However, this new cap is completely experimental. It has never been in use before. The well is known to be very unstable with high pressures and high methane content.
There is a great deal riding on this new cap and the community I am a member is expecting this to work with so much damage occurring to the environment.
There is no way any of us are wishing 'bad luck' or 'poor design' on this new cap. We are expecting it to work.
This is a completely experiemental cap and is isolated from any other issue regarding this rupture INCLUDING the current moritorium to protect the National Security of the USA by protecting our economy and fisheries.
Not until this cap has significantly proven it works beyond any doubt for a reasonable length of time and well past the completion of the relief wells, can anyone say it is a way of stopping such an explosion from becoming a disaster.
Time will tell.
This new cap and the moritorium are two completely different issues. One has nothing to do with the other, EXCEPT, a 'rush to judgement' that the cap is a miracle.
