NOte to CARB: Gulf Oil spill may be far larger than previously estimated. CARB, can you say

[JohnWxy]

"CATASTROPHE"?????



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/14/gulf-oil-spill-may-be-far_n_576127.html


Steven Wereley, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, analyzed videotape of the seafloor gusher using a technique called particle image velocimetry.

A computer program simply tracks particles and calculates how fast they are moving. Wereley put the BP video of the gusher into his computer. He made a few simple calculations and came up with an astonishing value for the rate of the oil spill: 70,000 barrels a day -- much higher than the official estimate of 5,000 barrels a day. <...>

"We're talking more than a factor-of-10 difference between what I calculate and the number that's being thrown around," he said.

[rocktivity]

1. MAY be worse? It IS worse, they've known it almost from day one

And they're breaking the bad news to us a little at a time.

:(
rocktivity

[madokie]

2. Something along this line is what I was thinking about in this post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8358694