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The "Top Hat" Design

Posted on 5/10/10 at 2:28 pm
Posted by TigerFred
Feeding hamsters
Member since Aug 2003
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Posted on 5/10/10 at 2:28 pm
In the current news conference a number of times the "Top Hat" design has been discussed.

Does anyone know anything about it? Apparently it will be shipping to location this week.
Posted by COTiger
Colorado
Member since Dec 2007
16844 posts
Posted on 5/10/10 at 2:36 pm to
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The new “top hat” box is just five feet tall and four feet wide and should be more effective than the four-story, 100-ton dome previously used because it does not allow as much water in, BP officials said in a technical briefing today in Houston.


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Posted by Bucky Goldstein
Metairie,La.
Member since Oct 2005
1985 posts
Posted on 5/10/10 at 2:40 pm to
Why the frick didnt they try this first!!
This post was edited on 5/10/10 at 2:41 pm
Posted by LSU0358
Member since Jan 2005
8083 posts
Posted on 5/10/10 at 3:41 pm to
Will this new design just move the methane hydrate problem into the pipe up to the surface?
Posted by the LSUSaint
Member since Nov 2009
15444 posts
Posted on 5/10/10 at 3:56 pm to
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Why the frick didnt they try this first!!


Wasn't built yet, I guess. ANd I'm sure they thought it would be too hard to control over the folw, thinking the larger/HEAVIER one would be more stable. I t makes sense, but the freezing took over.


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