Well, the last few weeks have been busy. The quarter finished this week. My final was on Monday, the grading was finished on Tuesday and technical problems with submitting the grades remained until Wednesday.
In the meantime, the BP deep water horizon disaster keeps on getting worse and nobody knows when it’s going to get fixed.
I’m looking forward to a few days rest before I can go back to doing what I actually like to do: research. I’ve seen very little of that lately, with all the committees, meetings, exams, grading and whatnot. I’m also looking forward to start posting stuff here again.
Finally, the world cup starts tomorrow. I have to find a place to see some of the matches.
You can take a look to http://www.livesoccertv.com/world-cup-2010/channels/
we just got cable, precisely for this occasion, you guys are welcome to come by anytime…
In the meantime, the BP deep water horizon disaster keeps on getting worse and nobody knows when it’s going to get fixed.
Mechanical refrigeration collar around the BOP. NH3 or SO2 working fluid, benthic syntactic foam external thermal insulation. Freeze the oil stream from the outside in; entirely reversible. Crystallized paraffins have been clogging well bores since 1857 Pennsylvania.
Halliburton may have cemented the wellhead with pigeon snot. Top plugging the bore will give about 15,000 psi equilibrium pressure. The whole thing could blow like a champagne cork – as it did topside. THAT is why it will not be plugged.