Hurricane Season and the Oil Spill

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Disperse would have been the correct word to use. But good job trolling me, I need more coffee.
 
I know that. Crude oil has a lot of other elements which could potentially make it worse. Motor oil is just one of many components contained in crude oil.
 
Yeah but it rains so hard and the wind is so strong that it functions to break the oil up. There would likely be slicks pushed inland, but I think these absurdly scary scenario's you're reading and seeing on TV are more about pushing a political agenda as opposed to be factual with regard to a hurricane and the spill. The FACT is we do not know what would happen because we've never seen a tropical cyclone hit an oil spill of this magnitude. So everyone is speculating but there is quite a lot of evidence that shows rough seas and strong wind/rain function to break down surface slicks, though nothing on this scale before.
 
The redneck solution is the best i've seen so far. But it makes to much sense for the Gov / BP to use this method.

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no sir, not correct, crude oil could definitely be bad, but motor oil is refined from crude, the hydrocarbons in motor oil are definitely from crude oil but motor oil isn't really a component of crude, merely the carbon chains are refined out of the crude and used along with many additives to make motor oil (hope I'm making sense).
 
Why not attempt this on a small controlled area to see how it works instead of using the oil spill as a testing ground for unknown chemicals which have failed thus far.
 
pretty much this.

part of the problem is soaking it up, but BP simply doesn't have the necessary equipment to contain the problem (coupled with the obvious dilemma of a still-flowing source). using hay just relocates the problem from the surface/mid-ocean to the seafloor, which suffocates any life trapped under the newly minted carpet of oil-soaked hay.

I have no standing to say this with any degree of authority, but I'm fairly certain that suffocating the life on the seafloor is exponentially more damaging to the ecosystem than the currently floating pollutants.
 
If they left the hay in the ocean for a short period of time like 24hrs I think they would be ok. They can then skim the ocean to pick up the hay then send it off to incinerators. One County in FL already has a plan in place to drop hay if the oil slick starts shifting toward the coastline.
 
skim how? oil-soaked hay sinks, that's why it would suffocate life on the seafloor. they'd basically have to dredge massive tracts of seafloor to recover it all.

And then incinerate it? That's not really a well-thought out position, unless you want to argue the merits of trading oceanic pollution for atmospheric pollution.
 
I'm all for supporting out-of-the-box solutions (hence why I can understand bringing in David Cameron for consultation), but hay is simply unfeasible on the large scale.
 
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