The jury is still out on the effect that the oil spill is having on the weather in the Gulf area. Has it caused intensification of the storms in the region? It is still too soon to call but... What about the surprise June Hurricane Alex, the first June storm of the Atlantic in 15 years? ...
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Methane Poses New Threat In Oil Spill
A recent article documents the fact that the oil in this spill has 40 % methane instead of the normal 5 % methane of a normal oil well. I suppose this could go a long way to explaining the excess charges that are being carried to the surface by the oil in the spill. This fact ...
A Second Gulf Oil Spill!
Unknown to most people there is another oil spill relatively close to the present one called the Ocean Saratoga. The plume is 10 miles long and started on April 30. Horizon, the much bigger one, started on April 20. Two problems here-spills close together in space and time. This 2nd well, Ocean Saratoga, seems to have a ...
BP Cap
That Cap that BP has put on the oil spill may not be the much touted panacea after all. It seems that up to a million gallons a day are seeping out of the leak but the maximum amount the device stops is 630,000 gallons a day under optimal circumstances. That leaves 370,000 gallons a ...
Oil Spill & Earthquakes
That 4.4 magnitude eq in the south Texas area might be more significant than I originally thought. What is the original reason for the spill-was it as said or possibly an eq in the area? What about the mechanism of a tower or rather the long pipe acting as a tower to attract discharges in ...