U.S.: Should We Nuke The Oil Spill?
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A former nuclear submarine officer and Iraq veteran has suggested that we think in radical terms in ending the massive oil spill in the Gulf coast, including using a nuclear bomb.
But the idea by Christopher Brownfield, who is now a visiting scholar on nuclear policy at Columbia University, is not as far fetched as it sounds. Brownfield says BP is less interested in stopping the leak, but in catching the oil. It's ill-prepared to use major explosives to seal the oil well.
But the military has the tools to seal it. Soviet military used nuclear explosives on four separate occasions, beginning in 1966, to seal off runaway oil and gas wells under water, according to Brownfield. The issue is if Obama would go a route that would alienate many of his supporters on the left.
But the idea by Christopher Brownfield, who is now a visiting scholar on nuclear policy at Columbia University, is not as far fetched as it sounds. Brownfield says BP is less interested in stopping the leak, but in catching the oil. It's ill-prepared to use major explosives to seal the oil well.
But the military has the tools to seal it. Soviet military used nuclear explosives on four separate occasions, beginning in 1966, to seal off runaway oil and gas wells under water, according to Brownfield. The issue is if Obama would go a route that would alienate many of his supporters on the left.
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Crazy Bill 2010/05/19 02:31:27I think ...
+7That video looked like an H-bomb and not a simple fission bomb. A 50 Megaton blast like that would cause a Tsunami that would wipe half of Alabama off the map. A 15 Kiloton fission bomb would leave a lot of radiation. Choose your poison.
Just all the lifeforms that exist on it are.
Conventional explosives can achieve the same of course, but you need a lot of explosives to seal the well completely. Nuclear is cheaper and faster. Russia has done it before to stop catastrophic oil leaks.
Unrelated note:
Check political donations of BP to Obama and other Democrats. Could it be the explanation why Obama excepted BP from regular inspections in 2009? Could it be the explanation why Obama didn't do anything for 9 days after the catastrophe? Could it be the explanation why Obama still lets BP to handle the problem?
Under Obama administration in 2009, BP got a complete EXCEPTION from any government inspections. Explain that somehow with Bush please.
Btw, I am not a Republican, so I could care less what Bush did or didn't do. Throw them all out from Washington, DC, both Republicans and Democrats, and I won't cry.
http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
Obama biggest recipient of BP cash
http://www.politico.com/news/...
Obama biggest recipient of BP cash
While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions in campaign contributions they’ve taken from the oil and gas giant over the years.
BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Donations come from a mix of employees and the company’s political action committees — $2.89 million flowed to campaigns from BP-related PACs and about $638,000 came from individuals.
On top of that, the oil giant has spent millions each year on lobbying — including $15.9 million last year alone — as it has tried to influence energy policy.
During his time in the Senate and while running for president, Obama received a total of $77,051 from the oil giant and is the top recipient of BP PAC and individual money over the past 20 years, according to financial disclosure records.
An Obama spokesman rejected the notion that the president took big oil money.
“President Obama didn’t accept a dime from corporate PACs or federal lobbyis...
http://www.politico.com/news/...
Obama biggest recipient of BP cash
While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions in campaign contributions they’ve taken from the oil and gas giant over the years.
BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Donations come from a mix of employees and the company’s political action committees — $2.89 million flowed to campaigns from BP-related PACs and about $638,000 came from individuals.
On top of that, the oil giant has spent millions each year on lobbying — including $15.9 million last year alone — as it has tried to influence energy policy.
During his time in the Senate and while running for president, Obama received a total of $77,051 from the oil giant and is the top recipient of BP PAC and individual money over the past 20 years, according to financial disclosure records.
An Obama spokesman rejected the notion that the president took big oil money.
“President Obama didn’t accept a dime from corporate PACs or federal lobbyists during his presidential campaign,” spokesman Ben LaBolt said. “He raised $750 million from nearly four million Americans. And since he became president, he rolled back tax breaks and giveaways for the oil and gas industry, spearheaded a G20 agreement to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, and made the largest investment in American history in clean energy incentives.”
In Congress, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), who last week cautioned that the incident should “not be used inappropriately” to halt Obama’s push for expansion of offshore drilling, has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of BP’s largesse. Her comments created some blowback, with critics complaining that she is too blasé about the impact of the disaster, even though she was among the first lawmakers to call for a federal investigation into the spill.
As the top congressional recipient in the last cycle and one of the top BP cash recipients of the past two decades, Landrieu banked almost $17,000 from the oil giant in 2008 alone and has lined her war chest with more than $28,000 in BP cash overall.
I hope this house of cards falls squarely on Obama's head.
a) deal with minor radiation poisoning cases for some time, but stop leaking oil everywhere, or...
b) don't have any radiation cases, and let the oil keep killing everything off.
Above you go on quite a bit of a tyrade but don't seem to mention anything about how we should handle the spill itself, given sufficient funds and personally responsible persons. If you've got nothing, and explosives will mitigate further damages, why not run with explosives?
Read these: http://www.huffingtonpost.com...
http://dailypaul.com/node/134517
As for collecting the hay and burning it up - that just continues pollution. You're pretty anti-pollution to be talking about that...
Also, do you have the latitude and longitude of the spill, and can you use this information to tell me what the cases of radiation poisoning would be like, in the event we used a nuke?
The particles contain mostly sea salts with some water; these can have a cloud seeding affect causing local rain out, underwater bursts the visible surge is, in effect, a cloud of liquid (water) droplets with the property of flowing almost as if it were a homogeneous fluid. After the water evaporates, an invisible base surge of small radioactive particles may persist... http://www.globalsecurity.org...
Effects of Ozone and marine life - http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ozon...
you need to learn science.
It's called pragmatism. Mitigation of losses. Sometimes reality sucks and we have to deal with it. Hippies don't get anything done.
Revelation 16:3
The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died.
Revelation 8:8
8The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, 9a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset were seen:
Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown,
That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,
And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed;
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!
And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide,
But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride;
And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,
And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.
And there lay the rider distorted and pale,
With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail:
And the tents were all silent, the banners alone,
The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,
And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal;
And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
by Lord Byron
Yeah.. that's the God I serve. I am not ashamed.
Read the actual story in the Bible, do some research. Maybe that will help you.