The website of the US Congress Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee has started hosting a live webcam of the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico which is gushing from a well, 5000ft below the surface on the sea bed. I wonder if this is the deepest webcam ever?
It’s fascinating that this is the medium of choice – and for BP to allow it is an attempt at transparency in what is becoming an ever more costly and environmentally damaging situation.
You can view the webcam here, though having only launched yesterday afternoon, it is being completely overridden at the moment – I have seen it working a couple of times though and it’s quite an impressive feat.
If you can’t get through, take a look at some of the webcams in Florida which are receiving the brunt of the oil slick.
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The next time an oil or nuclear energy executive tells you that modern technology has made things much safer nowadays, ask him if modern technology can overcome
1. human error
2. poor decision making
3. equipment failure
According to the chief engineer on the Deep Water Horizon all three factors played a part in causing the disaster.
SAFE TECHNOLOGY will not save us from disaster.
There are so many less enviornmentally damaging , cleaner and safer forms of energy like wind and solar that we need to turn our attention to.
There are a lot faster and easier ways to reduce our dependence on oil like conservation and improving fuel efficiency.
Punching a hole in the bottom of the ocean to suck up oil that has been trapped for millions of years under a protective bedrock endangers the livelihoods of millions of people and can do so much damage to our environment that it may take years to recover
If we want energy independence for the next 1000 years we need to choose a energy source that is
1. cheap
2. abundant
3. environmentally safe and clean
4. universally available to everyone
Drilling at the bottom of the sea does not meet a single one of these criteria
why cant they bend the pole
Look, when one views the live web cam of the oil leak, there is clearly a main pipe with bolts below where the cutting is taking place, so, why not just unbolt the thing and bolt on a new cutoff valve (keeping it simple, for the stupid, for BP)?