Gulf Oil Spill...

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by westgate

is that actually live or 'taped', or delayed, or ?

i ask cuz it's 12:24 pm here, the time on the 'video image' is just a little after 10am.
allowing for time zone changes; the well is central time zone, i'm eastern-there's only a one hour difference but the camera image/time display vs EDT shows a two hour+ difference.

hence, my question.

It's supposed to be live. At other times I've noted a delay of several minutes but right now it's frozen at 10:24:25. It may be down.

John

[Boreas]

The camera's up and running again. Current time display as I type this is 12:00:45.

[EDIT] That means it's about 1.5 minutes behind real time.

John

[Boreas]

Looking at the live feed I noticed that it's described as "Dispersant Ops". There's a blue hose at the lower left of the screen that appears to be injecting a dark fluid into the leak. Hard to tell. It may be that we;re seeing dispersant injected directly into the leak as it leaves the pipe (which I think they're doing) or it may be crude being allowed to leak so as to prevent the cap from icing up with frozen methane again.

John

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by Boreas

.. Taken together they're a pretty convincing argument in favor of a concerted Manhattan Project type approach to ending our addiction to fossil fuels.

John

Can't get youtube here, but I'm 100% on board with an energy project.

Pete

[westgate]

Originally Posted by Boreas

It's supposed to be live. At other times I've noted a delay of several minutes but right now it's frozen at 10:24:25. It may be down.

John

Originally Posted by Boreas

The camera's up and running again. Current time display as I type this is 12:00:45.

[EDIT] That means it's about 1.5 minutes behind real time.

John

Ah, much better.

stuck link in my signature area.

edit-not much is coming from bp feed...
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_inte...ov_stream.html

[j_b_rainey]

$20B is a joke. $50B would be closer to a STARTING point !

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by j_b_rainey

$20B is a joke. $50B would be closer to a STARTING point !

It IS the starting point, the whole idea was to get a reasonable and impartial negotiator at the helm, and that they have done. The way it was working (or rather not working) was displayed by the case of one applicant who proved his business brought in $27,000 a month - BP offered him $5,000.

The problem is with the slowness of the existing process, if you have a $20,000 loand on your fishing boat the bank wnats the monthly payment now, if they don't get you lose your boat. So if and when they clean up the area you have no way to earn a living.

It is sad watching the mental midgets yaelling "Why does Obama not stop the leak" - with what? Should he put on a deep sea diving suit and go down there with a big cork and a hammer. So when he does do what he can in trying to see that people affected by the spill get more immediate relief it's called a shakedown by some a**hole from TX.

[westgate]

multiple cameras now, so we can see them testing the new cap.

http://www.ustream.tv/pbsnewshour

'cept the screens are kind of small.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by westgate

multiple cameras now, so we can see them testing the new cap.

http://www.ustream.tv/pbsnewshour

'cept the screens are kind of small.

Apparently they're being VERY careful with this and easing the flow rate down really gradually. There's a fear that shutting it down quickly will cause the oil to just find another way out through the rock strata. Of course, this may happen anyway. The well casing has basically disintegrated.

John

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Apparently they're being VERY careful with this and easing the flow rate down really gradually. There's a fear that shutting it down quickly will cause the oil to just find another way out through the rock strata. Of course, this may happen anyway. The well casing has basically disintegrated.

John

That would suck.