How Long Would It Have Taken The Army Corp Of Engineers To Assemble A 1 Mile Long Tube?
 

Seriously - it sounds silly, but wouldn't that have worked?

Use a few subs to pull the bottom down and line it up, and then use it like a giant oil straw, or just cap it.

What am I missing?

honestly, I was thinking the same thing. But I'm not an engineer and I don't know the finer details of what they are actually dealing with.

Maybe it would have just been too easy?

Maybe this incident is playing out exactly the way that it is for a reason?

yeah, the simple solution is often the one that works best.

This Is The Most Likely Scenario :winkwink:

Just look at articles like this where BP is constantly turning a blind eye to real solutions.

Former Shell Oil Chief, Engineer: Supertankers Could Save the Gulf, So Why Won't BP Listen?

The pressure a mile down below the surface is enormous. It would be very hard to assemble and probably something which has never been done before. That would for sure be one heck of an engineering project if they pulled it off.

I don't doubt it would have had to be a HUGE undertaking, but even if it took 2 weeks and $Millions to accomplish, it would still have been worth it, in order to have saved $Billions in damages.

Anyway, that was just one idea. I'm sure we could get 10 more, just off of GFY!

How about launching an enormous non-exploding missile into the leak, to act as a giant cork?

I know these ideas are maybe childish, but now that we are 36 days into this, almost any idea is better than nothing.

I though to stop an oil leak you blow up the hole with dynamite...

Why can't we just send some torpedo down there and blow that shit up..

I want to know why there was no contingency for this type of thing. If I built an oil well that deep my first concern would be what happens when it leaks.

Everyone keeps making the excuse that this is so deep it makes everything very difficult, but that's even more evidence that there should have been a contingency.

Aren't oil rigs one of the most dangerous places on Earth to work? Everyone knows that, to think one won't blow up one day is just stupid.

I read newspaper articles that they tried to plug the leaking hole with tires and golf balls. How are they going to remove all the oil from the surface of the water? I have no idea. Someone asked if the oil could be ignited, so that the oil burns out and there is no more oil left? Maybe it can be ignited, but maybe that would kill even more nearby birds and creatures and it could lead to the whole oil refinery building igniting in a fire.

The last thing BP wants to do is plug that leak...they want that oil or whatever they can get. plugging it...c'mon fucking easy- blow it up or plug it, its not rocket science. There are many solutions to "plugging that leak."

People talk about a nuke, you dont need a nuke to seal that hole, a big explosion would suffice.

But BP wants the oil and so this shit has carried on and on while the destruction spreads.

Yyyyup. It's pretty damn sad. Their greed is going to do them in, and their greedy investors are even suing them.

Steven would do that to put out the fire, not stop the flow.....:thumbsup

Now that I think about it, the best thing they COULD do is light that fucker on fire at the blowout, and incorporate something up line like Area51 posted, maybe something that can shear the metal made to use that pipe.....not sure what they use? Seems like this should be a no-brainer for those that makes their living from this shit. This Sucks Bad

simple solution

well, there are more then one thousand engineers working on this 24/7 and you think people on GFY will bring some solution? while i agree that probably the more easier solution will win the competition how to kill that fucking well, i am not still sure if gfy can brought this solution :error

Billions of dollars in their hand..and tey cant even handle this

why not nuke the hole and have it collapse in on itself - like the russians suggested