leaking pipe by thursday. meantime, 210,000 gallons of crude continue to gush into the gulf of mexico every day. when and how the responsibilities stop that unrestrained continuous blast of petroleum remains to be seen. joining us now is civil and environmental engineering professor of rice university. thanks so much for your time tonight. i hope i got your name right. yes, you did. excellent. the smaller box, the top hat, what makes it different than the bigger box and more likely to work? the primary thing is they will be sending the box down at the end of a pipe, if you will, that outer pipe will be sending down warm sea water. that will keep the box warm and hopefully it will not plug up the way the bigger one did and the ice plug will be prevented from forming. hopefully it will work.
leaking pipe by thursday. meantime, 210,000 gallons of crude continue to gush into the gulf of mexico every day. when and how the responsible parties stop that unrestrained continuous blast of petroleum remains to be seen. joining us now is civil and environmental engineering professor nagarajia of rice university. thanks so much for your time tonight. i hope i got your name right. yes, you did. excellent. the smaller box, the top hat, what makes it different than the bigger box and more likely to work? the primary thing is they will be sending the box down at the end of a pipe, if you will, that outer pipe will be sending down warm seawater. that will keep the box warm and hopefully it will not plug up the way the bigger one did and the ice plug will be prevented from forming. hopefully it will work.