tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33244618.post5361469845352862431..comments2023-12-16T00:39:47.007-08:00Comments on Lassie, Get Help: Love your motherLuisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04042236324318156854noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33244618.post-71236112096619818822010-05-18T21:24:37.891-07:002010-05-18T21:24:37.891-07:00I believe he's referring to the "It hasn&...I believe he's referring to the "It hasn't failed - it just didn't work" quote by the BP chief operating officer.<br /><br />Fun links:<br /><br /><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/thoughtfulanimal/2010/05/fake_science_how_do_we_get_oil.php" rel="nofollow">How do we get oil</a>?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/05/if-you-think-you-have-a-sense-of-the-oil-spills-scale/56425/" rel="nofollow">Move the spill around</a> [<a href="http://e360.yale.edu/content/digest.msp?id=2420" rel="nofollow">outdated</a>?]Luisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04042236324318156854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33244618.post-37775453488062051852010-05-18T20:47:42.913-07:002010-05-18T20:47:42.913-07:00I don't follow you, Bill.I don't follow you, Bill.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18015219452269186971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33244618.post-47061666429151537102010-05-12T18:39:41.566-07:002010-05-12T18:39:41.566-07:00It hasn't failed? It hasn't FAILED!?!?
Whe...It hasn't failed? It hasn't FAILED!?!?<br />Where, oh where is that head banging on brick wall emoticon>Bill Fosherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14187927183252273258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33244618.post-87778433123518712552010-05-10T13:51:30.586-07:002010-05-10T13:51:30.586-07:00Sigh.
It's not clear to me that the calls for...Sigh.<br /><br />It's not clear to me that the calls for further regulation are based on anything like a rational assessment of what actually caused the oil spill in the Gulf. The major problem, it seems to me, is that <i>the blowout preventer itself failed</i>, and not, as the NYT piece (and several other articles, most notably the <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joe_conason/2010/05/03/norway/index.html" rel="nofollow">disingenuous Joe Conason piece in <i>Salon</i></a> from last week) tries to make out, a lack of auxiliary mechanisms to activate the blowout preventer. The reason we know this is because of a graf from the very <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704423504575212031417936798.html" rel="nofollow"><i>Wall Street Journal</i> article</a> Conason links to:<br /><br /><i>Unmanned submarines that arrived hours after the explosion have been unable to activate the shut-off valve on the seabed, called a blowout preventer.</i><br /><br />So, is there some reason to believe that a different actuator mechanism would have had better success than a robot actually at the scene of the blowout?<br /><br />The comparisons to Statoil Hydro's record are also misleading to the extent that they're drilling in far shallower water. One of the great problems associated with this spill is that it's under a mile of water. Whether that had anything to do with the equipment failures or not, it has certainly complicated capping the blowout.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18015219452269186971noreply@blogger.com