re: #259 Gus 802

Either that or build a 5000 foot coffer dam. That would be something if they could do that.

Could this concept work?

To whom it may concern at BP Oil,
I think I may have come up with an idea that will help contain the Gulf spill and can be manufactured relatively quickly. I am not an engineer, but I do have a Master of Industrial Design degree from The Rhode Island School of Design, where I received the Rachel Carson Environmental award for ecologically responsible design.

Please find the attached jpeg sketch of a “Permeable Cone Stocking” concept.

This approach would avoid the complicated chemistry involved in deep sea high-pressure capture efforts by making the tube between the ocean floor leak and the water surface PERMEABLE. As a result, this method allows some oil to escape, but more or less contains it within the cone.

The drawing shows the bottom of the cone nailed to the ocean floor, but upon further consideration, it could simply be attached to a rigid steel hoop and positioned less precisely over the leak - so long as the majority of the spewing was going into the cone.