tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5972843372998828082.post5759760114119152589..comments2024-02-27T03:44:14.807-06:00Comments on New Orleans Ladder: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5972843372998828082.post-57635093863251838882010-07-16T17:08:14.887-05:002010-07-16T17:08:14.887-05:00Ivor van Heerden on why it took so long “They [BP]...Ivor van Heerden on why it took so long “They [BP] had to fully research the problem..." <br /><br />That must be why <a href="http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-14/1277447504115260.xml&coll=1" rel="nofollow">BP insisted that knowing the actual flow rate was not important</a>...and why they kept outside scientists in the dark on the flow rate and other aspects of the disaster as well ...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/06/gulf-oil-spill-scientists_n_636981.html" rel="nofollow">Gulf Oil Spill: Scientists Beg For A Chance To Take Basic Measurements (July 6, by Dan Froomkin)</a> <br /><i><br /><br />Ira Leifer (scientist at Marine Science Institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara and member of the federal government flow rate group):<br /><br />"the lack of accurate information has taken its toll, he said. If BP had properly understood what was going on 5,000 feet below the surface, it never would have attempted to stop it with a "top hat." And had they realized the pressure from the oil reserves was beyond the threshold for "top kill" they wouldn't have wasted time on that, either.<br /><br />"We could have effective containment systems available now, if we'd had the measurements," he said."</i><br /><br />//end of Ira Leifer quotes<br /><br />But then again, van Heerden almost certainly knows more about this stuff than Leifer, whose university <a href="http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/people/Bio.php?cat=RS&name_first=Ira&name_last=Leifer" rel="nofollow">bio page</a> says he does a lot of totally irrelevant stuff <br /><br /><i>"Research Description:The chemical and physical evolution of oil slicks, quantifying oil and gas emissions from natural seeps and leaking wells, bubble chemico-hydrodynamics, turbulence, gas transfer, and fluid dynamics from breaking waves, hydrocarbon and fluid subsurface migration"</i>Horatio Algeranonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12988805467080448954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5972843372998828082.post-14949454290587270322010-07-16T15:39:27.130-05:002010-07-16T15:39:27.130-05:00Ivor van Heerden on why it took so long to shut of...Ivor van Heerden on why it took so long to shut off the flow:<br /><br />"They had to...design a structure that would be multifaceted and allow complete closure but also the ability to bleed off oil if needed.”<br /><br />Presumably nothing at all like what is <a href="http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/today/index.ssf/2010/07/thousands_of_abandoned_oil_wel.html" rel="nofollow">pictured here</a> <br /><br />Those things on the sides might look like valves -- but don't be fooled. It's <i>highly</i> doubtful that they would (or even could) "bleed off oil if needed".Horatio Algeranonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12988805467080448954noreply@blogger.com