How to Stop an Oil Spill


Don't bogart that joint ... of drill pipe.

Straight from the Gaian People’s Republic of Boulder comes this fresh idea for stopping the flow of oil from the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico: meditation!

“The basic concept is to try and get as many people to visualize that the valve is actually functioning and is working and closing,” said Carl Fuermann, a staff member in the University of Colorado’s Registrar Office. …

“I’m very known for fixing things and making things work,” Fuermann said, adding that he believes his meditation helped fix a friend’s Flip video camera. “I visualize things working and hold the belief that they actually work.”

I must admit, I find this idea … intriguing. This guy fixed a Flip phone; why not an oil well flowing 5,000+ barrels per day one mile straight down in the Gulf of Mexico.

Stranger things have happened. Why, just last week, my Blackberry was acting funny, so I shut it off. I removed the battery and meditated over it for about five minutes. Then I put the battery back in and turned the Blackberry back on: it was as good as new, thanks to the power of meditation!

More constructive advice:

Bourgoyne did have a piece of advice for the meditators, however, and that is to focus their visualization efforts on a process called “sanding out,” which can happen when the unconstrained flow of oil weakens the rock around the well bore. The rock can break apart and enter the well as sand, which eventually blocks the oil leak.

“If the meditators are seeking a common image upon which to focus,” he said. “I suggest they visualize tiny cracks spreading in the rock.”

Oh, no! Don’t do that! That’s hydraulic fracturing!

H/T LOGABoy

Cross-posted at VladEnBlog.


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Given how inefficient the aim is of most leftys,

janis (Diary) Wednesday, May 5th at 7:42PM EST (link)

I envision a whole population of folks with their carotid arteries just slamming shut like so many screen doors in a hurricane. So, for all you folks anywhere near the coast…..

DUUUCCCCCKKKKKK! Or at least make sure your heavy duty tinfoil hat fits securely and protects your neck.

 

Another effective way to stop an oil spill

cwb33 Wednesday, May 5th at 7:56PM EST (link)

is to have an acoustic regulator (what’s known as a dead man’s switch) attached to the drill. That way, in case of emergencies, the switch can be remotely triggered. In fact the government could require these switches be put on all drills… oh right, Dick Cheney did the complete opposite.

Awesome. Just awesome.

I love how Republicans wreck the government so they can turn around, point at it and say, “See, we told you government doesn’t work.”

Somebody "fix" this guy please.

roscopico (Diary) Wednesday, May 5th at 8:04PM EST (link)

While we’re at it… make him work.

Idiots like you are beyond help, and deserve a sincere curbstomp.

All the worst to you, jerk.

Im Himmel gibt’s kein Bier…

 

Aw, look at that, someone learned a new term from the MSM today

Leopard1996 (Diary) Wednesday, May 5th at 8:09PM EST (link)

My question to you douche. How do we know that they didn’t or that they didn’t have other safeguards in place that probably just malfunctioned. I am not here defending BP, but your little comment about Republicans is garbage on it’s face, and at this point, don’t bother replying to me, because I am calling Hinz rule and will ignore anything you say.

“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen

 

Would there, by any chance, be a dead man's switch on you?

janis (Diary) Wednesday, May 5th at 8:10PM EST (link)

And could we please have the name and phone # of the one who has the remote switch? It’s the least you could do…..

 

I didn;t know Dick Cheny actualy drilled for oil.

gekster (Diary) Wednesday, May 5th at 8:13PM EST (link)

They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.

We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway

Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved

 

Welcome to RedState, cwb33!

Steve Maley (Diary) Wednesday, May 5th at 9:45PM EST (link)

I have a question that may tax your petroleum engineering skills:

It has been established by several attempts at “hot-stabbing” this BOP with an ROV that the shear rams aren’t working.

What good would an acoustic signal do?

I await your response with bait breath.

The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.

Been eating chum again, Vlad? nt

janis (Diary) Wednesday, May 5th at 9:53PM EST (link)

Vlad the Impaler

roscopico (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 12:25AM EST (link)

not content to allow the hippies to hoist themselves on their own petard… Vladimir the hippie destroyer.

Im Himmel gibt’s kein Bier…

 
 

He didn't say BOP

JoeG Thursday, May 6th at 12:31AM EST (link)

He said:

“(what’s known as a dead man’s switch) attached to the drill.”

I have no idea how the bit could stop the oil flow.

Particularly if they were cementing the casing, when the bit would be sitting on the rig.

Yeah, I await it with bait breath too.

I take it, then...

Moe Lane (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 1:29AM EST (link)

…that this guy’s commentary was absolutely hysterical if you happen to know something about oil drilling.

Not necessarily hysterical

JoeG Friday, May 7th at 2:10PM EST (link)

Just indicating he’s parroting a talking point without really understanding what is going on.

When someone is talking about the “drill” they usually mean the bit at the end, or the drill string that consists of the drill, drill collars and instrumentation. It goes down at the bottom of the hole to drill deeper.

Up at the surface (seafloor in this case) there is a string of valves called the Blow Out Preventer(s) (BOP). At least one of these can chop the drill pipe off in case of a blowout. Incidentally, the bad ’79 spill in Mexican waters was due to the BOP trying to chop off the drill string, not pipe due to bad timing. It’s not strong enough to chop the drill collars or the bit, so it broke.

When he says “deadman switch attached to the drill” it is nonsense. The deadman is hooked to the BOP at the surface.

 
 
 
 

G'bye (nt)

Neil Stevens (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 12:38AM EST (link)

RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
Read the RedState Posting Rules

Unlikely Voter: Poll Analysis, Election Projection.

“I rejoice that America has resisted.” – William Pitt, the Elder

 
 

Moe, Neil, you might investigate this one's posting history; I call troll. nt

Achance (Diary) Wednesday, May 5th at 8:00PM EST (link)

In Vino Veritas

 

Thank god for this young man from Boulder,

Tbone (Diary) Wednesday, May 5th at 8:03PM EST (link)

Who has taken the weight on his shoulder
To stop the oil spill
with nothing but will
Just to be derided by those who are smarter and older.

Shame on you Vlad. LOL

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

I just can't keep up with reality

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 1:03AM EST (link)

Was gonna photoshop Zero w/ a couple of teleprompters at the beach, his hot air blowing the oil back South. Then this guy puts my idea to shame.

 
 

Not that this will surprise anyone...

mustango (Diary) Wednesday, May 5th at 8:09PM EST (link)

…but Boulder has joined in on the Arizona boycott.

“I just miss — I miss being anonymous.” — Barack Obama

I fully sympathize, Mr. President. I miss you being anonymous too.

Maybe we could have them meditate on the "cracks"

mbecker908 (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 9:11AM EST (link)

in the border with Mexico and close ‘em.

 
 

The Circle Closes

CVN_76 (Diary) Wednesday, May 5th at 8:20PM EST (link)

Who was it that said when man stops believing in God, it’s not that he believes in nothing, its that he believes in anything?

Perfect example.

I wonder how Mr Feurmann would differentiate his ‘beliefs’ from praying to any of the occupants Mt Olympus? Other than in his world “pray” is a dirty word, this isn’t at all different from praying to Poseidon or Vulcan or Hades.

Fortuna Favet Fortibus

 

I think this guy is on to something

jmadisonfan Wednesday, May 5th at 8:36PM EST (link)

(and apparently ON something as well . . .), maybe we can get all the lefties to meditate really, really hard on trying to make BHO’s presidency even more “successful” than it has been thus far. With any luck maybe all of their heads will explode.

 

Vlad ... about your "meditation" ...

yoyo (Diary) Wednesday, May 5th at 8:41PM EST (link)

– I removed the battery and meditated over it for about five minutes. —

Yeah, right. “Meditated.” Is THAT what you are calling it? More like “muttered,” to be sure. But it did get your Crackberry working again…

NEVER underestimate the power of cursing! It beats hammering someone/thing every time… well sometimes anyway.

Nemo me impune lacesset
“No one will provoke me with impunity!”
=============================
Pukin’ Dogs – The Fighting 143
Sans Reproache
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The ‘yoyo’ replaced my cigarettes January 22, 2006….

 

WE on the right prefer boobquakes for this sort of thing.

blooch Wednesday, May 5th at 9:18PM EST (link)

But good effort, hippies…and keep your clothes on, please.

“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”

I consider it a successful piece when I get both blooch and Tbone to crawl out of their holes and comment... nt

Steve Maley (Diary) Wednesday, May 5th at 9:47PM EST (link)

The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.

You and Moe. (nt)

blooch Wednesday, May 5th at 11:31PM EST (link)

“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”

 
 
 

I'm visualizing a cold coors light in my hand

hickorystick (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 12:53AM EST (link)

Meditation won't work

Duke Thursday, May 6th at 8:58AM EST (link)

While the moonbats are sitting around casually meditating on cracks in rocks, there are hoards of radical Muslims doing jumping jacks on their prayer rugs in meditation that the oil leak sprays hard enough to hit D.C.

I estimate the moonbats are outnumbered.

It’s not about a purge. It’s about an insurrection.

 

The great story here...

dennism (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 9:06AM EST (link)

… for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is the slow response of this guy with the meditative mojo. I mean, what’s he been doing all this time? Sitting around on his duff doing nothing when he could have been meditating all this time? It’s been 15 days now. It’s a scandal.

 

I was wondering where all the folks from...

RedBeard Thursday, May 6th at 9:18AM EST (link)

…the Moronic…er, I mean Harmonic Convergence were hiding. How fitting that this one is holed up in a university office.

Standard-bearer for grouchy curmudgeonry since, oh, 1975 or so.

 

Oil Spill

spiff Thursday, May 6th at 9:32AM EST (link)

Shouldn’t this article be headlined with “How to stop an oil BILL?”
Our Congress gave the oil companies a cap of 75 million dollars, any cost over and above that amount, we, the tax payers, have to pay…We don’t have a Congress of Representatives, we have a bag of power crazy lawyers running our lives…OUT! OUT! OUT!
Spiff

Spiff, with all due respect, you don't know what you're talking about.

Steve Maley (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 12:19PM EST (link)

See my post titled “BP,LLC”.

BP is fully on the hook to pay for cleanup costs.

What their liability is limited on is things like if they were to be sued by a hotel in Destin for cancelled reservations.

Or if a shrimper sued them for loss of consortium because his wife was upset about the bird being oiled.

Things like that. Everybody and his brother can cook up a theory of damages & a cause of action. With unlimited liability, it would keep plaintiffs’ attorneys busy for years.

Thanks for sharing.

The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.

 
 

Kept 'em busy for twenty years in the case of Exxon Valdez,

Achance (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 12:25PM EST (link)

and I think everybody lost consortium over that at some time or another. The good people of coastal Alaska did not do themselves proud over that.

In Vino Veritas

 

The deKalb receptors

Tanggor (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 1:08PM EST (link)

got fixed the same way. We just have to “reach out” to the Other world to get the power…

These people have jobs. Somebody actually pays them to do stuff.

They also vote.

Now I know why I sometimes wake from dreams in a cold sweat.

Jeez.

“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.” – George Washington

 

I can visualize

Melody Warbington (rwm52) (Diary) Thursday, May 6th at 1:31PM EST (link)

November from my chair. All together now!

The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (he that is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things. (John 4:25)