Next step to stop oil: Throw garbage at it

in other words...they don't have a fucking clue how to stop it


Venice, Louisiana (CNN) -- If using a massive dome to cover the source of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico doesn't work, crews are preparing for another option: clogging it.

Engineers are examining whether they can close a failed blowout preventer by stuffing it with trash, said Adm. Thad Allen, the commandant of the Coast Guard. The 48-foot-tall, 450-ton device sits atop the well at the heart of the

Gulf oil spill and is designed to stop leaks, but it has not been working properly since the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20 and later sank.

"The next tactic is going to be something they call a junk shot," Allen told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday. "They'll take a bunch of debris -- shredded up tires, golf balls and things like that -- and under very high pressure, shoot it into the preventer itself and see if they can clog it up and stop the leak."

Oil company BP, the well's owner, had attempted to lower a four-story containment vessel over the well to cap the larger of the well's two leak points. But that plan was thwarted Saturday after ice-like hydrate crystals, formed when gas combined with water, blocked the top of the dome and made it buoyant.

BP said it has not abandoned the dome plan. But Doug Suttles, the company's chief operating officer, told reporters that officials are considering the "junk shot" along with other possible solutions.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/09/gulf.oil/index.html?hpt=T1

How about a small nuke next? maybe they could take all the Redwoods out of Cali and throw em on the oil. I heard Bald Eagle feathers would clog it up best but only if used with polar bear fur.

PB

under high pressure......


why can't they just reverse the pressure and suck the oil out of the pipe before it mixes with the water in the Gulf?


Pipe it into a tanker and head to the refinery.

Like a slap fight will plug a volcano