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Saturday, June 5, 2010

Stop Leak for BP

The BP oil spill has become an environmental disaster.  BP needs to step up their pace to stop the leak and try anything and everything.  Burning off the oil and other techniques weren't tried because they weren't "environmentally friendly."  Well, look at the mess we have now because BP and our President sat back and did nothing!  Here's one idea worth looking into:

Since the "top kill," "junk shot" and "top hat" techniques failed to end the environmental nightmare, Alia Sabur -- who started her engineering Ph.D. at age 14 -- is pushing for a more radical idea.

The Northport native, who started reading before she could walk and who at 18 broke a 300-year-old record to become the youngest-ever college professor, proposes surrounding a pipe with deflated automobile tires, inserting it into the leaking riser, and then inflating the wheels to form a seal.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/leak_solution_Zw3RdLcmYcdsA4UAz6WMwM#ixzz0q1VL1JL0



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