Apparently it’s a skimmer large enough to scoop up in 2 days all the oil we’ve been able to skim in 68 days. (We’ve skimmed 600,000 bbl so far on 68 days. The A-Whale can skim 500,000 bbl in one day.
Why didn’t the administration get this ship into the game 60 days ago?
Because it’s Taiwanese owned?
Because it’s registered in Liberia?
Because th EPA hasn’t ‘approved’ it yet?
Maybe the coast guard hasn’t counted the life jackets yet…
So it’s new and untried. Send it.
Now we know it’s not just that they are not trying hard enough in the ‘Ongoing Administration-Wide Response’.
They’re not trying at all.
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Dan Spencer
Jeff Emanuel
Neil Stevens
For a second there.......
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 10:56PM EDT (link)Ron, I thought you were calling Vladimir a whale and a tool for The Gulf.
Whew.
No more Southern Comfort for me while on the interwebby thing.
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Seems like a good (and very interesting) piece of equipment.
I bet it works as advertised, if not better.
…..and that’s exactly why our Dictator In Training Pants will never go for it.
Naw, just wanted Vlad's Opinion
Ron Robinson (Diary) Sunday, June 27th at 11:44PM EDT (link)…to get Vladimir’s take on it – he’s an expert and probably knows more.
I like Vlad – and with his contributions to RS we should give him the full honorific he deserves…. Vlad the Impaler…
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California Republican Central Committee
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The Precinct Project
Unified Patriots – How-To: Activists Taking Action!
By all means, use it.
Steve Maley (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 7:34AM EDT (link)It would surprise me a little if A Whale were a game-changer, but in a crisis like this, you try everything.
I don’t know anything about how it collects the oil, but any system can only collect what it can contact. The problem is that this spill is so widely dispersed.
There are 430 smaller skimmers at work right now. A Whale will be as effective as 10? 30?
A lot would depend on how the oil comes to the surface. If it comes up as a more or less solid plume, A Whale may have a shot at collecting much of it before the plume spreads out.
Let’s see if that’s how they deploy it.
The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.
I rather doubt that it gets deployed at all.
qixlqatl (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 7:42AM EDT (link)But, hey, I’m a crusty old cynic…..
BTW, Vlad the Impaler..I like it
“Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.”
George Gordon Noel Byron
this is something I have always thought..
uhangtight (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 1:39PM EDT (link)They don’t want this fixed, that doesn’t fit their AGENDA…
As I said below.. we are in a civil war with the Lords of the Bureaucracies….the Acronym Departments of the Central Government..
http://www.redstate.com/uhangtight/2010/06/26/tea-partytea-partybut-is-the-movement-enough/
like the oilwell, his presidency is Broken...
speciallist (Diary) Monday, June 28th at 1:50PM EDT (link)