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only if the client tries to change the information in the legend or callouts. Because it is all linked information any changes to the plans done on a non-LandFX machine will break the links, but if you are just sharing location of plant the non-LandFX machine just see the blocks like any other drawing.

it also helps to have a city built before the automobile… Venice was designed to be moved through by foot and by boat are there even any cars in Venice? I don’t really remember seeing any cars at all… so is that really a good city to use as the baseline? maybe Amsterdam or London would be a better choice to study (old cities that now have…[Read more]

perhaps they were forced to drill in a mile deep water… were you on the board of directors that decided where to place the platform? Big government can be just as stupid. We need to find responsible ways to harvest energy. Oil is and always will be apart of this formula. Coal is “dirty”, the sun does not always shine, the winds do not always…[Read more]

Perhaps, but remember that they have opted to drill a mile under the ocean surface using technology that is barely up to the task. I can’t guess whether there is a deep conspiracy or not, but to go all the way down that speculative road ignores that people, even (especially !) big corporations are often just stupid.

So maybe we have stupid people…[Read more]

So for the article to say that walkability is a one variable formula can be pretty misleading. Because the actually study’s results say “Walking is most strongly related to measures of land use diversity, intersection density, and the number of destinations within walking distance.” Roland pretty much hits the nail on this issue. I don’t think…[Read more]

I think you just hit the nail on the head right there. It’s a matter of where do X and Y cross.

The Valdez spill (257,000 barrels) cost Exxon approx. $8.5 billion in clean-up and legal fees. That’s in 1989 dollars.

The BP mess is currently 4 times that (approx. 912,000 barrels). At an inflation rate of 76% since 1989 that would cost: 8.5Bn x .75…[Read more]

i love james carville! he always calls it like he sees it.

I agree.

It seems like all the solutions related to permanently disbling the well have been dismissed by speculative science (or actual science if that makes sense). I also agree with the comment about revocation of permits.

All the solutions presented by BP thus far rely on being able to capture oil for future use without destroying the well shaft and mechanisms already in place. Could this because they figured they’ve already committed to (and and are permitted to) pumping future oil from it? Why haven’t solutions that would disable the well and allow it to be…[Read more]

Prof Erschagi’s replies seem to be just as speculative and as or less scientific as the proposals. I understand the need for brevity.

Why not use a combination of proposed solutions?–freeze the well with methane ice as one suggested, then install transport device (clamped pipe, whatever) while the flow is down. I’m sure no one thought of this,…[Read more]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10268979.stm

Link to 18 ideas to plug pipe from BBC readers, plus reaction to each idea from a scientist.
The hydrates were methane, that is why the froze at that depth – see last idea in article….

Right, but at what point does it make sense for a company to sacrifice production in lieu of pending damage costs to write off losses?

I know this is conspiracy theory-ish as John Turk put it this morning on am760, but when he said it I burst out loud, ‘yes!.’

Given, it makes far more sense for BP to be collecting oil, making a straight profit…[Read more]

Jonathon – no, and yes, and I agree.
Why is ‘environmentalism’ even called an ‘ism’ as though it is something you can choose not to be part of?

They seem to be genuinely working on stopping the leak. The measures they have taken are expensive and i don’t think they like losing 200,000 barrels a day. That’s a lot of money. I don’t think we can comprehend what it will take to clean-up. That’s a whole other issue.

In hind site, I think it was a mistake to dump 1,000,000 gallons of dispersal…[Read more]

Hey,

I’m just typing out loud.

Certainly thy didnt want the explosion and leak to happen in the first place, but could there be some financial incentive for them to postpone containment other than bureaucracy and incompetence? I’m under the presumption that private industry tends to be very efficient when it comes to time or money–It doesnt…[Read more]

Yes, Nick, I think you’re on to something. There is a nefarious reason for not sealing the leak. It’s an evil plot to create a dead-zone in the Gulf. Kill off all life in the gulf with an oil spill. Then the hippie environmentalists won’t have any reason to protest additional off-shore rigs throughout the region. There is nothing left to protect!…[Read more]