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Oil Capture with Bubble Curtain and Oil Fish

The oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico may never be completely sealed off - this oil capture idea is based on whale hunting behaviour using bubble curtains.

Imagine a fleet of tugboats dropping hundreds of 10,000 psig air bottles overboard in a large circle around the oil leak site.

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David Ambrose Bell Moffat
Pickering, Canada
Votes: 4
Views: 4407
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 26, 2010

Oil change system

This is an idea for a more convenient and perhaps even green system to change oil in automobiles. The standard method is to climb under the vehicle and loosen the drain plug from the oil pan and drain fluid, then replace the plug. Also the oil filter must be removed.

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Shawn Galloway
Black River, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 3829
Consumer Products
May 26, 2010

Oil Filter Funnel Drain

In a typical oil changing operation, the do-itself-mechanic will use a bucket to drain the dirty oil from their car and replace the oil filter. The oil is transferred from the bucket to another container such as a spent milk jug and stored until it can be recycled or properly disposed of.

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Robert Marcinik
Wallkill, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 9415
Consumer Products
Jun 25, 2010

Oil Spill Disaster, what if it happens again?

Everybody is a witness to what is going on in the gulf of Mexico, millions of gallons of fuel are leaking from a broken pipe from a BP offshore drilling platform. It is only getting bigger and is now worse than anyone thought. The oil spill has now surpassed BP's "worst case scenario,

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Mademba Cisse
Oxon Hill, United States
Votes: 3
Views: 4154
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 30, 2010

Oil spill pollution efficient cleaning and collection

The system is based in grained particiles made out of expanded polystyrene, polyethylene mixed with magnetized iron particles in powder size This particles have the property that withholds oil in their fibers and stick together when coming close. In this way we can spray them from the air in a wide area after studying water currents.

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Anastasios Zervos
Ilioupolis, Greece
Votes: 1
Views: 5152
Safety and Security
Jun 11, 2010

Oil spill/recovery

A super-sized cream separator is to be used to gather the oil slick using a properly equipped ship to take the separated oil into its hold and return to the sea. Such a separator needs to be sized to collect thousands of gallons of water/oil-slick and centrifuge it.

Several sizes of such ships can be used,

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Ed Watson
San Diego, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 4469
Machinery & Equipment
May 25, 2010

Oil Tank Remote Level Sensor Display

Has the sound of the oil truck backing into your driveway ever scared you? How about waking to find no heat in the house because you ran out of oil. How many people reading this can say how much oil they have, without going down to the basement, garage or outside? Neither can I.

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Jason Kascenska
Poughkeepsie, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 5227
Consumer Products
Jun 30, 2010

Oil Well Cap

After Suddam Hussein blew up the oil wells in Kuwait during the Gulf War, the Department of Energy, British Petroleum and the Red Adair company were given three inventions for putting out the oil well fires faster in Kuwait. Red Adair used the water ring invention to extinguish some of the oil well fires in Kuwait.

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James Burrell
Union, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 4647
Sustainable Technologies
Jun 30, 2010

Olympus - Future Ready VTOL Business Aircraft

The Olympus is a four passenger business aircraft capable of performing point-to-point (PtP) vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) air transportation whilst outperforming state-off-the-art helicopters on speed, range and noise emissions. The aircraft features a balanced combination of conventional aerospace techniques with several unique innovations,

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Arnold De Jager
Delft, Netherlands
Votes: 0
Views: 10178
Transportation
Jun 30, 2010

Omni directional holonomic spherical robot

This idea basically solve the transportation problem in todays era and traffic jam problems and main benifit of this wheel concept is to move in each and every direction on surface.in today's era simple conventional wheels are used which do not have 3 DOF.this concept can be applied in all vehicle.

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Nihal Sharma
Udaipur, India
Votes: 20
Views: 9821
Transportation
Mar 6, 2010

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