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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
You mean besides the "junk plug"?
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Junk plug. Apparently Beavis and Butthead are running BP research.
I can't believe there isn't some cylindrical robot that can "crawl" in the pipe and then expand to the diameter of the pipe, thus plugging it off. Man has been plugging tubes with cylidrically shaped objects for millenia. It doesn't seem that difficult. I'm sure some nerds at MIT are whipping one up as we speak. Of course, the robotic pipe plug would have been nice to have say, three weeks ago. Yeah, yeah. Hindsight and all that.
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12 times faster!?!? Yeah, that sounds like a great, low risk idea. Let's move on to that one. And I thought the funnel/pipe was a bit kooky.
Wonder why you can't take some sort of heat source to the crystallized methane and melt it off - have the robot take, I don't know, some sort of flare or high heat light down there. It seems that it is a finite amount that must be removed and then the box thingy is back in business.