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Gulf Coast Oil Spill, Possible Solution?

Could the wellhead be sealed by creating a vortex-type of flow, as in a supersonic-type speed circular flow downward through the wellhead? If you generate a downward spiral vortex flow, would that send the oil back where it came from? And could laser beams, ion beams, and electron beams be used to seal the wellhead? Didn't the former Star Wars program research some of this technology?

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Whatever can cap the well is going to have to go into the well faster then what is coming out AT THE SAME TIME as it is coming out. And what is coming out is a mixture of oil and methane. Oil is a liquid and methane is a gas. What makes it worse is that they are being dispensed into water at a rate that no one has determined yet, and probably never will, because 2 different substances of different properties are escaping from the same wellhead into yet another substance, water, that neither one is compatible with. Add to that, the fact that the water pressure at the depth that the well head/ocean floor is on is so dense, that you're not going to be able to get a human down there to assess the situation first hand. So to answer your question, is there a possible solution? No. The well is going to have to run itself dry.    

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Jack erickson Answered:

not a chance

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