scooped up, with almost no residue left on the pick up item, or the ground or in the water–I KNOW THIS MAY BE TOO SIMPLE, but wouldn’t that be easier to deal with????

Environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico: The drilling rig leased by the oil company BP Deepwater Horizon was on 22 April sunk after an explosion, since large quantities of crude oil to flow from several leaks. The oil is now threatening the ecologically sensitive Mississippi Delta to damage sustained. I am disappointed that not a single one of the culprits in jail.

develop a device similar to a cardiac surgions baloon angioplasty tube. insert into the well casing and inflate. or a device similar to that which water well drillers use to hydrofracture a well. it is a pipe inserted into the casing with an inflatable plug to seal the casing, then they pump water under high pressure to seas the well. concrete could be pumped in place of water. these should not be too hard to quickily fabricate.

Skimmers arent as effective with there partial cotainment.

Weapons of war that arent bieng used must now be used for peace and good will towards man. Utility craft for beach landings must be used. To correct what is wrong with BP oil spill and prove that a weapon of war can be used for PEACE.

The Department of Defense has beach landing craft that can be retroffited with wood pallets placed on there decks nailed together and secured with chains that will allow the oil to be captured or “stuck onto” the pallets themselves……IF the forward gate was left open and driven into and in line with the surface oil sludge floating in large linear masses. The opposite end of the craft can be cutt away to allow water flow from end to end. There are several models that can be used: BMC Higgins, LCM 8,LCU 2000, LCM3, There many utility craft that can be retrofitted.

The pallets collect the sludge, remove the pallets, install and secure more pallets. The correct boat that allows the gate to be lowered allowing water to flow from end to end and off the deck will work….modify the deck, modify the rear and forward water flow.

The oil needs to be stopped at it’s source now and cleanup is another issue.

I have two ideas that I know will work, they may be used together for redundancy. The first uses an expanding device that grabs onto the internal diameter of the oil pipe. It uses an expanding set of three “feet” that are attached to a rotating threaded shaft which can be directed into place by a set of ROV’s. As the shaft rotates, the feet spread inside the pipe and grab onto the side walls. A hydraulic ram or electric servomotor could lock the feet into place. The use of three feet helps the grabbing mechanism deal with any out of round condition and discontinuity in the side walls. This inserted mechanism provides very little impedence to the oil flow since it is only a small diameter threaded rod, some attachment hardware and polymer (or other appropriate gripping surface) feet. Once the gripping device is inserted and locked, the only thing extending out of the pipe is a threaded rod which would have a cone shaped plug attached to it that is to be rotated down onto the pipe termination.

Additionally, a large channeling tube similar to a drinking straw could be placed around the site and anchored at the bottom of the sea. This could be made out of a tough material bonded together like Tyvek house wrap or a ripstop nylon product similar to that used in hot air balloons. This method is used only for containment and yes, it will need to be a mile long. The tube would fit outside the oil flow, so getting it into place using ROV’s should be easier than some other methods of containment. The tube would need to extend from the bottom of the sea to the surface. At the surface, tankers would pump crude from the top of the tube before it could spill out into the surrounding sea.

I am an engineer and a fisherman. I want this mess stopped for all of us!

I have watched this disaster from the beginning, I have a possible solution ,I sent it to BP but have not been heard anything but a form letter.
As I see the unit at the bottom of the Gulf, BP cut the pipe which connected the riser to the oil rig.
Just below the pipe cutting there is a flange fitting with several bolts around it, very typical and used in many oil, water, air applications.
So here is my suggestion, why can’t BP not un bolt the flange, this would remove the cut pipe portion of the riser, then BP would be very free to attach a new flange style a ball valve or in fact any type of valve.the valve would be installed open , then closed once secure, they could also have re attached the pipe to the surface….they have the tools they have the equipment , I have included and example of a flange style valve, why is BP waiting this could have been done weeks ago..

Planetresource.net has a Eco friendly solution to clean up the tragedy British Petroleum has created, please watch the video animation:
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