Plan B to plug Gulf oil leak: the junk shot

Fuelling fears of an extended environmental disaster, BP''s giant containment box lay unused on the seabed, a four-storey chamber and the company's best short-term solution to containing the slick. After the setback on Saturday, engineers scrambled to find other solutions and are considering using debris, including tire shards and golf balls, to plug the damaged blowout preventer on the well.
Using a technique called a "junk shot," where debris is pumped into the preventer at high pressure, is one option. Another is attaching a smaller, "top-hat" preventer on top of the damaged one.
"They are actually going to take a bunch of debris -- some shredded up tires, golf balls
and things like that--and under very high pressure shoot it into the preventer itself and see if they can clog it up to stop the leak," U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, who is leading the U.S. government's response effort, told CBS's Face the Nation.


(Is it just me or does this sound FOOLISH?)
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