Back on May 3, 2010 I posted a blog: Any Suggestion of What To Do With The Oil Slick in the Gulf
Because I'm not an engineer, or even remotely capable of thinking like one, I did pose a suggestion: SUCK IT UP!
Perhaps all the years of domesticated bliss, running the vacuum made me think of it. But, that's not the point.
Early this morning I heard just a little quip on the news that an oil spill MUCH LARGER than what is occuring now had a very high rate of success.
And what was reported that they did? They sucked the contaminated water into SUPER TANKERS!
Hmmm . . . isn't that exactly what I suggested May 3rd?
Intriqued that this was something that actually WORKED -- and then wondering why in the hell BP is not doing that NOW -- I Googled some terms and found articles reporting what happened, where and when.
In Esquire on May 13, 2010:
- The suck-and-salvage technique was developed in desperation across the Arabian Gulf following a spill of mammoth proportions - 700 million gallons - that has until now gone unreported, as Saudi Arabia is a closed society, and its oil company, Saudi Aramco, remains owned by the House of Saud. But in 1993 and into '94, with four leaking tankers and two gushing wells, the royal family had an environmental disaster nearly sixty-five times the size of Exxon Valdez on its hands, and it desperately needed a solution.
Read more: Gulf Oil Spill Super Tankers
In AOL News on May 14, 2010:
- "The tankers worked for the next six months skimming oil off the water's surface and pumping it into tanks for cleaning. Cleanup efforts went on for several years after that. Still, that such an enormous slick could be successfully cleaned ought to point the way this time around, Pozzi says.
"My guys have worked on a lot of oil spills, and back in the late '80s and early '90s we figured out the best way to clean up oil through lessons learned," he says. "This is what we think they need to do. We know it works."
Or, as King puts it: "We just want them to get off their ass and use multiple solutions to clean this crap."
Read more: Could Cleanup Fix For Gulf Oil Spill Lie in Secret Saudi Disaster?
Hmmmm . . . Six Months of SUCK 'N SALVAGE vs. 30-40 years of Eco/Finanical MESS
SUCK IT UP BP!
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