{"id":580815,"date":"2010-05-26T17:35:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T21:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-26-how-would-you-stop-the-gulf-oil-spill\/"},"modified":"2010-05-26T17:35:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T21:35:09","slug":"how-would-you-stop-the-gulf-oil-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/580815","title":{"rendered":"How would you stop the Gulf oil leak?"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Grist.<\/p>\n

They’ve tried underwater robots<\/a>, a containment dome<\/a>, a riser
\ntube<\/a> (which has been siphoning up at least a bit of the gushing flow), and relief
\nwells<\/a> (still being drilling, a process that will take months).  They’re
\nnow attempting a top kill<\/a>.  They might
\nstill try a junk shot<\/a> and top hat<\/a>, and—what the hell—even nukes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But, at least so far, total fail<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So what would you, dear readers, propose?  Share your best—or at least most entertaining—ideas in the comment section below.<\/p>\n

Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obama’s finally connecting the Gulf spill and clean energy. Champagne time?<\/a><\/p>\n

The federal government needs to take command of the disaster response<\/a><\/p>\n

Will Obama admin allow Shell Oil to do to Arctic waters what BP did to the Gulf?<\/a><\/p>\n

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by Grist. They’ve tried underwater robots, a containment dome, a riser tube (which has been siphoning up at least a bit of the gushing flow), and relief wells (still being drilling, a process that will take months).  They’re now attempting a top kill.  They might still try a junk shot and top hat, and—what the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}