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Jeff(?), I concur with your comment about a demonstration of a lack of integrity by the person who chose to compile and publish the personal details of 100 million Face Book members. While the information was then currently in the public domain, his spiteful actions do suggest to me someone and a company that I will not include on our list of potential suppliers of security services over which I, as an IT executive, have substantial control for my Fortune 20 corporate employer
HURRAY FOR JS IN SAN DIEGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HURRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WELL , VERY WELL WRITTEN!! THE ONLY THING I HOPE IS THAT THE NEXT ONE"INCLUDES" OBAMA...HE IS MORE THAN DISSAPPOINTING IN HIS ROLE!!HE HAS DONE NOTHING TO STOP THIS INTERNAL DISASSTER..NOTHING. KEEP THE ARTICLES COMING..THANKS
Jeff,
I just read your comments about the MSNBC article about the A Whale. Sounds like you have some experience in the field, so i'd like to get your thoughts on an idea some friends of my have been discussing that may be able to help with the cleanup efforts. By the way, I'm a mechanical engineer and I went to school at Florida State University. While there, I logged hundreds of hours of scuba dives in the Gulf, so I uncerstand the conditions in the Gulf a little better than the average person.
Anyhow, the idea is rudimentary and simple - which is exactly why it might have a shot. In the machine shop industry, it is common to use a very simple conveyor belt mounted veritcally in the coolant tank to skim the oil from the surface. The oil is scraped from the conveyor with a rubber scraper and captured in a barrel. I know this is already being done in the Gulf and I know there are far more effective methods of skimming but, here's what we'd like to try that's different...
BP has already contracted with hundreds of small fishing vessels to deploy boom along the coastlines. Our idea is to build thousands of these simple conveyor skimmers out of cheap and available common off the shelf components and fit one on every available vessel in the Gulf. Based on an extrapolation of the capacity of the skimmers used on CNC machines, we estimate that each vessel would have the ability to skim up to about 1 barrel per hour... so each one couldn't make much impact alone, but combined they could make a real dent in the cleanup effort. Most importantly, we could build them cheap and deploy them fast (and we're not trying to make a profit - we just want to see this situation improved asap).
Anyhow, the part I don't know how to do is to get BP or the USCG, or even the Gulf fishing industry to listen. We submitted the concept to BP's website and they responded that it was an idea already under consideration. So, my question for you is - To your knowledge, is there any good reason why this method would not work or should not be implemented? I'd love to hear your thoughts.Thanks,
Tom
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