Jimmy L.

I don't know either but maybe it could have something to do with the fact that electricity and light are closely related.

With a constant feed of liquid nitrogen could you freeze the water in the pool? Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedI don`t know if my idea is totally wrong but if it is I am with you, what would become solid at that depth. I am not a rocket scientist but that makes sense to me.

I would say run several small pipes with some sort of pump. I would also ask the explanation why liquid nitrogen can`t freeze anything. I`ve seen personally dipping a steel bar in liquid nitrogen then dropping it on the floor and it broke like glass. I also understand the theory about it freezing the surrounding pipe, but if you introduced liquid nitrogen, helium, etc. it wouldn`t necessarly cool the pipe to the point of becoming brittle. If you used the theory of freezing the water at the end of the pipe the brittleness would not be to much of an issue.

To me the fact that the nitrogen is liquid or not doesn`t matter, its the temperature. At the tempurature of liquid nitrogen it should be able to freeze oil, sea water, or about anything known to man.

I have an idea on how to stop the oil leak in the gulf. I will say it and would welcome a response on why it would work or not work. My idea is to cool the contents of the pipe down to the point that it slows down. If it does not freeze thats ok, at least it would slow it down and make the other processes that have been used thus far more viable. My theory is to either pump or sink a tank of liquid nitrogen down to the bottom. If from the surface if you pumped liquid nitrogen through one main tube it might take more of a pump than if you used several small tubes to help overcome the pressure of the 5000 ft. depth. My idea on one side would be to introduce liquid nitrogen up stream in the pipe. Let it flow for a while and hopefully it would freeze the contents of the pipe, if not, since the temp. of the water at that depth is already 42 degrees, you possibly could freeze the water at the end of the pipe. I realize there is quite of bit of pressure at the end of the pipe, but maybe you could shroud a relatively large area at the end and introduce the liquid nitrogen to create a huge ice plug. I also did a small experiment today. It was vegetable oil not crude, however it it got solid enough that i think it would not flow through a pipe. Thanks! Just an idea!