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Location of Spilled Oil From 2010 Deepwater Horizon Event Found
Chipmunk100 writes: A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (abstract) claims to have identified the location of two million barrels of submerged oil thought to be trapped in the deep ocean following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill. By analyzing data from more than 3,000 samples collected at 534 locations over 12 expeditions, they identified a 1,250-square-mile patch of the deep sea floor upon which 2 to 16 percent of the discharged oil was deposited. The fallout of oil to the sea floor created thin deposits most intensive to the southwest of the Macondo well. The oil was most concentrated within the top half inch of the sea floor and was patchy even at the scale of a few feet."
It's a wasteland anyway now right?
According to leading chiropractors, oil is not only not harmful to marine environments, but is in fact highly beneficial! In fact, we should be dumping millions of barrels every year into the Gulf of Mexico, and should pay back all the money BP has to pay out back to them at one trillion percent interest!
Tune in next week, when I explain how the Koch Brothers are in fact the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
This will now get covered with silt and eventually become an oil reservoir for future generations a million years down the line. Bravo to BP for thinking so far ahead!
Free Internet?
You're the reason we can't have nice things like a free Internet.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Along with 30,000 pair-less socks
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Uh? At least 3200 km2 is about 1250 mi2. Is there a metric percentage conversion I'm unaware of?
Should be enough for some environmental wacko to sue BP somemore. What a scam. News flash. Oil seeps in the ocean all the time.
an ill wind that blows no good
ldrens' childrens' childrens' childrens' child. When the oil is "all" gone, it's not really. Thank BP. Thank Cheney/Halliburton. But most of all, THANK GOD!
tl;dr: My bad. I'll return it.
My buddies and I went down and vacuumed up all the oil a few weeks after it happened. Free oil, right? After we got back to shore, we realized that there's not much you can do with unprocessed crude, so we hid it in a sinkhole in my buddy's backyard. We were planning to "strike oil" when oil prices go back up, but if our little stunt has scientists scratching their heads then I guess maybe we could give it back. Will there at least be a finder's fee?
Hasn't anyone yet realized that oil is lighter than water and would not, therefore, sink to the bottom? I don't know what these geniuses really found.
As someone who was out there in the gulf documenting the effects of the spill, I'm disappointed that there is no actual details or data or maps indicating where actually the oil is located? Where are the details?
I'll join if you pay me.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
crude became what it is under very different conditions.
this will now get eaten and otherwide gradually decay into the biosphere.
laugh it up, people, zoom zoom zoom.
LAURA says you're just friends.
You are welcome on my lawn.
The dispersant Corexit was used to disperse the oil.. straight to the ocean floor.. The EPA told BP to stop using Corexit, which is carcinogenic and neurotoxic, and BP simply ignored that order--making potentially hundreds of thousands sick nearby. Oil is bad to touch, and Corexit is bad to touch, but the combination is a death-sludge. BP is a truly evil entity, in so many ways.
An endless bevvy of incredibly unfunny and pointless jokes? Check
Long, rambling anecdotal accounts that have nothing to do with the topic? Check
People whining about "environmental whackos"? Check
Token crazy using allcaps and the N word? Check
It's all so formulaic by now that I can't help but wonder whether they've replaced the shills with AI by now. That's really how bad the oil trolls here are at what they do.
How typical.
Aside from the fact that you're comparing the supposed collective seeping of a liquid into the ocean with human bloodloss and a bunch of random numbers you pulled out of your bum, I'm sure the fishers that are out of business due to the incredible damage to the marine food web are very thrilled that you think oil contamination is harmless, let alone the effects of Corexit, the extremely toxic that BP wantonly sprayed all over the spill to help hide evidence of the crime.
http://www.theguardian.com/env...
So now there are several hundred meter-thick swaths of death sludge, 100 meters thick in some places..
http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...
But a little oil's harmless, right guys?
Those are just minor details. You aren't supposed to ask questions of people who document the effect of humanity on the environment. They said it's down there. Believe them.
I would not be surprised is an AI system was involved....
The Wikipedia article on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill says, "The US Government estimated the total discharge at 4.9 million barrels ...." This article says, "The largest tankers trading today are comparable in size and can carry up to 2 million barrels of oil." So almost 5 million barrels were spilled in 2010, and the largest oil tanker can carry 2 million barrels.
The next time oil comes up uncontrolled from the sea floor, maybe this will work: Take an empty super-tanker, and cut a 100-foot hole in the top of it. Turn it upside-down, and lower it to the ocean floor. Lower it on top of the oil gusher, so that oil from the gusher will go into the tanker, displacing any air or water in the tanker. If the tanker fills with oil, pipe the surplus oil to another sunken tanker.
According to these images, the tops of tankers aren't completely flat. So the hole in the tanker won't be directly on the ocean floor. Since there will be a gap between the tanker and the ocean floor, there will be room under the tanker to move equipment to the gusher, to close it. While the oil company is closing the gusher, the tanker will collect the oil so that the oil doesn't pollute, and so that it isn't lost.
(If gold instead of oil were washed away, people would rightly complain that our national treasure was being wasted. National treasure is also wasted if oil is dispersed and lost.)
If BP likes another idea better, fine. Whatever idea they decide on, they should test and improve it now, so that they're ready for the next oil spill.
It has been removed from the environment.
I reserve the write to mangle english.
I mean sure but that's every thread from every story here. The people Are just crazy n
Another non-tech politically-motivated article with leftist comments. Shocker.
isn't amazing geologist use the same type of tests to find the best location to place an oil rig.the higher % of oil on the ocean floor,the better the odds of a successful drill.
Don't forget the conspiracy nuts. They're also in every thread.
Your father didn't. He smelt of them all the time!
I'm guessing it's a lot like chicken!