Online suggestion platform: how to stop the oil spill

SpecialtyFabricsReview.com | June 10, 2010

An Oregon technology company has launched a website to capture suggestions from the world’s best and brightest on innovative solutions for stopping BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has reportedly received 10,000 phone calls and 60,000 e-mails offering solutions; the website is intended as a vehicle to organize these ideas, through the use of “crowdsourcing,” to encourage new thinking and promote collaboration among interested people around the world. “We believe the answer to capping the oil spill may emerge through the collaborative efforts of disparate individuals worldwide, from everyday tinkerers to professional scientists in the farthest corners of the world,” said Dan Afrasiabi, president of Portland’s ARM Insight. Visitors to the site can post their ideas, and all site visitors can vote for their favorite ideas.

SOURCE: ARM Insight

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  Larru Conklin

  Jun 17, 2010
  8:45 pm CDT

   

  Why do they not take a cage made out of rod with a heavy inner tube inside the cage?

  The cage needs to be constructed so that when the inner tube is inflated the cage separates.

  Use an inner tube like the ones used in Hugh dump trucks.

  When the inner tube is inflated with enough air pressure it should seal the pipe off. Once that is done they could weld a permanent cap on the pipe.