The National National Center for Atmospheric Research has generated a computer model that shows the projected path of the BP oil Spill.
The prediction shows where the oil slick may be 3 months from now, which coincides with estimates on when 2 relief wells presently under construction should be completed.
"BP executives initially claimed that the Deepwater Horizon was only leaking 1,000 barrels of oil a day when the spill began. Then they admitted to leaking 5,000 barrels a day.
Now, official estimates put the rate of the leak at 12,00 to 19,000 barrels a day. At 42 gallons a barrel, that means there is nearly a million gallons of oil and gas filling the Gulf every day.
It has been suggested that Tony Hayward has been underestimating the scope of the BP oil spill disaster to avoid costly per-gallon EPA fines and lawsuits."
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time wise you might be ok. it's hard to tell. i would guess since
it hadn't reached land yet, it would still be a couple of months away
from NC.
I live in Florida. I think there are going to be a lot of beach side suicides.
I just flew over the slick yesterday (06/03) from Pensacola to Houston. At 17:43 EST I could see what I suspect to be surface "light sheen" in the distance directly offshore from the Florida/Alabama border. It looked like fingers of a lighter color blue swirling into the darker blue of the pure water closer to shore. I could see it with the naked eye much more clearly than the photo depicts. I continued taking photos of the Gulf of Mexico until 18:40 EST when the cloud cover became too thick. The final photo is of thicker oil globs floating like bronze paint splattered on top of the water. I will post these photos on facebook either today or tomorrow.
Would anyone who has experienced concentrated areas of subsurface oil while fishing, diving, etc in open waters PLEASE send a report to the NOAA. In NOAA's report "Hurricanes and the Oil Spill" that was uploaded today (06/04) their current status claims that "All of the sampling to date shows that except near the leaking well, the subsurface dispersed oil is in parts per million levels or less." I heard first-hand accounts from lower Alabama that this is not true and there are concentrated areas of subsurface oil as deep as 500 feet.
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The good news are, an old dream of humanity turned into reality: Very soon, people can refuel their cars from the sea. And even sardine- and tuna-canners can benefit: They don't need to add oil.
Great work with the hay - I also thought that any bulky cellose (floating) material as absorbant would speed clean up - problem is the scale but Hay might be the answer (maybe even add some raw cotton) The World's excess shipping containers could be trucked to Hay producers and packed on the farms - then trucked or railed to Ocean freighters for offloading onto to smaller barges which inturn would deliver hay to the dispersing fleet; and return empty containers to the next arriving loaded freighter, containers then exchanged at sea. Works on paper !!
There are many plus' coming to mind about using hay for sopping oil. One is that it might drag up & stack (sorta) or make for large floating 'matts' even after it is oil laiden thereby freeing the skimmers to skim while another crew of vessels deals with extrication from the surface. Large hay/oil matts would likely be easier to control during rough seas and the inevitable storm/or possible hurricane. Also would it be possible to cable through the centers of round bales and create large sturdy 'hay boom' that would better withstand storm surge. Let's face it, after a big storm all the miles of boom that's in the gulf is probably going to end up being more in the way when its torn apart/ deflated / toppled etc. We're going to have a 'boom-spill' to deal with too. Another hugh aspect of 'mass haying' is the ability to mitigate some economic problems with farmers/fishermen etc. and provide jobs from the 'clean-up' but not necessarily on a boat or a coastline, but throughout region.
The hay idea sounds promising. Why not cover the beaches and as far outward as possible? Whatever can be done needs to be done Now. Does anyone wonder why so many mistakes and so little progress is being made? This is a grim situation.
The answer to the oil spill in the Gulf: Oil eating Microbes.
Microbes Will Eat Oil and Turn It Into Non-Toxic By-Products! Why Aren’t We Using This BioTechnology For The Gulf Oil Spill?
Watch this youtube video.
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"Microbes have been around a long time and they've been used in situations like this before.
"We have microbes that are adept at eating sewage," We have microbes that are adept at eating grease. and we have microbes that are adept at eating oil. Get the word out! Save our Earth!
I hope that there will be a massive civil movement, that people will take to the beaches and wetlands themselves, treading carefully in order not to upset the remaining wildlife, and try to keep at least as much of the oil as possible out of the wetlands, off the beaches, to be gathered by skimmers and separators. God bless the lost wildlife, who suffered so needlessly. I am ashamed.
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it looks as though the state of florida will suffer the worst of it, how ironic that florida is the only state on the gulf that does not allow drilling offshore.
This model is complete nonsense. The skimming ships in the gulf can't even find oil to skim anymore. Yet, according to NOAA, the oil is going to reach Europe? It didn't even make it out of the Gulf. Alarmist nonsense. People may hate to acknowlege this, but oil is an ORGANIC compound. It will be absorbed, and life in the Gulf will be unaffected a year from now. People should stop wishing for disaster, and court reality once in a while.
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