Oil Spill Photo Gallery: Obama Comes to Louisiana
05/29/2010
Gretna, LA
11:07pm
President Obama came to Louisiana today to speak about the oil spill.

The circles represent the temporary flight restrictions (TFR) for President Obama's visit to the Gulf. Photo by Kim Hubbard/Audubon Magazine

The President arrives in Grand Isle, LA. Photo by Kim Hubbard/Audubon Magazine

Jonathan Henderson of Gulf Restoration Network. Photo by Kim Hubbard/Audubon Magazine

A beach that should've been packed with tourists for Memorial Day weekend was packed with media instead. Photo by Kim Hubbard/Audubon Magazine

Folk singers performed oil spill songs near the Presidential press conference. Photo by Kim Hubbard/Audubon Magazine

Customers in the Subway sandwich shop were about a mile away from where President Obama was speaking in Grand Isle, LA. Photo by Kim Hubbard/Audubon Magazine


A solution to recover the oily sea water with high performance!
Hi,
Please look at: http://community.livejournal.com/savegulftech/
We would like to implement a technology and evaluate the hardware (to be implemented as necessary), to focus on reduction of the damage to the lands and sea water by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico due to
DeepWaterHorizon accident in the Gulf. We have an idea, a theory and a technical solution, which could be a key one to scale down the negative impact of the disaster consequences from oily sea water in the Gulf of the Mexico.
Solution is developed by Russian scientific organization and the company, under the management of researchers, who invented the solution. This is not an offer from the government of Russia. Details of funding required, could be arranged and negotiated, as grant-basis, cooperational,
partnership or other activities, with proper assignments.
Successful start and completion of that project TODAY, NOW may create a scaleable tool (vessel-based or boat-based) for real-time fights with events of such nature in the future. For current accident, in 3-4 months, ecology could be damaged much more, we hope you understand this.
ANYONE interested to lock down the disaster in the Gulf and its
consequences - the university, an ecology fund, the oil company, state government or private investors, and who may help us to help you to do it faster and better - please contact me at any time!
Please review our offer!
Brief description:
Our solution is based on 3 types of hardware (A, B and C) and is focused to recover the huge volumes of oily sea water from oil, spilled into the sea,
having relatively low cost, high performance and high efficiency. This is a new combination of proven technologies, we research and delelop. Underwater cloud of oil (if exist any over there), could be removed from the sea water, from the depth of up to 1 km - is TBD!.
We are NOT offering the method or technology on how to STOP the chink leaking.
Tech. details are:
Oily water is being processed by very powerful water recovery station (hardware A), as output - there are clear water, which goes back to the sea or ocean and recovered oil.
Recovered oil burns at the vessel board within special torch (hardware B) without any preparation of recovered oil for burning, as output there are a lot of heat, some soot and some hydrocarbon.
Soot and hydrocarbon are removed out of the torch and this is not a bottleneck for high-throughput neither a problem for removal and
utilisation.
Heat is used to power up the hardware B (new type of external combustion turbine, called RLDVPT). RLDVPT produces local electric power up to 2MW (two megawatts).
Electric power is applied to the hardware C - powerful water recovery station with high volume of sea water processing, electric power driven.
So, we have a set of hardware connected in circilar way and this becomes autonomous water recovery solution, until oily sea water exist in the area of the sea to be recovered.
Diesel fuel and vessel engine work is not required, during the clean-up procedure, electric drive operates the vehicle under water flow and wind, so a vessel could clear the area of the sea or ocean by 24h a day without return to the port for refuel with high maneurability.
Performance criteria
For example: contaminants treated or measured, quantifiable reduction in contaminant concentration, etc.
1) quality / compliance of sea water to initial state, after recovery process is applied
2) cost of 1m3 of sea water recovered from oil waste
3) ability to operate 24h versus scheduled timeline
4) savings in time and economy in cost of diesel fuel to be spend for vessels executing clean-up process
5) depth of successful recovery
6) total cost of the project and it's length / staging
7) speed of recovery per 1 hour / 1 day / 1 month
8) square of affected area being successfully recovered
9) ability to attach the hardware solution on various vessel types and provide unification of solution to future use
10) advance of science
11) advance of technology
12) other advantages and parameters to be measured by 3rd party government or business authorities - method of measurement is TBD!
Cost (include area or volume treated for that amount):
This is staged expense (including preparation phase, production phase, deployment phase and operational phase). Costs would also be fixed and variable.
As, the volume of sea water to be processed (recovered) and the level of water pollution is officially unknown, we can estimate the cost of hardware and the cost of work
to mount the hardware on vessels, plus estimate the cost of rent for all vessels provided to participate, per N days of their work.
Cost of hardware offered is fixed. If you are serious to get it - please do a conference call with us for evaluation.
Throughput
In the process of oily sea water recovery, we plan to process up to 200m3 of it (appx. 50.000 gallons) per 1 hour of water recovery station
operation,
mounted on any suitable vessel to carry the complex of required hardware in 20ft and in 40ft containers. To be correct, many factors influence the throughput
- weather conditions, wind force, level of oil in the water, square of disaster, power of water recovery station, other issues.
We know, that such a disaster had never been before, so our goal is to balance the amount of oily water spilled into the sea daily with the capacity
of few dozens or more vessels, equipped with our hardware and dedicated to the cleaning process.
If we can recover the same amount of water as it is being spilled daily, it is OK to our current understanding of the situation.
We hope to try to increase the volume of processing of oiled water up to 400m3 per 1 hour.
Has this been field-tested? Yes No
If yes, brief description of testing:
Certain elements and separately - YES. Particular combination of elements - NO. There is outstanding science in the background,
proven by years of research and development, so verification is required not for method of operation of the whole system,
but for validness of estimates of power consumption relative to given speed of recovery, depth, best work temperature and actual recovered water output.
Scalability of the solution is another point of discussion, which has extensive way of resolution (by using extra vessels)
or by installing more powerful hardware (with higher volume processing per 1 hour).
1) We are sure in each element of the solution to work.
2) We are sure this solution (as complete solution) will work EXCELLENT. 3) We are sure, this solution will be helpful, highly efficient, with high performance and cost effective.
4) We are also sure, this new technology has not been before attempted in full, as no such a disaster happened before.
Thank you for reviewing our proposal!
Thank you again,
Maxim Bocharov
Russia, Moscow
+7 985 920-01-67
diesel
The diesel engine are quite high performing as it is having highest compression ratio than any other kind of an engine.