Here is what I have found so far, a huge gas bubble came up the riser and enveloped the platform, the electrical was shut down but a emergency generator came on for some reason then "Boom".

EC isnt until August. Don;'t you think it may be ok by then???..

Who knows? I hope so! I'm ready to burn some gas not clean birds.

Depends on your definition of 'ok'.

There's still oil on the beaches of Prince William Sound 22 years after the fact. Even after all the money spent on cleanup, best estimates say they only got 20% of it. Actual number is probably closer to 12-15.

So what do we do now?????

We're still dependant on oil so what's the alternative....that's the real discussion....

Are we all destined to have electric motors in our bilge with the cabins lined with batteries???? And where do we get the energy to charge/re-charge the batteries....and all the toxic chemicals and rare metals and compounds that are used to produce these batteries???

There is no easy solution in my opinion....

In the meantime I'm going boating and enjoying my blower engines!

ditto on the blowers and the sound of v8's and 10's...can't imagine buying a boat with some sort of hybrid engine with goofy looking solar cells on the deck

There you go, there is not enough wind and solar let only batteries to supply everything.

I like the bio algae fuel they are working with, uses the CO2 from power plants to grow!

We could use the flux capacitor in a Delorean.... oh wait that was a movie

All I've seen out there are those orange barriers that do no good in any water over 1'-2'. However, this company has some other systems that might work in the Gulf;

http://mavideniz.com.tr/product/Disp...t_Systems.html

Here's a good article on the economy of the affected region.

Some of the highlights:

• Gulf tourism: 620,000 jobs and $9 billion in wages.

• Recreational fishing trips: 25 million in 2006, with 40% of the total U.S. marine recreational fishing catch from the Gulf.

• The Gulf's commercial seafood industry: $21 billion.

• Gulf commercial fishing: 14 percent of U.S. commercial fishery landings.

• Gulf shellfish: 56 percent of U.S. oyster landings, 35 percent of its blue claw crabs, 83 percent of U.S. shrimp landings.

• 4,000 oil and gas platforms in the Gulf, with 100,000 workers.

• 27% of U.S. crude oil production.

• Six of the nation's top 10 ports are on the Gulf Coast: South Louisiana; Houston, Beaumont, and Corpus Christi, Texas; Mobile, Alabama; and New Orleans. All together, they handled 740 million tons of cargo in 2009.

Also, as was pointed out in another article I read today, our national economy is barely moving into recovery mode. There are much wider implications for the negative effect this mess will have the nation as a whole.

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