To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (33468 ) 5/2/2010 2:33:29 PM From: Frank A. Coluccio Read Replies (1) | Respond to Several tangentially related articles from the September 2009 issue of Subtel Forum Magazine:subtelforum.com subtelforum.com "If only the oil industry would invest as much capital in 'fail-over' capabilities as today's IT professionals almost always seem religiously inclined to do, and perhaps include the necessary "containment" capabilities to prevent the sort of calamity we're now witnessing in the Gulf of Mexico (as one poster noted earlier today in a PM)..." , but how much difference would it actually make, given the level of uncertainty that generally characterizes such environments amid plate tectonic activity, erupting volcanoes and unpredictable, if not constantly worsening, weather factors? Might containers need to be built to back up the primary containment capability? Etc., etc., etc. I suspect such measures, even if dealt with realistically, would be both uneconomical and incapable of surviving environmental impact analysis. Comments, corrections, questions welcome.]
