slush
iron eyes cody would be balling his eyes out right now if he were around to see that mess that is the gulf of mexico. more bad news came today that the 98 ton box with the dome on top that was lowered over one of the cracks gushing oil and polluting the gulf has hit a little bit of a road bump. response crews found that “dome’s opening was becoming clogged with gas hydrates — crystal structures that form when gas and water mix and are found in the low temperature and high pressure at the ocean floor…The hydrates accumulated into a kind of slush that clogged the opening through which the oil was to be funneled to the surface.” it’s going to take bp amoco a couple days to figure out what to do next.*
those socialist swedes have offered to lend a hand by sending a few “skimming boats capable of 50 tons of oil per hour from the sea and hold about 1,000 tons at a time.” they’re currently on standby and once they’re activated, it’ll take several weeks to get to the gulf.**
maybe it’s just me but it seems like they (bp, the feds) could raise the urgency level around this mess. it’s like they’re trying to pass a health care bill or something.
* reminder: the oil rig that sank on april 22nd, at the time of this article, it’s may 8th.
** in other words, the boats won’t arrive before memorial day if “activated”
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