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Boy, 10, shows how to stop oil
Vid at link.Charlie and his dad enjoy fishing out of Perdido Bay where his grandparents live. The oil spill is messing up his fishing. If BP can't fix it, Charlie will. Charlie demonstrates a simple, quick and certain method for stopping the oil flow from the well-head. As Charlie points out, all that is required is a steel plate, a wrench and an underwater robot. The robot with a wrench attachment will loosen the bolts fastening the riser pipe flange to the blow-out protector flange. The bolts will be loosened just enough, and a couple removed, to allow space for a single steel plate to be inserted between the flanges by another robotic maneuver. Then the remaining bolts will be retightened to hold the plate firmly and to prevent any further oil leakage. Charlie demonstrates this simple solution using similar flanges and a plate to shut down the flow, and challeges BP to do the same. Problem solved. :-) Posted by: gorb 2010-06-16 |
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