Posted on 05/27/2010 10:06:42 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus
VACUUM AND SUCK THE OIL OUT OF THE GULF NOW!!!
In 1993, a massive 800 million gallon oil spill happened in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Aramco successfully cleaned up that spill. The lead engineer that cleaned that spill was an American engineer who worked for Aramco. His name is Nick Pozzi and is based currently based in Houston. Apparently Pozzi offered his solution to BP and Coast Guard and they promptly dismissed his solution. Was it too expensive?
It's a lot simpler to understand than the top kill. It simply requires oil tankers equipped with giant vacuums (think a massive wet/dry shop vac) to suck the oil and water into oil tankers. Using a centrifuge, the tankers have the capability to separate the oil and water. The water is filtered and sent back to the ocean. The oil is recovered and processed as usual.
The method has been validated by John Hofmeister, former CEO of Shell Oil. So why are we not trying it? Nobody seems to know.
In the Saudi disaster, Pozzi claimed 85% of the oil was recovered and was still usable.
Last night, President Obama was in my home town and I was listening to him. He said, "...We're trying everything."
Categorically not true, Mr. President.
Now I know that the White House aka the Executive Office of the President reads my blog. I know for a fact that someone in the White House is reading this blog. OK, how about trying commandeering tankers and vacuum the oil out.
WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAS NOT DONE
Oil has now hit Louisiana. It is no longer an abstract concept. Birds, marine life and wild life are dying. Livelihoods are being destroyed today and more are threatened.
1) Use the US Navy and the rest of the military to nationalize or commandeer oil tankers within our territorial waters. There are several oil tankers in US watersTODAY but they are mostly full because they are being used as holding tanks by the oil companies to hold oil till the prices go up.
2) Empty all the tankers we can find into the national oil reserve as soon as humanly possible.
3) Equip the tankers if they do not have the vacuums with the necessary suction equipment. My understanding though is most oil tankers have the vacuum capability.
4) Use Defense Department, NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's precise satellite capabilities to guide the tankers into strategic zones that could prevent crude from hitting shores.
5) Deploy all the tankers we can find to vacuum out the sea water and oil out.
Mr. President... you said you tried everything. No you have not. You said you will spare no expense.
Well?
They most likely refused him because what he does works. Why let a crisis go to waste?
“trying everything”... a month late.
nice work. thanks for showing up.
well, until friday, when you go on your second vacation in a month... don’t want to get over worked or stressed or anything.
All they have is a lot of hot air and piles of commie legislation someone drug out of the 1920's.
I think he’s doing nothing on purpose. It is his passive aggressive war on the South; he’s playing Lincoln like he promised.
Uh, yeah!
A disastrous spill, a disastrous photo op, a disastrous energy policy, a disastrous administration!
Obamalama dingdong said when he was campaigning that he was going to lower the sea levels.
“Lower the damn sea!”.
That’d make fixing it a whole lot easier. Bummer’s fault!
Skimmers have been working this spill since the first few days. They do “vacuum” the surface.
I wonder what qualified this woman for the job. Maybe she had extensive experience working on oil rigs? Perhaps she was a wildcatter? Or she had designed and overseen the manufacturing and installing of vital safety devices relating to the oil industry? I just couldn't imagine that she was given the appointment because she was anti big oil or she believed in green energy.
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