On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Doug Pensinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If anything good is to come out of this disaster, its that we'll be > taking a closer look at offshore drilling, and that nobody will even > be suggesting that we rape the California coast for a few buckets of > oil. I've seen people seriously speculating that anti-drilling people, perhaps directed by the White House, sabotaged the platform, to cause the spill, so that drilling would slow down or stop. There is no end to the conspiracy. On a more rational note, DB commented that every well should have a deadman switch, so to speak - a device that shuts off the flow if it doesn't continuously receive a signal. Maybe I'm naive, but it seems to me that something like that would be in place if it were practical. Anybody know? Why not an automatic shut-off valve? Is it perhaps that some oil is under so much pressure that once it starts flowing, there's no stopping it as a practical matter? Nick
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