Comments on: Vladimir? A-Whale? Another Tool ‘Overlooked’ for the Gulf

By: Beasley Beesmeal

Beasley Beesmeal — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:50:15 +0000

By: uhangtight

uhangtight — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:39:59 +0000

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/

By: qixlqatl

qixlqatl — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:42:41 +0000

But, hey, I’m a crusty old cynic…..

BTW, Vlad the Impaler..I like it

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:34:35 +0000

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.

By: Ron Robinson

Ron Robinson — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:44:23 +0000

…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…

By: Kenny Solomon

Kenny Solomon — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:56:53 +0000

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.