So, say you're commissioned to fix the leakage (I assume we've all heard of this load of bs that's been going on) now that James Cameron failed (he was supposedly commissioned by the government as a consultant a month back or so). How would you go about it?
Stick to the rule of K.I.S.S., but if you have a good Arduino related idea, it's worth more brownie points so post it as well.
A really really big cork. With an AVR on it. Call it corkduino.
I suspect BP really does want to stop oil flowing into the Gulf. But, I also suspect they have only considered ideas that allow them to move the well into production.
Does "fix the leakage" include ideas that permanently damage / ruin the well?
I doubt anything with an Arduino will help - I do wonder if this idea has been considered (and I realize this is all "armchair"):
What if (perhaps via one of the relief wells, or perhaps straight into the damaged well) they injected liquid methane or propane into the well - at that depth and temperature, as soon as the methane/propane hit the water, shouldn't frozen hydrates form, plugging the well with a frozen hydrate plug?
/very armchair, and I don't understand the physics/chemistry involved...
//oh, and put an Arduino on it to monitor gas flow...
Yeah, I read someone's suggestion somewhere that you put a tube around the well, and pump liquid nitrogen through it to make the oil sludge, thus allowing you to fill the hole with mud/cement.
yea the issue with that is pumping the stuff mile(s) under water with X millions pounds of pressure on the other side
me, I would tape an iPad to it, they are made from magic you know
I would tape an iPad to it, they are made from magic you know
Oh, I thought it would be because you also thought they were best as far away as possible xD
Perhaps a slurry of minced, useless iPhone 4s could be pumped down.
Naturally, you people keep forgetting the OBVIOUS Southern solution --- DUCT TAPE!!!
Perhaps a slurry of minced, useless iPhone 4s could be pumped down.
Hahaha I still love Steve Job's original response to the connection problem:
Just don't hold it like that.
When "not holding it like that" involves not touching the sides of the phone hahaha ;D
But, I also suspect they have only considered ideas that allow them to move the well into production.
Well they did consider blowing it up to try and block it but that was probably not their idea. Did they actually have any ideas of their own?
ha
quite funny indeed
I suspect BP really does want to stop oil flowing into the Gulf.
You've rumbled us Brits, it is all a plot to make your seas as contaminated as ours he he he.
Some people will believe anything you know.
You've rumbled us Brits, it is all a plot to make your seas as contaminated as ours he he he.
Some people will believe anything you know.
You mean like BP is a British company called British Petroleum?
It stopped being British years ago, and is just BP now. Of course, calling it British and blaming us is only natural - hollywood has spent the last couple of decades pegging Brits as bad guys.
Arduino oil spill solution (by CowJam, aged 30 3/4)
I would have swarms of small autonomous robots, arduino controlled. They would be equipped with basic homing communications. When one happens upon oil it would signal how much oil it is in.
Arduinos would decide where to go based on the strength of the signal (to indicate distance) and the amount of oil. A big patch of oil would attract arduinos to clean it up. Little patches of oil would only attract particularly bored arduinos.
I've seen the news, and as a child in the 80s I remember the footage of the exxon valdize spill. I know without a doubt that the best thing in the world at soaking up oil is air beathing marine wildlife: birds, seals, etc.
Each arduino would have an animal in a little bag (with its own air supply, I'm not cruel). Seawater would be pumped over the animal, which would soak up the oil and clean seawater would exit the vehicle. Once fully soaked the arduino woulddump the animal on shore where a team of do-gooding greenies would clean up the animal and return it to the wild (where it would be caught by BP staff and set in another robot).
The best thing is the clean-up people don't even have to know what's going on!
Little patches of oil would only attract particularly bored arduinos.
;D
Hold on, oil is a fuel. Surely any machine at all that could be fueled by crude oil could be set free in the sea and it'd help? Maybe capture exhaust gasses - this would mean full units would float, making them easy to collect, empty and redeploy.
Hold on, oil is a fuel. Surely any machine at all that could be fueled by crude oil could be set free in the sea and it'd help?
Crude oil is not the same as diesel fuel; heck, its not even close to bunker fuel, which is almost a leftover of the refining process. AFAIK, while you can burn crude oil, you can't power an engine with it (and you really wouldn't want to, either - the emissions alone would be pretty nasty, and it would like foul the engine before it turned many revolutions anyhow).