Is it possible there is a REAL solution to the BP oil spill and.....?

I myself sent in an answer the second day it happened. They just give a uniform response letter to every suggestion.

I suggested to build a domed pile of dirt on land high enough to cover the severed pipe connection. Then to pour concrete over the domed dirt until it weighs in the neighborhood of 500 tons or more. On top of the pile before you add cement put in a pipe with a valve (remote controlled) to let air out of the dome as you lower it over top of the oil leak.

I said with enough mass in the dome and a valve to let air out of the dome as you lower it would seal the leak with pure heavy mass. Even if methane tried to lift the dome you make sure you calculate concrete thickness to be enough so that even a dome full of methane wouldn't be able to float it off.

And building this on the dock with no forms needed and just a dozer to pile some dirt up to make a form to spray concrete onto , would make it possible to construct and harden in three days.

Then a cargo ship with a big crane could lift it and also lower it to the leak. Seemed very feasible with no problems.

A week or so later they do about the same thing but use a steel shell dome...which floated away because of the methane hydrates...duhhh... Ships are made of steel and they float no problem. You need enough mass to overcome any possible amount of buoyancy