Charlie Rose

NeilMacCallister  06/15/2010 03:33 AM Report

newnam,

So you like Wildfire's pincer-like "shear-crusher" robots?

Okay, at least I'm glad someone is talking about stopping this flow.

I personally belief that the potential damage is so great, that we must not take the demolishing of that oil-pipe with an explosive ordinance off the table of our considerations.

After all, we're not trying to save that oil-well, ..are we???

(..ARE WE?????)

newnam  06/03/2010 01:52 PM Report

Charlie,

The shut off valve didn't work. Top Kill didn't work. Steve Werely made an excellent educated guess as to the amount of oil spewing out of the sea floor in the Gulf. I think it's time for a more simple idea to be instituted.

There is a lot of stuff online about a company called Wild Fire Technologies, Inc. (www.wildfiretechno.com). They've invented a technology that doesn't go above and beyond a high school education. It's so simple, it's ridiculous. I would work on pushing this idea out.

This technology would essentially cut off the flow of oil in the gulf...and that's it. It's cut off and then engineers with their brainy selves can come up with more crazy ideas to regain control of the oil flow.

I've seen the videos all over the internet. They're on numerous blogs and there's a reporter out of Canada that's written about them.

Check them out, Charlie. I think you should pass this info along to John Hofmeister and Steve Werely, too.

-Jared

NeilMacCallister  05/18/2010 10:17 PM Report

JOHN HOFMEISTER: What we haven’t had is a comprehensive energy plan for this nation. We’re simply not managing our future. Because we’ve waited so long, we’re headed for an energy abyss. We’re simply not producing enough energy for the future of this country.

What’s missing is the supply side of energy. We need an approach that takes technology for efficiency, energy for more supply, the management of our wastes, and the development of our infrastructure into account all at the same time.

CHARLIE ROSE: I have to leave it there.

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Dear Mr. Rose,

We "left it there" back in the early '80's, did we not?

That was when I last saw much notice given to nuclear fusion. We were talking about it, and especially the Japanese, ..something about a "Tokamak Reactor"?

Fusion was heralded as "the design energy of the universe".

But Japan had a financial collapse, ..and Americans decided to concentrate on SUV's with computers instead.

Can we pull water from the ocean, use it for fusion, desalinate the effluent for use on farms, ..and offer the world public the health insurance that it REALLY needs? ..a safe energy supply?

***

Until all that is up and running, can we just do what the Copenhagen Crowne Plaza Hotel is now doing, and simply pay people to get on an exercise bicycle that has a generator attached, and pedal their way to health, prosperity, and the electrical energy used by their building?

Personally, ..I could use the work!

Thanks.

Rxmiller  05/17/2010 11:00 PM Report

This was with out a doubt the worst Charlie Rose "interview" ever. The guest just spewed unfounded political agenda's with out so much as a question. Charlie, you didn't question any of these fantastic notions. Those of us who truly want ecology responsible and realistic energy tranformation are completly insulted by these self-serving guest that are completely ignorant about science, economics, and ecology.

Charlie, I am a big fan, but next time please just write a check to them for their advertisement time and spare your loyal viewers the insults. Your reputation and your viewers expect better than this.

robdverity  05/17/2010 05:47 PM Report

It takes environmentally callous or obtuse individuals to take on such depths without having fail-safe operations tried and tested - and tested again. BP, Halliburton (based on past opportunistics rep) should both belly up making things right for this wrong. The REAL costs will exceed all three of ne'er do wells net worth, which should be applied 100% to the cleanup and professsions lost and taxes foregone etc, etc.

Egregious greed, corner cutting, regulation bypassing all contributing to the corrosive decay in our system. The venal whores of Congress will sell anything away from Glass-Stegall to whale, dolphin, shrimp, oyster, birds, and wild-life destruction for their re-election campaign coffers.

We sorely need a one term (8 yr staggered?) limit with lobbyists much more restricted.

VENALITY > STATESMANSHIP!!

REMant  05/17/2010 01:08 PM Report

Obviously, the shut-off valve didn't work and might never have worked. Who, exactly, is at fault will undoubtedly entertain the courts for some time to come. It appears there are a lot of candidates. It does seem they were a little cavalier considering this was the first such well. The first remedy tried was also my first thought, but it is apparently too cold down there. Many fear the oil is settling, and in inaccessible places, tho it is of a kind that micro-organisms may clean up by themselves, and whether its intended use would prove much better is at least arguable. What I am wondering is what will happen when this year's hurricane season arrives. The point about the govt's complicity, due as usual to an inability to make decisions, particularly long-term ones, is well taken. But the Fed was certainly NOT created to get monetary policy out of politics, or hardly to regulate it, but to re-establish a central bank to clean up Wall St's spills, ironically because it was argued that creating more money as required was all that would be needed, when in fact, it was too much money in that era that caused the problems, a point that still doesn't seem to have sunk in. However, if we are going to be in this off-shore business in a bigger way, we are going to have to supervise it a little better.