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That harnesses and reuses energy to further power the car. it's much more than fuel efficiency. it's total efficiency. see your lexus dealer. anyway, we are going live to admiral thad allen giving an update on this day 67 of the gulf oil disaster. >> puts the device down and slowly close on the well bore to the point where they're ready to do the intercept drilling. this last part takes some time, because they only do several hundred feet at a time, withdraw the drill pipe, and put the sensor down. after a series of readings, they have a very precise idea how close they are to the well bore ...

And place this might longs, six inch diameter tube into the pipe to siphon up the oil to a tanker that is on the surface. in order to do that the tube has to be passed through a framework device that is on the ocean bottom. that is when bp officials say they begin to encounter problems. >> this tool sits in a metal frame so that the drill pipe lowered from the discover enterprise the drill ship, can connect to it. when they attempted it, the frame shifted and what they had to do they brought the tool back to the surface and reorient the frame so the next attempt will be more successful. >> the...

News. considering what is going on in the gulf of mexico right now, you might think this would be the worst possible time to ask the government's permission to start new offshore drilling. that sort of thinking would disqualify you from being an oil executive. a federal appeals court gave shell oil the all-clear yesterday to drill five wells at two locations about 75 miles off the coast of alaska. in waters with some of the fiercest storms in north america. in a place where moving sea ice could mean that there is no credible effective means of cleaning up any oil spill in the area. no effectiv...

The oil up to a tanker. this increasing done essentially roboticly 5,000 feet down. it's like playing a very high-tech video game with billions of dollars at stake. just a short time a bp official explained more precisely what wept wrong with the first attempt. >> this tool sits in a metal frame so that the drill pipe lowered from the drill ship can connect to it. when they attempted to connect to it the frame shifted so they were unable to make that connection. what they had to do is bring the frame and tool back to the surface and reorient it so the next attempt would be more successful. >> ...

Supposed to be sort of a fail safe device that if they do get something like that, they flip all the switches and it shuts everything down, even cuts through the drill pipe if necessary. but you found there were problems with the blowup preventer, what was going on with it? >> well, the blowup preventer, it's almost comical, unfortunately, we have this economic disaster happening. it should cut off this pipe, cut it and seal off the well. there's deadman switches. well, we found that the batteries hasn't worked. when three months, the batteries went dead, therefore, you lost power to it, the b...