The Dutch offered it 3 days after the platform blew up. At 146,000 barrels per day capacity that would mean they could have exceeded the capacity of the worst leak estimate of 100,000 barrels per day by 50%.
So yes, they could have “fixed it all” by cleaning it up at the source of the leak instead of waiting for it to get to the shoreline of 3 states.
Wow, what a story! Good thing the Obamachine has an iron grip on the liberal media, so that story doesn’t get out! Imagine of Fox News or somebody like that got the story, and totally verified those numbers, it would be crushing for them!
Don’t tell 'em, ok, Mag?
Yes, it will. Congrats on working Fox News into the debate.
Think about it. These skimmers would have a huge area to clean up. They just don’t stick a tube in the leak, it is a mile down or so. The oil leak is spreading all over. By the time they got the miracle boats to the gulf, it would have been too late. Their capacity is one thing. Their ability to clean up big areas is another.
It would have been something. That is what many people are screaming…“do something”.
I did think about it. My first thought was to coral the oil at the source and suck it up. Unless the laws of physics have changed the oil would float to the surface in the same basic location. For every day that passed with no action the oil expanded outward until it eventually hit the coast. This was a major screw-up.
The laws of physics don’t change. Your rudimentary undestanding of a flow 1 mile below the surface is clearly inadequate.
If it were easy to fix, it would have been done day one.
By default it was much easier to capture the oil when it was localized around the well. There was less area to deal with.
The offer to supply the booms was made 3 days after the accident. We lost 35 days of their use which means the oil had 35 days to migrate toward the coast in an ever widening circle.