Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico 2010 Update April 29: State of Emergency

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I am a professional engineer.  The best way I know of to get most of the oil spill to burn is to spray liquid sodium metal over the water.  The sodium on contacting the water will burn to sodium hydroxide releasing hydrogen gas which will burn with the air to form water.  The burn will start the oil burning no mass how little of it there is.  A plane flying close to the water with a pipe that goes behind the tail that has a fine spray nozzle could spray the sodium metal out. The sodium hydroxide is a base and will react to become a salt in the seawater.  Sodium metal is made from electrolysis of sodium choride or common table salt.  I estimate 10 pounds of sodium per acre will do the job.  The sodium needs to be above 180 F to keep it liquid and allow for a fine spray. I worked years ago for GE in liquid sodium fast breeder reactors designing the heat transfer and sodium safety systems.

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I need to know if the oil will reach the Fl Panhandle by May 8 2010 for my vacation.

The real question is, can an oil spill of this proportion be one day completely cleaned?What is happening now in the Gulf of Mexico is obviously an ecological disaster, which thretends the wild life, including endangered turtles and pelicans, not to mention the see life. And if the spill makes its way to the Gulf Stream, than it's not a local but a global disaster ...It's still all for oil and for the petrodollars ... when will they finally get over it?

A simple cost effective method for prevention of methane hydrate formation during the dome operation.   A 100-ton concrete-and-steel vault will be mounted onto a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico an important step in a delicate and unprecedented attempt to stop most of the gushing crude fouling the sea.  The formation of methane hydrate has been seen to cause this operation to fail. They suggested of pumping methanol to act as antifreeze. Methanol will be used to prevent the formation of hydrate. Methanol is toxic and explosive. Methanol is a good anti freeze at normal pressure and temperature. It is not known how methanol is going to do at high pressure and low temperature. Another cost effective method to prevent the formation of crystalline methane hydrate is electrochemical. The inside of the dome is made from steel. This can act as an electrochemical electrode and can be used as a source of releasing gases. The easiest to release is chlorine or hydrogen depending on the applied potential. At high pressure and low temperature (conditions at the bottom of the gulf) the released gas may be in the supercritical conditions (Behave like liquid and gas). It is not known what will be the electrochemical overvoltage for gas release (how easy these gases can be released). However, this does not require special equipment for methanol release at high pressure and low temperature beside methanol is known to be very toxic and combustible. The equipments required for gas release are already available (used for cathodic protection) and very cost effective. The amount and duration of gas release can be controlled according to the requirement. The released gases will produce turbulence which may prevent the hydration and subsequent crystallisation of methane. The release of these gases may require a simple roughening of the interior surface of the steel. The surface of the steel may have to be sprayed with a catalyst that has a very low electrochemical overvoltage for releasing that particular gas. The surface may be sprayed with lead if for example oxygen gas is to be released. M. Reda CanadElectrochim Calgary Alberta T2E5K7 Canada

I find this situation to be a criminal indictment of the current political and corporate power structure for the following reasons.First,one of the major solutions to cleaning up this gigantic mess is not even in the discussion, that solution is a process and a product called Magnegas. The Magnegas process takes liquid hydrocarbons, such as crude oil, and turns them into a natural gas substitute fuel that not only burns cleaner than almost any fuel on the planet, but actually puts breathable oxygen back into the atmosphere. This process could be employed to help clean up the millions of gallons of crude oil that have been spilled. Second, if this process, (which has been commercially available for over a decade), had been put into wide spread operation then, we would be using far less of these polluting oil products that damage the environment through spills and the burning of these products in our engines etc.. Please check out www.usmagnegas.com and DEMAND immediate action.