Hurricane Season and the Oil Spill

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A lot easier to scoop up a solid than a floating liquid. You're an example of why no solution will ever be found.
 
It'll help the hurricanes spin faster...i mean with all that lubrication and everything...watch for record wind speeds
 
honestly, I would imagine (in my deeply ignorant understanding of climatology, meteorology and fluid mechanics) that a hurricane would actually be helpful in diluting the accumulating volumes of oil to a more acceptable level. Sure, it spreads it over quite a large area, but twenty ppm of crude is much less dangerous than 10,000 ppm - or whatever the numbers may be.
 
even if a hurricane broke up the oil already on the surface the bad part about is the rough waters will stop capping procedures and more oil will still be leaking in however many days it takes for the storm to pass.
 
No one is getting it: That oil has to go somewhere. In this case, a lot of it would be forced on to land in via storm surges, then soaked into the land. Yes, that would definitely dilute the remaining oil in the water to more acceptable levels... while causing a plethora of new problems.
 
Thank you for that explanation. We all stand humbled by your ethereal greatness and unquestionable wisdom. Could you take a minute away from your unwavering commitment to solving all the worlds problems to take out the trash? Your mom has asked you like 3 times already and I can hear her yelling from here....

Thank you.
 
It's a lot easier to contain and clean up one big slick than 1000 little slicks, plus oil contaminated marshland, cities, landscapes, estuaries. Right now the oil is mostly in open water.

Ever tried to scoop cooking oil off the surface of water once it has been shaken up and dispersed across the surface? A lot harder than one solid blob.

I'm amazed at the stupidity of the people who think a hurricane would be a good thing.

Next counterpoint to my argument: "But cooking oil is different to crude oil."

It's the same damn principle. They both are lighter than water, don't mix with water, and stick to shit and are difficult to unstick.
 
OMG. It's easier to skim it when there's one big mass than 1000 little masses of oil. You may never find it all.
 
Its also a lot easier to throw hay and hair into one big oil slick and work across it than 1000 little masses of oil. Skimming > Hay and Hair.

Its more efficeint, easier to utilize the gathered materials, and it doesn't involve diverting our nation's hay supply to the ocean. The redneck slack jaws who suggested it must be Hay farmers or have their hands in the industry because any farmer who consumes that hay should have screamed bloody murder at that suggestion.
 
the NOAA put together a pretty good PDF on this topic


http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/book_shelf/2076_hurricanes_oil.pdf
 
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