Clearly this is the wrong way to go about it:
http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/546759/
The submission form is broken, as one might expect. And the manual review process is ridiculous. Can someone with experience in deploying fast HN/StackOverflow/Reddit-like voting forums do this?
Then I can submit my idea:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390225
And more importantly better ideas can be upvoted, criticized, and eventually presented to those who might be able to use them.
'Start with the idea, let the domain experts evaluate its feasibility.'
http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/wordpress/2010/05/should-bp-crowdsource-potential-solutions-for-the-gulf-oil-spill/
Anyway, just an idea...