Posted on 06/18/2010 9:31:10 AM PDT by lbryce
Maybe because the coast guard stopped workers from cleanup to inspect life preservers and fire extinguishers.
Maybe because EPA stopped allowing the use of dispersants.
Corexit is a dispersant, not a solvent. 74 posted on Friday, June 18, 2010 1:21:45 PM by Skepolitic
Stop making sense! That is not allowed on this thread.
Um...aren't you the one that just called it a solvent? If Skepolitic is making sense, calling it a dispersant, not a solvent, that means you are incorrect in calling it a solvent. You get that...right?
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!
Because hundreds of people are trying to clean up the Gulf and would be in the way? /s
This is the sort of false dichotomy that liberals so often make. Maybe this whole Obama-Nalco conspiracy actually IS intended to make conservatives look stupid.
The dispersant cannot make contact with 100% of this enormous quantity of oil. Of course, a substantial fraction is still going to wash ashore. Also, the dispersant doesn't magically make oil vanish. It's purpose is to disperse the oil to accelerate biodegradation. Until the oil biodegrades, it's still there in seawater.
And let un not forget that Great Britian offered us half of their natural reserves of chemicals (eco safe) for use in stopping the oil, obama declined in favor of using a toxic based chemical from Chicago. follow the money,obama does not give a damm about the enviroment .
Here's some video showing what has already happened: Mystery Crop Damage Threatens Hundreds Of Acres
‘...Barack Obama knows how to campaign and score political points, but he’s feckless at just about anything else...’
Exactly! CIC in Mr. Obama’s case = Campaigner in Chief!
He has no experience in practical problem solving and he seems too arrogant to seek or accept input from those outside of his ‘inner circle’.
When one mixes chemicals with oil, such as this dispersant, other chemical combinations are released.
One can take chemicals that are ordinary ‘household’ cleaners, and make Crystal Methamphetamine.
It’s not as important as to ‘what’ elements are used to make something, as their relative quantities, and how their elements ‘combine’.
So, when you take this much ‘dispersant’ and mix it with the oil, and leave it at the mercy of the chemicals in the ocean, and the Sun drawing the vapors produced into the atmosphere , what happens?
Why are crops in the Mid-South being damaged by an ‘unknown’ cause? One that resembles what would happen if you sprinkled Benzene on them?
Or are we to assume that ‘contrails’ caused it all?
Here is the fact sheet on COREXIT http://lmrk.org/corexit_9500_uscueg.539287.pdf
Sad, things that can help this nation are a no-no for Obama and Co.
No problem, happy to oblige
Thank you for the info, I was looking for links to this myself and now I don’t have to.
Bad news indeed.
Good question. What happens? You must have missed my earlier post (and your 8th grade science class) about the scientific principles of evaporation.
Dissolved solids do not evaporate. This is why rain water is fresh water, not salt water. Simply stated, evaporation is nature's purification process. The water molecules evaporate, leaving the water's adulterants behind.
Of course, you're probably thinking to yourself, "What about acid rain?" Fair question. Acid rain is not acidic because of chemicals that have evaporated from bodies of water. Acid rain is acidic because of gases and particulates that are ejected into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels, primarily coal. These particulates then are captured in clouds by water droplets formed by water molecules clinging together. The water droplets, mixed with the acidic particulates grow too heavy to be suspended by wind and eventually fall to the ground. But is has NOTHING to do with evaporation.
Yes, the product being used in the Gulf is 9500A. BP even tested this on site at depth and demonstrated its effectiveness and safety such that the EPA has approved its use,even though it was already approved and on their list. So BP jumped through a hoop at their demand and tested again.
A link to the subject at Washington Post at the time, many many weeks ago and in that article is a link to APPROVED DISPERSANTS from the EPA:
Here are two useful links to the EPA National Contingency Plan Product List. These are all approved products, and by the way some of the other dispersants are seriously worse.
MojitoJoe:Please don’t quote wikipedia- it is open sourced you know. I do think the general public is woefully uninformed in chemistry, and the leftie lawyers like it that way. Fear sells. And I am NOT defending BP or NALCO, but they DID do their homework. The well needs to be capped, and all this fingerpointing knocked off.
http://www.epa.gov/emergencies/content/ncp/product_schedule.htm
and
http://www.epa.gov/emergencies/content/ncp/products/corex950.htm
If there is benzene in the air, you’d know it immediately. Crops fail for a lot of reasons. Now the fund is sort of in place watch people line up. Bonanza. But the well continues to gush. Thanks obambi, you’ve helped the tort bar a lot.
And how many of those six do not kill fish?
0 is harmless, 4 is bad jojos.
Health - 1/1
Flamability - 1/1
Instability - 0/0
Other - None
If you don't think the EPA is a liberal website, your "A" has fallen off, along with your brain.
Hysterical charges certainly seem to be more prevalent !
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