Submission + - Plan C - Liquid Chimney to collect the oil (1hr.com)
ahaveland writes: The sight of the oil leaking uncontrollably led me to try and do something about it (like many), so I thought a syphon or liquid chimney would collect all the exudate from the stricken Deepwater Horizon well because it is less dense. Hopefully it will cope with clathrate formation, and carrying capacity, but I can't see any other downsides and should be cheap, using not much more than a 5000ft section of readily available oil pipeline, wide enough not to clog. Like a hot gas chimney, it should work like a vacuum cleaner!
I publish it here for you all to shoot it down in methane flames. (I've been slashdotted before and survived!)
I publish it here for you all to shoot it down in methane flames. (I've been slashdotted before and survived!)
