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| BP Gusher Includes (gasp!) Methane |
| 2010-06-18 |
| Texas Aggie prof studying impacts says it's 40% methane, compared to typically 5%. Could hurt fishies, but I don't think he realizes the Global Warming potential! AP - In early June, a research team led by Samantha Joye of the Institute of Undersea Research and Technology at the University of Georgia investigated a 15-mile-long plume drifting southwest from the leak site. I thought everything was going northeast, to the beaches and marshes. They said they found methane concentrations up to 10,000 times higher than normal, and oxygen levels depleted by 40 percent or more. The scientists found that some parts of the plume had oxygen concentrations just shy of the level that tips ocean waters into the category of "dead zone" - a region uninhabitable to fish, crabs, shrimp and other marine creatures. Including the bugs that digest the oil and gas, until, I suppose, it drifts into oxygen-rich waters. BP spokesman disputed Joye's suggestion that the Gulf's deep waters contain large amounts of methane, noting that water samples taken by BP and federal agencies have shown minimal underwater oil outside the spill's vicinity. "The gas that escapes, what we don't flare, goes up to the surface and is gone," he said. See? And then it mixes with our air, and becomes a potent greenhouse gas! |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #8 The gulf has over 5,000 natural oil and gas seeps. They deposit 500,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf every year without one human being involved. In addition, as summer comes on, a dead zone appears every year off the mouth of the Mississippi. It is caused by the increased amounts of fertilizer in the river due to farming upstream. The flora in the Gulf love it and explode in reproduction creating an oxygen dead zone. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2010-06-18 23:00 |
| #7 HMMMMM, HMMMMMM, wehell lessirree, To wit, * YEAR 2013 > NASA says MASSIVE SOLAR FLARES/STORMS may occur + severely harm HUMTECHS iff not destroy Human Civilization. SUN HARMS OR DESTROYS EARTH??? versus * GULF OIL GUSH > MONTHS, YEARS? + DECADES? LONG UNCONTROLLED GUSH > the PRO-OWG PRE-OWG HARMS OR DESTROYS SAME + HUM CIVILIZ + EARTH. EARTH DESTROYS EARTH??? This is why, VIRGINA, 'CUZIN PARIS HILTON, LINDSAY, etal. must demand that CAPT. JEAN-LUC PICARD being hanged from the Nearest Highest STARFLEET YARDARM for failing to build the STAR/SUN-DESTROYING NEXUS MISSLE to force the MILYUHN-EARTH SIZED SUN TO SURRENDER TO EARTH-SIZED EARTH! D *** NG IT, 2013? Year 2018 - 7 Years = Year 2011, NOT 2013??? WE MISSED OUR MISSLE QUIZ + MATH QUIZ + 1980's MTV HEADBANGERS BALL THAT MONTH, DIDN'T WE! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-06-18 20:42 |
| #6 Ah, yes, Richard C. Hoagland. Advanced civilizations on moon, Mars. Well, when she blows, it will be like this, except underwater. Of course, the whole well head could fall over and break off due to leaks and erosion below the ocean floor. |
| Posted by: KBK 2010-06-18 13:21 |
| #5 Absolutely, bound to happen. BRB, off to pray for an asteroid. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-06-18 13:12 |
| #4 found it: http://www.forumeter.com/video/232054/Richard-C-Hoagland-reports-on-BP-oil-spill-gas-bubble-Part-1-of-2 |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-06-18 11:11 |
| #3 Listening to late night radio while drifting into la-la land, I heard part of a Richard Hoagland discussion on the vast amounts of methane associated with the well site. Supposedly it was responsible for the blowout preventers not being sufficient and a bubble about 20 miles across is forming. He said if it blows, it would dwarf Mt. St. Helens and devastate the coastal areas. This makes it impossible to seal making this spill a nightmare that won't end. Take Coast to Coast with a grain of salt but I guess there is a youtube video out there. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-06-18 11:04 |
| #2 Please! Call it "natural gas"... |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-06-18 11:00 |
| #1 Attention all gulf fish: Don't swim into that nasty, oily shit, OK? Thank you, that is all. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2010-06-18 09:53 |