Oil Rain pouring down on Louisiana

[bfdd]

Okay, I understand the oil and water don't mix part. I don't understand exactly what you believe is happening to that portion of the oil that is evaporating, though.

http://www.mms.gov/tarprojects/120/120BG.PDF

Couldn't a hard rain bring down some oil as it falls to earth the same way it does with other polutants?

Sure that's true it could, but oil is lighter than water so it would raise higher up than a dense rain cloud wouldn't it?

 

[NoWhereM]

Sure that's true it could, but oil is lighter than water so it would raise higher up than a dense rain cloud wouldn't it?

I have no idea, but what goes up must come down.

 

[UberNeuman]

I have no idea, but what goes up must come down.

That's what she said....

 

[sandorski]

Oil on a Treadmill will not Take Off.

 

[nonlnear]

Oil on a Treadmill will not Take Off.

As opposed to a plane on a treadmill, which obviously will.

 

[OutHouse]

http://jalopnik.com/5570961/its-raining-oil-in-louisiana

interesting.

The oil included in the Deepwater Horizon disaster is most certainly crude, and was at one point a heavy crude, which reduces the overall loss to evaporation, however it's been mixed up by the effects of the ocean and become an emulsification, which according to the study, enhances the likelihood of evaporation:

 

[CaptnKirk]

I live in River Ridge - this is absolute bullshit.

Runoff from a parking lot where cars leak oil and the rainbow diffraction of the oil residue floating on a drain grate is bogus.

Go out on your driveway where your car has dripped oil drops while it was parked there, and run a hose for a bit,
you will have the same thing - the oil floats as a film and diffracts light into a rainbow, just like a soap bubble does.

Now there is one thing going on here that is obvious when you look in from the distance, and that is the pollution
in the air from the burning off of the boomed oil into burn puddles - the sky has a yellowish brown tinge
in the air, just like it used to look like in Los Angeles in the 60's ans 70's. Air pollution.
The smoke plumes drift into the air and the wind currents from the Gulf carry it over the land.
Yes, it rains down on the ground and is carried to the drains, but it is hydrocarbon oxides,
like the acid rain that Saint Louis used to experience when coal was burned there, but not nearly as concentrated.

the 'Oil' doesn't rain down, the water disolves the CO2 or SO2 and creates some acidic compound like
carbonic or sulpherous acid to kill plants or disolve limestone - just like it always does.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonic_acid

http://www.ucc.ie/academic/chem/dolchem/html/comp/h2so3.html

 

[piasabird]

Oil does not evaporate. It may turn to sludge or it may burn and give off fumes. However, who knows what it does after it is mixed with the other chemicals that the poured into the ocean to break it up. I think that will just complicate things more. It would have been better if it was not broken up. I think that just makes an even worse mess that is harder to clean up.

If you live next to a refinery, you probably know that carbon formed from oil or other things burning, may rain down on your car and eat the paint off of it. If they are burning stuff on the rigs out in the gulf the carbon or whatever is created during the burning process may be settling with the rain. Basically it is a pollutant in the air and the rain is cleaning the air. It might be capable of eating the paint off of cars and damaging buildings and roofs.

Sometimes when an unintentional realease occurs at a refinery they will allow car owners to get a free car wash.

 

[Moonbeam]

If you are a right winged nut case, as so many here are, and if you think day and night about the dangers of liberals destroying your backward culture, you will see liberals in rain and every other thing as well. It's part of what happens to the insane.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

If it can rain men, it can rain oil

It's raining oily men? The gay posters here will be very excited