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Originally posted by jeffrybinladen
Here's my solution to the newest problem!
CALL IN A SUPER TANKER YOU OWN 20 OF THEM
It's not as easy as funneling it directly into barges that can take it to shore, said Darryl Bourgoyne, director of the petroleum engineering research and technology transfer laboratory at Louisiana State University.
Originally posted by Unit541
reply to post by jeffrybinladen
Thanks for the link. I especially enjoyed the last part:
It's not as easy as funneling it directly into barges that can take it to shore, said Darryl Bourgoyne, director of the petroleum engineering research and technology transfer laboratory at Louisiana State University.
Uhh... isn't that how you get the oil from the sea to the shore? Put it in a boat and haul it in? I guess they could just teleport it to the refinery...
Originally posted by jeffrybinladen
So coast guard has to oder BP ton have *snap* right?
Originally posted by NotAgain
reply to post by jeffrybinladen
I can understand you being pissed off, but that's probably due to your lack of knowledge when it comes to a Oil Spill as large as this. We can all speculate and say "They should of done this and that" but at the end of the day we are not qualified to make such claims.
These tankers are huge things, keeping it in position to collect the oil is probably no easy task... Also most of this oil is probably contaminated, in turn this means the tanker storage tanks would become contaminated too. Pretty sure they probably need some tankers to collect oil from other wells.
I am of course speculating as well, but I aint getting pissed off about it.
What I would like to know though is, What are they going to do with the collected oil. I can imagine it's full of Sea Water, Dispersant, and god knows what other crap.