There is nothing more important than the oil spill right now- It is driving discussions, markets, politics, emotions and business.
But I think even more important than the response right now is the lessons learned from the disaster. While most people continue to focus on the new , may be the engineering and environmental society should dedicate a group to start evaluating the lessons and to come up with implementation plans at other hot spots ... ehem.. oil rigs.
What comes to my mind is that if a relief well takes so long to drill, should a relief well with all necessary equipment except a 5-7 day drill period to connect it to the main well be mandated to exist for every rig?
Secondly , if the rate of spread was much faster than the rate of skimming and dispersion, what new technologies need to be employed and how can these be activated faster and gather more oil in the future?
Just like we have come up with sprinklers to avoid fires, I am sure we are an ingenious tribe and by putting the best minds together we can come up with risk reducing and mitigating ideas that need to be implemented ASAP at other sites!
One of the major things that comes to mind is - why not set up something stronger than a watchdog- independent of the government- an agency that actually does safety research- an agency that will be to engineering what NASA is to aerospace?
again just some quick thoughts , I am sure some people are already thinking the same way or ahead!
let me know what you think guys!
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