BP Oil Spill Fix #15 – Channeling Martha Stewart?

June 21st, 2010. By AbiK

I’m ashamed to admit that after spending seemingly countless hours with a garden hose nozzle in-hand, I have not correlated it to a possible fix for the BP Oil Spill. (Clearly, I am no match for that self-made perpetual font of “good things”, Martha Stewart.) But, then again, that’s what folks like Elle and Steve are for. Elle, or Steve, or both of them, emailed this one to us. So as we now await—at day #63 of this mess—the upcoming ruling on whether the 6-month moratorium on deepwater drilling will be lifted, here’s their idea:

Fix the BP Oil Spill Idea #15

“Create a massive “garden hose” from tarp-like material. it should be 100 feet in diameter at the base to absorb the pressure  and funnel into a smaller size at the top. have divers (or something) secure the hose to the ocean bed around the pipe (pipe at the center of the hose). then funnel the oil into boats on the surface that are pumping the contents of the hose from
the center of the contained spill.”

100 feet in diameter—now that’s a lot of hose! But inspiration does, indeed, sometimes come from some of the simplest and most commonplace things…

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Thanks Elle and Steve!

Tags: BP, BP Oil Spill

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