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Nuking the oil spill? Seriously?

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Nuking the oil spill: nuclear option being considered?
By MERLIN FLOWER
OIL-PRICE.NET, 2010/05/24

Reading this gave me De ja vue so I went looking through my blog posts and found this:

Hydraulic Fracturing and Barnett Shale Earthquakes: Some Fracking History

40 years ago, in an attempt to get gas out of shale in Colorado, they drilled to 8,426 feet and detonated an atomic bomb that produced a 43-kiloton blast (about three Hiroshima bombs). That did frack some gas up:

“It released 455 million cubic feet of natural gas, which was too radioactive to be used.”

How should I tag this post? Unbelievably stupid stuff?

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Comments

  1. Tim Ruggiero says

    Sounds like Big Gas ran into the Air Force and several smarties got together. Big Gas was going to get millions of cubic feet of gas, and the Air Force could test another nuke. As if we don;t already knows what happens. Maybe the tag should be 'Further Study Required'. No, that won't work, that covers just about everything they do, including those jackasses at the TCEQ and TRRC.

    'Beyond Stupid' is the tag I would use. If you just used 'stupid' we'd never find it in the unending Forest of Stupidity. Or maybe 'Wylie Coyote – Pure Genius'. No, that won't work, either. I give up.

    I'm no scientist, but I would have thought setting off a nuke underground like that would completely burn the gas. Apparently it did not, but rendered the gas useless- as well as the surrounding area only for the next 10,000 years.

  3. Anonymous says

    Set off a big nuke in the Gulf near this leaking well, will do untold damage to other nearby wells and we then have more problems with leaks on our hands.

  4. Brown Bess says

    Given their track record of nuclear materials management, there's certainly no better role model to take your atomic cues from than Russia!

    Another great product from white male engineers with too much time on their hands.

  5. Anonymous says

    There are other ways to explode the well-collapsing it in on itself, but then the well couldn't be used! That's why they haven't done this already, I read…