Thread: New video of oil well head shows some amazing info...

You tell me what this is?

http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Den9CoYb0OHs


Compair to this video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgxW9M_B ... r_embedded

Then this with the cap? or what ever it is...the flow looks much worst then with out it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-rJH9xB7fk&feature=fvw

As a member of the population who are sane it is a good idea not to rely on documentaries put together by people who are nuts. Oh never mind I see it's you.

Edited video?

Originally Posted by TexasBorn

Edited video?

If it is...it is a very good one. And sense when does an oil well produce tar balls? There is just a lot of really weird things going on around this "spill"?

Actually what that shows is the effect of dispersants they are forming the tar balls. What I was being snide about is the obviously loopy Illuminati documentary that the clip is linked to.

Dispersants...disperce...it does not coagulate oil or make tar of oil.

A Rhode Island biomedical scientist said he is worried about the health effects of the Gulf of Mexico tar balls and oil dispersants.

Bongsup Cho, a professor at the University of Rhode Island, said the saturated hydrocarbons found in crude oil -- methane, hexane and octane -- evaporate quickly once in the ocean when exposed to sunlight and heat because of their low boiling points.

"These are the chemicals that can cause the respiratory problems in people involved in cleanup operations, but they are not the ones necessarily known as carcinogens," Cho said in a statement.

However, the tar balls and thick ooze washing up on beaches and into marshes cause more worry, Cho said.

"The tar balls contain the non-volatile, benzene-like, heavily unsaturated hydrocarbons with high boiling points," Cho said. "That's where there are a lot of toxins, such as benzoapyrene. This is a known human carcinogen, and it is used as a biomarker to detect human exposure to toxins."

Cho said another worry is the orange sheen seen on the surface of the gulf water -- the result of a chemical reaction involving the sun, crude oil and oil dispersants.

"Nobody knows what's in that color and how toxic the chemicals are," Cho said. "Companies keep the chemical makeup of the dispersants secret."
http://officialwire.com/main.php?action ... 8&catid=60

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micelle

Hardline that's Wrong!!!



BTW I have been involved in the clean up of an oil spill. I was working with my father calculating the amount of contaminated sand that would have to be dug up from a beach around 1972
<img src=http://www.macs2010.org/~/media/Macs_2010/HOVENSA_aerial_photo_crop_1.ashx?w=224&bc=white align=left> My family's farm is in the photo though not in much detail. It is on this hill back here.
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Originally Posted by hardlineconstitutionalist

Originally Posted by TexasBorn

Edited video?

If it is...it is a very good one. And sense when does an oil well produce tar balls? There is just a lot of really weird things going on around this "spill"?

Hardline, tar balls are a result of oil spillage. They are quite common on the Texas coast. And yes, I worked as a drilling foreman and production engineer for an oil company and you might say oil is in my blood. Calm yourself, this isn't a volcano or conspiracy. It's just a bad ass blowout that will be resolved.

I have no Idea what I am wrong about...dispersants don't make tar balls. From your post information:

Dispersants can be used to dissipate oil slicks.[3] They may rapidly disperse large amounts of certain oil types from the sea surface by transferring it into the water column. They will cause the oil slick to break up and form water-soluble micelles that are rapidly diluted. The oil is then effectively spread throughout a larger area of water than the surface from whence the oil was dispersed. They can also delay the formation of persistent oil-in-water emulsions. However, laboratory experiments showed that dispersants increased toxic hydrocarbon levels in fish by a factor of up to 100 and may kill fish eggs.[4]

A dispersant was used in an attempt to clean up the Exxon Valdez oil spill[3] though their use was discontinued as there was not enough wave action to mix the dispersant with the oil in the water. Dispersant Corexit 9500 is currently being used on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Dispersant Corexit 9527 was used to disperse an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico in 1979 (Ixtoc), used over one thousand square miles of sea. [5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersant

I guess tar balls are created by "wethered oil" what ever that means.

SARAH OWEN / News Herald Writer
PANAMA CITY BEACH — Weathered oil in the form of tars balls breached St. Andrew Pass on Monday and accumulated in and around the “kiddie poolâ€

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