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Thank you for watching my videos. It's Mike Radmann
May 30th, 2010
BP Oil Spill
I've included a link here to a live feed
provided via the
PBS YouTube site
and yes indeed
there seems to be an awful lot of oil flowing out of there
now of course the official estimate was 5000 barrels a day
well they've since bumped that up slightly
Currently in the last couple days they have
increased the estimate to somewhere to 12000 to possibly 18000
and I've included an article here
from the Telegraph "BP disaster worst oil spill in US history turns seas into a dead zone".
OK, we'll get back to that in a second
one of the other things of course is that these estimates are
ESTIMATES
They're guessing
It's just a big guessing game they don't want to freak people out of course
Currently the lower end is 12000 barrels per day. At the higher end
18000 or 19000 barrels a day, is actually not as high as some of the
predictitions that a second team used a different method came up with a range of 12000 to
25000 barrels a day
that's quite a wide deviation there.
Never mind - we're not supposed to notice that.
So currently it's running at around
12 to 19 to 25000 to who the he?? knows?, basically.
I would suggest it going to be even more than that.
I've included a link here - the worst Oil Spill ever
was from an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico
the Ixtoc
believe it is pronounced,
Ixtoc I
I've included a link here - a case study of the world's largest oil spill
and additionally a couple of links to what it actually looks like when you're
out there
well there's a couple of amatuer
watchers/news people who have been going out every week or so
with a camera in a small plane flying over the spill
now the first
video which I've linked here of course
BP the source from the 7th of May
effectively showing you what's really happening and how far this
oil slick actually is
and then a recent one from the 19th of May or rather the 17th of May is when they went out
showing the oil
being burned off
and uh, yeah...
One thing to note of course is that the Gulf of Mexico
has a natural oil leak going on and there are Microbes
and other little things at the bottom of the sea that like to eat oil - who knew?
I've included a link here from the Seattle Times with regards to the outcome to the
Ixtoc spill back in 1979
and how they discovered that it didn't kill off quite as much they thought it would
and indeed
the intertidal zone returned
to normal
after couple of years. Now of course
the main difference, big difference, between these two oil
drilling rigs
the Iztoc - basically it was drilling in fifty meters of water
so the oil came up and was actually gushing out of the top of the ocean
of course the current BP spill is at the bottom of the ocean
and is dispersing quite dramatically through various levels
of the ocean itself. So how much is settling on the top and in the bottom no one can tell us.
Nobody knows and nobody really knows the eventual outcome
of all of this.
Now I did some quick calculations here
now I might be slightly off but I checked them at least three times
25000 barrels a day
It took them 290 days to shut off Ixtoc I
So if it takes a similar length of time
so 25000 barrels a day
works out to 304 million US gallons
of oil that could potentially leak if it takes them 290 days to shut it off
304 million US gallons that's 1.1 billion liters of oil
if it takes them that long
and 480000 metric tons Now Ixtoc I
over it's 290 day period
when it was spilling
it leaked out approximately somewhere between 425000
450000 metric tons of crude oil
the current rate
somewhere around 25000 barrels a day it works out to roughly the same amount?
that's kind of interesting you'd think perhaps that has something to do with the pressure
under the sea
.. of the oil under the sea so perhaps the 25000 barrels
a day is not too far off
okay
what are we going to do about this?
of course there are many different ways we could potentially handle the situation
this is going to be quite a catastrophe
in the gulf of Mexico and of course its already impacting shrimp fisheries and all kinds
of other
fishery and
aquatic agriculture
It's not looking promising
okay Peace. Love. Understanding. Think about things.
They're not telling you everything.
Bye.