“Mother of all gushers could kill Earth’s oceans”
May 13th, 2010
The original estimate
was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day spilling
into the ocean. Now they’re saying 200,000 gallons a day.
That’s over a million gallons of crude oil a week! I’m an engineer
with 25 years of experience. I’ve worked on some big projects
with big machines. Maybe that’s why this
mess is so clear to me.
First, the BP platform
was drilling for what they call deep oil.
They go out where the ocean is about 5,000 feet deep
and drill another 30,000 feet into the crust of the earth. This is
right on the edge of what human technology can do. Well, this time they hit
a pocket of oil at such high pressure that it burst all of their safety valves all the way
up to the drilling rig and then caused the rig to explode and sink. Take
a moment to grasp the import of that. The pressure behind this oil
is so high that it destroyed the maximum
effort of human science to
contain it.
The only piece of human
technology that might address this is a nuclear bomb.
I’m not kidding. If they put a nuke down there in the right spot
it might seal up the hole. Nothing short
of that will work.
If we can’t cap that hole
that oil is going to destroy the oceans of the world.
It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of ocean
water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to
get the magnitude of this?
We’re so used
to our politicians creating false crises
to forward their criminal agendas that we aren’t recognizing
that we’re staring straight into possibly the greatest disaster mankind will ever see.
Imagine what happens if that oil keeps flowing until it destroys all life
in the oceans of this planet. Who knows how big of a
reservoir of oil is down there.
that the oceans are critical to maintaining
the proper oxygen level in the
(It’s probably not quite that grave.
But what if it were?)
