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IDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 05:34 PM Original message |
'Super skimmer' a giant bust in Gulf cleanup |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. This being the machine that a lot of people were jumping up and down about |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 05:58 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Yep. |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 07:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
25. Way back when the leak first happened |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. I wonder how much of the problem was because of the dispersants |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 06:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Good question. On the other hand, my impression is that there is |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 07:08 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. my thought exactly... |
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another saigon (450 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 09:02 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. exactly |
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juajen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 12:53 AM Response to Reply #14 |
23. Yes, they have. I heard that explanation on Anderson Cooper's show |
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Autumn Colors (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
3. So it collected water & dumped oil back into the Gulf??? (nt) |
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BlueIdaho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
7. I wonder how Costiner's system is working. nt. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
8. so, no one bothered to test this thing before bringing it half-way-round the world? |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 07:39 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Bobby Jindal approved it sight-unseen. |
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bluedigger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 08:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Where would you test something like that other than the first big spill of opportunity? |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 09:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. There certainly would have been ways to test the technology |
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Doremus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 09:02 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Well, I guess they could have purposely overturned an oil tanker or something to test it elsewhere |
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Downwinder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 09:35 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. Proof of the "Peter Principle." When all positions are filled by incompetents. |
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pinboy3niner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
10. There's a Super Skinner bust? |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
15. I just looked at that...there's no way it can work |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
17. "Wait wait wait wait wait..." |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-16-10 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
18. Not clear if its a fundemental flaw or if its correctable |
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Merchant Marine (650 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 02:51 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. The problem is that this is a jury-rigged vessel |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 04:58 AM Response to Original message |
20. If they hadn't dispersed the oil, it might have worked. |
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onestepforward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 05:37 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. The owner thinks so too. |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 07:27 AM Response to Original message |
22. They're saying it would have worked if they'd used it BEFORE the Corexit. n/t |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 02:33 AM Response to Original message |
24. Golly Gee, you mean oil mixed with millions of gallons of dispersant |
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