BP Oil Spill
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there is no hidden motive here people want cheap oil so to make more money corners must be cut.bl00dr0ck;4217253; said:
i think everyone should search for the other bp oil spill thread some great points were brought up
they laughed at me for such an ideaPharaoh;4216723; said:
i was thinking the same thing empty bladder in expand job done.
jcardona1;4217240; said:and is ridiculous as it sounds, i cant help to wonder if this is a conspiracy theory, some evil plot to change the face of the world as we know it.
thats funny we were talkin about that this weekend.there were 11 ppl that died but what if some of them were suicide bombers that worked on the rig. we never will know. this is gonna destroy alot of animals and ppls lives.it sucks
jcardona1;4217232; said:i remember when the first thread popped up long ago. the OP said this was going to be bad, and several people dismissed the comments and said this would get taken care of asap. how's that foot taste now?
Yea, but back then everyone believed BP would do whatever it took to seal the leak. Now we have learned they are trying to save any oil possible for the future. That's why they won't permanently seal it
Actually a hurricane can help clean out the oil.
Here's what a hurricane did to a previous oil spill:
HURRICANE TO THE RESCUE
But after three months in which nothing went right, Texas had some good luck -- or, to put it in a glass-half-empty way, Alabama and Mississippi had some bad luck. Hurricane Frederic, while plowing into those two states, sent tides of two-foot waves reeling into the Texas shoreline. Overnight, half the 3,900 tons of oil piled up on Texan beaches disappeared. And human clean-up efforts began putting a dent in the rest.
Even in Mexico, which had neither the resources nor the hurricanes of the United States, the oil began disappearing under a ferocious counterattack by nature. In the water, much of it evaporated; on beaches, the combined forces of pounding waves, ultraviolet light and petroleum-eating microbes broke it down.
``The environment in the Gulf of Mexico is used to coping with petroleum,'' says Tunnell. ``The seabed is crisscrossed with petroleum reservoirs, and the equivalent of one to two supertankers full of oil leaks into the gulf every year. The outcome of that is a huge population of bacteria that feed on oil and live along the shoreline.''
The bacteria as well as other marine life forms along the shoreline got a boost from a strategy employed by both the United States and Mexico: to more or less give up on stopping the oil spill from reaching beaches while concentrating on keeping it out of estuaries and wetlands.
Here's what a hurricane did to a previous oil spill:
HURRICANE TO THE RESCUE
But after three months in which nothing went right, Texas had some good luck -- or, to put it in a glass-half-empty way, Alabama and Mississippi had some bad luck. Hurricane Frederic, while plowing into those two states, sent tides of two-foot waves reeling into the Texas shoreline. Overnight, half the 3,900 tons of oil piled up on Texan beaches disappeared. And human clean-up efforts began putting a dent in the rest.
Even in Mexico, which had neither the resources nor the hurricanes of the United States, the oil began disappearing under a ferocious counterattack by nature. In the water, much of it evaporated; on beaches, the combined forces of pounding waves, ultraviolet light and petroleum-eating microbes broke it down.
``The environment in the Gulf of Mexico is used to coping with petroleum,'' says Tunnell. ``The seabed is crisscrossed with petroleum reservoirs, and the equivalent of one to two supertankers full of oil leaks into the gulf every year. The outcome of that is a huge population of bacteria that feed on oil and live along the shoreline.''
The bacteria as well as other marine life forms along the shoreline got a boost from a strategy employed by both the United States and Mexico: to more or less give up on stopping the oil spill from reaching beaches while concentrating on keeping it out of estuaries and wetlands.
The oil doesn't just disappear or evaporate. It sinks to the bottom of the ocean and forms tar balls or it will soak into the sand polluting ground water.
There is also no way for the oil to "evaporate" and even if it did it will come down somewhere else.
Water is not created or destroyed it is simply reused. Remember grade 3 science?
There is also no way for the oil to "evaporate" and even if it did it will come down somewhere else.
Water is not created or destroyed it is simply reused. Remember grade 3 science?
alyssatheurer;4218734; said:
Certain parts of oil DO evaporate. Ever wonder why you can smell it? The aromatic part IS evaporating!! The remainder can be dispersed, but in a large spill will most likely not be completely dispersed for a long time. Crude oil in and of itself it lighter than water and floats on water until it changes form or condenses into tar balls. Tar and crude oil are similar, but not the same exact thing. Given enough time it will completely disappear from view, but the question is how long!
