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New Horizon Emergency Initiative

Near & Long-Term Four Pronged Emergency Relief of the Current Environmental Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico

May 20, 2010

Proposal

Prepared by:

New Horizon Initiative It is time to change the current Deepwater paradigm into a ‘New’ Horizon

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Table of Contents:

Executive Summary…………..

Target………………………….

Problems………………………

Solutions………………………

Approach……………………...

Status………………………….

Introduction…………………...

Proposal……………………….

Containment…………………..

Cleanup……………………….

Chemical Dispersal…………....

Advanced Technologies………

Prevention…………………….

Policy………………………….

Program Management………...

Financial………………………

Call to Action…………………

Conclusion…………..………..

Key Groups & Contacts………

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Contact: Morgan Boardman 202 290 3638 New Horizons initiative

Edward McCullough 951 284 9858 McCullough Innovations & Consulting

Paul Murad 703 759 2028 The Morningstar Group

Tom Poulin 951 312 9937 Aerie Engineering


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New Horizon Emergency Initiative It is time to change the current Deepwater paradigm into a ‘New’ Horizon

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The wolf is beating down the door of the Mississippi delta wetlands. Oil has now penetrated

inland and fouled some of the breeding islands for pelicans. At this point, the oil spill rate is

small compared to the oil already on the surface, adding about 2% more oil every day. As such,

the primary focus should include more of an effort to prevent additional fouling of the wetlands

and mitigating the damage that has already occurred.

This initiative offers a four-prong program involving capping the well, containing the existing

spilled oil, cleaning-up the environment and creating a prevention program to minimize such

future occurrences. This is a significant problem and we bring expertise to bear on this problem

to provide a list of traditional as well as non-traditional solutions to resolve this problem, Costs

for these separate activities are provided for your review. Moreover, our management team

spans several small corporations as well as two small-scale aerospace organizations, SARA and

Orbitec, and one major aerospace corporation, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, that have agreed to

subcontract to the initiative to help resolve this crisis. We are currently looking for a potential

prime to manage the financials, contracts, logistics and other functions that you would normally

expect from a prime.

TARGET: Our objective is to cap, contain, clean-up and reclaim the ecosystem of the Gulf of

Mexico. A resultant set of technologies are offered to create systems that would provide a

preventative program that would minimize and defend against such occurrences from happening

in other off-shore oil drilling situations.

The priorities of our emergency stance at this time should be to:

1. Begin analyzing and implementing non traditional approaches to close the well. The first

of which would be attempting a bottom kill by pumping about 200 tons of Cerrosafe

metal (approximately 20 cubic meters) in liquid form into the well. This will fall through

the oil and balance the 7,000 pound force that exists in the seven inch I.D. pipe at the

bottom of the well. This approach should be analyzed by chemists to ensure the system

phase stability prior to implementation.

2. Begin allocating initial funds into testing and evaluation of techniques and new

technologies to protect the wetlands. This should include the immediate implementation

of our wetland solutions. We feel that if funded, we could quickly demonstrate the

effectiveness of the techniques. The tidal circuit approaches are low risk and can be

started immediately. This money should be easy to acquire without many stringent

qualification requirements. This will allow the local people to become heavily involved

with the design and fielding of technologies and with saving their own wetlands,


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3. Put initial funds into developing a new high seas skimming system that can handle leak

rates ten times the leak rate that BP is experiencing. This approach is illustrated in the

cover image.

The current management approach by BP is one oriented upon a traditional approach that does

not readily accept new ideas or advanced technology solutions. We offer a solution set that

includes both traditional and an out-of-the-box solution because this crisis is so devastating that

it demands such applications. Our management team involves several small corporations as well

as several small aerospace corporations, Orbitec and SARA Corporation, as well as an aerospace

giant, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne; all of which have offered to operate as a subcontractor to

support this initiative and these activities. We are currently looking for a potential prime to

manage the financials, contracts, logistics and other functions that you would normally expect

from a prime.

PROBLEMS:

There is a Solution Log Jam – with over 150 proposals coming into the congressional offices

each day,.

National Security – The effect on the economy in the immediate local region could be considered

an attack at this point, the second and third order economic fall-out and concomitant

destabilization are a very real.

Capping – The efforts to date are failures.

Containment – Spraying chemically toxic dispersants onto the flow of oil is not much of a

solution. Lighting the oil on fire another double edged sword

Environment – The wetlands are at threat and as such, this will affect the lives of those into the

next 100 years at least. Many species will be devastated. It may take a thousand years to recover.

SOLUTIONS:

Solution Log Jam – We have access to literally thousands of years of collective experience and

access to sophisticated software that can analyze and correlate the Log Jam of proposals. One of

our top three key people was a senior analyst at the Defense Warning Office, specializing in

analyzing technology threats. We have the willingness and the capability to resolve most of the

problems and are prepared to work MANY solutions simultaneously.

National Security –We have the capacity to make the difference for the residents of the gulf,

those supported by its industry and those who rely on its products.

Capping – We have real life boots on the ground high level fixers who can handle this problem

and have the track record to prove it.

Containment – We have solutions in hand that address all aspects of cleaning up the oil that has

already been spilled, limiting the damage to the wetlands and enhancing the recovery of the

wetlands. While most should be implemented as soon as possible, a key one is a technology that


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is akin to covering the oil slick with ‘silica aerogel pillows’ that can then be brought on to a ship,

processed, and out the other side with the ‘pillows’ and sea water going back into the ocean for

more clean up, and the oil staying behind in the tanks of the ship.

Environment – We have some of the top biologists and chemists standing by ready to deploy

solutions. This has to be a grass roots effort akin to the mobilization of the US during WWII.

APPROACH:

There are numerous approaches to mitigating these problems;

Well - As far as the leaking well, Cerrosafe metal can be pumped in to the well to execute a

bottom kill (image at the end of the document.) It does not require the pressures required to do a

top kill since the metal will be a liquid and with a specific gravity greater than nine times heavier

than water, it will flow to the bottom of the well. Its melting point is between 158° - 190° F. See: http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=384/Product/CERROSAFE_reg__CHAMBER_CASTING_ALLOY

Wetlands - As far as protecting the wetlands, three come to mind immediately, all of which can

stop the oil at the periphery of the wetlands with their large capacity for absorbing oil. They are:

1. Fiberglass pillow and booms filled with large quantities of half millimeter sized

silica aerogel particles,

2. Manned or autonomous motorized fiberglass outrigger canoes equipped to

distinguish oil from water and preferentially vacuum it up, bag it and set it free to

drift in the water to be collected later.

3. Control of tidal flows in and out of the wetlands. Let water in from areas that are

free of oil and let it out in areas where the wetlands are threatened. This puts the

tide to work cleaning and protecting the wetlands.

The fiberglass pillow / silica aerogel approach is described in more detail below. There is a

problem with silica aerogel availability and production but production rates can be scaled

up to meet this emergency. We are rapidly reaching the point where we need to ramp to almost

wartime production levels (i.e. return Rosy the riveter to the factories) to get the materials and

equipment needed to stop this situation in its tracks. We need to cry havoc and let slip the dogs

of innovation. This is also an opportunity for increasing the employment in this area to

compensate for lost jobs due to the spill.

The autonomous outrigger canoe approach allows access to internal regions of the wetlands. It

distinguishes between oil and water and surface vacuums the former. This is also a technology

that puts people to work as it is made of fiberglass. Additional material on the canoes is

understandable to boat builders. They will eventually be powered by Stirling engines which use

the oil as fuel and the water as cooling.

STATUS:

The initiative already holds in its cadre members of MATRIC, Rocketdyne, NASA Ames, and a

slew of highly qualified engineering firms with practical and direct experience and proven track

records of delivering results in the public sector. Our team represents multiple thousands of

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cumulative years of experience in over-night start-up management, problem solving, A&E

projects, chemistry, physics, engineering, and biology. We are currently looking for a potential

prime to manage the financials, contracts, logistics and other functions that you would normally

expect from a prime. Our proprietary scientists are poised and ready for an influx of capital and a

‘go ahead’ from the powers that can approve this initiative to rapidly develop and deploy these

30+technologies. They have assessed the logistics and are prepared to deploy their resources.

Some projects are immediately deployable; others can be fabricated and deployed within 8 days

of design completion and receipt of materials at the fabrication shop. Others would take up to 3-4

weeks or more.

INTRODUCTION:

We have segmented our approach to be widely effective. We have multiple fixes for the capping

procedure, several for containment and a shining star for clean-up and reclamation. The only

possible agenda is to work the problem concurrently from every possible angle, and that the only

solution will come from cleverly liaising and organizing the mobilization of these proposed fixes

with authority, responsibility, and the right people. We suggest a:

Four-Pronged Approach: Containment, Capping, Clean up, and Creation of Sustainable Future

Solutions and Policy.

1. Open a small contract for the support of organizational efforts and work through network

connections to locate known innovators, rapid proto-typers and facilitators. An example

of the persons we have in mind would be Terry Farley whose Bechtel team put out 680

oil well fires in Kuwait.

2. Open a major cost plus level of effort contract to support this team with skilled logistic,

design, chemistry and machinist experts as well as cost estimators from industry.

3. Analyze and test ideas, then fabricate and implement solutions to mitigate or stop the oil

flow and recover the oil to remove the threat to shore and estuaries.

4. Some of the proposed solutions are short term and low cost. We recommend that they be

implemented immediately. Others are much more costly and need skilled engineering

design teams, logistics experts and highly skilled machinists, pipe fitters etc.

5. This effort should continue after this crisis has passed to develop and maturate new

game-changing technologies that will not fail as well as recovery equipment with much

higher production capability to handle spills twenty times larger. This effort should

evolve into evaluation and development of advanced energy technologies.

As a sample of our thinking pattern:

First: attempt sapanification of the oil hemorrhaging from the wellhead. This would involve

injecting chemicals into the piping below the blow out preventer, which will produce non-toxic


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byproducts,. We could then work on capping with three or four teams coordinated through our

offices.

Next: One of our researched cleanup fixes involves using fiberglass batting sewn around silica

aerogel. This would form ‘pillows’ that would float on the surface of the ocean collecting the oil.

Barriers made from these pillows would be much more effective at keeping the oil out of the

wetlands or removing oil that has already gotten there. We could then use fishing boats (we’re

pretty sure there are about a thousand fishing boats down there that would be happy to go back to

work) to replace the oil laden barriers with fresh ones and tow the spent ones out for more oil

removal.) They would also be happy to troll the pillows through the oil slicks at sea if you

provide the glass packs as tenders that would ‘purse seine’ the ‘pillows’ which could then be

taken aboard a ‘mother-ship’ tanker vessel. The pillows would then be treated to remove the oil,

the pillows and remaining sea water would be chucked back over into the spill. The remaining

oil would be placed into one of fifty centrifuges placed on the deck of the tanker (refit to be done

at Pascagoula) the reclaimed oil would be placed in the tanks.

The silica aerogels have the benefits of:

Non-Toxic mindful of the environment fix

Positive PR save for the president and supporting government agencies

Showing the public that we are not wasteful of the environment or of endangering the

dangerously collected resource is a good move in the right direction.

Gets the micron thick slick off of the surface.

They work in fiberglass batting material, which can be used over and over to reclaim oil

from the water.

These materials work when contained in large Silica pillows and Silica tubes similar to

conventional oil booms, however, both the pillows and the tubes can easily be set on fire

and dragged through the water as floating oil wicks burning as they go along. This

approach was tested extensively and neither the aerogel nor the Woven Silica Cloth

Pillows or Tubes are affected because they are, all of them, unaffected to 2,000 F +. The

temperature at the surface and within the pillows never reaches anything above 1,000 F.

The aerogel particulate, up to 4mm in diameter, can be literally sprinkled upon the water

surface and then strained, far easier than oil separation as a fluid, in its simplest format.

There exist supplies of aerogel in the U.S., Canada, Malaysia and Germany. However, we have

been scratching our heads trying to figure out how we could make up for lost time and scale up

to enormous quantities overnight. We originally proposed this method nearly 20 days ago.

Don Adrian (the originator of the aerogel concept) is intimately familiar with the various

chemical processes utilized to make silica aerogels hydrophobic / lipophilic. And all are directly

applicable to standard fiberglass Batt for insulation purposes. In addition, there exist other

"Coatings" used on solid glass that accomplish the same effect, short term. These materials are

used on glass windshields to produce the effect of stopping water from sheeting on the window

thus improving visibility. These chemicals are produced by Dow Chemical and they stock fairly

large quantities. This is not a true chemical treatment but we could use the Russian approach,

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Any one of these global suppliers require some lead time to ramp up production; BP is using

that argument to use the current dispersant, but has failed to give the green light to any

alternate producers, including dispersant producers, as an excuse for not even trying.

We have both huge inventories of fiberglass batting exist, but nowhere near the effective

surface area of aerogel. We have pretty good capabilities for proper hydrophobic treatment

where, the fiberglass batting can be squeezed out; Dow can provide the coating material as an

adjunct. The stuff will become waterlogged but should be easily reclaimable and can be put in

place, pull the oil out, and treat it later at the discretion of the user, either on shore or on

shipboard.

We could buy additional time by opening up the Mississippi to cause a backflow while we

deploy as much aerogel as we can and start ramping up production. By the time we are ready for

full deployment we will have scaled up the number of available vessels with centrifuges and/or

boom arms for skimming.

Concurrently: we would be creating safe aquaculture ponds using D-9’s and an army of grass-

roots labor to fill those ponds with complete, yet safe aquaculture pond materials to maintain the

aquatic population for reseeding after the disaster. This is evolving into a large WPA project

where:

Grass-roots labor can be raised quickly through social networking and guerilla marketing.

Training would be handled by team leaders who would be field biologists operating on a

model created by NASA Ames and MATRIC biologists/chemists would handle training.

Rapid recruitment, training in the field and deployment are necessary at this point.

Local Ocean going labor can also be raised as the residents are highly motivated. Again,

we are talking about additional employment opportunities.

If it were us, we would argue that the NOAA, the USCG, EPA or other government agencies

should give us a green light in the form of a purchase order guarantee, to go into full production

rather than leave these technologies on the sidelines underutilized. The EPA, NOAA, or the

USCG can make the appropriate argument that they made the decision to do too much rather than

the existing BP decision process to do far too little. One of the frustrations of the electorate is

that they are willing to help as Americans and these people, the citizens of our great country, are

being casually dismissed and shut out while those working on this crisis are not succeeding. We

like the illustration that in WWII all citizens contributed without regard to the extent that their

contribution could not be easily measured. This is about the American family, it is about

National pride and the Government’s mistake is to dismiss those who want to participate.

Our argument is that if the Administration acted smartly, the proper thing to do would be to

involve as many ideas, methodologies and citizens as possible in a united U.S. citizen effort as

BP should have done. Make this a citizen effort.

This is a sample of only one of our fixes, we are ready, use us.


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We invite you to read our proposal and look over our fixes, and at this point, with humility, we

implore you to employ our efforts.

Proposed Activity Regarding the Gulf Oil Spill

The Federal Government and BP are both evidently seeking solutions to this problem using

existing infrastructure and techniques. Current efforts are laudable and heroic but represent a

conventional approach. To those steeped within the conventional wisdom, simply working on the

current plan is satisfactory. This can lead to a singular effort instead of multiple parallel

approaches. This is analogous to using a silver bullet instead of a shotgun approach. If the single

bullet misses, all is lost. The shotgun approach is cheaper and much more likely to succeed in

finding several ways to solve the problem.

Basically engineers and bureaucracies are susceptible to the not invented here syndrome. They

will use leverage for leadership positions regardless of their skills. This needs to change and

independent short-term solutions should be immediately implemented in a badge-less,

bureaucracy free approach. We offer talent, expertise and the desire to see this problem resolved.

We must build a team of skilled individuals that can address various aspects of this crisis,

develop potential solutions and implement plans of action to mitigate or defuse the current and

any future oil/ecological crisis.

A team of engineers and scientists put together the following activities that focus on stopping the

spill, containing the oil and removing oil from contaminating the biosphere and environment.

Costs identified are minimums and the activity should be considered as a cost plus fixed fee for

best effort. Time limits are subject to availability and delivery times for equipment. We also need

authorization to proceed. We can use Bechtel or another A&E to tighten up the cost estimate and

the Navy machine shops at Pascagoula Shipyard to do some of the fabrication. We need a level

of effort contract to get chemists and machinist spun up. Also some of these activities require a

Bureaucracy and Badge Free Zone: B Squared FZ or BBFZ.

The following ideas are subject to refinement based on available current knowledge of actual

wellhead environmental conditions and equipment status. New concepts will be added as new

ideas come to mind as required to stop the oil leakage.

CONTAINMENT:

1. New blind blowout preventer installed next to the existing BOP stack provided there is

clearance. This system would be articulated to be installed like a Victaulic coupling. System

would have hydraulic or bolt operated clamp. Activities involve building a new valve using the

existing valve.

Materials and Equipment:

- Dual blind BOP valve

- 6 days in the machine shop around the clock

- concurrent design and development of hydraulic and electronic systems


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- transport

- delivery to undersea robots

- attachment and actuation

Total Cost $200k to $250k + cost of BOP, materials and robotic operations.

Total time to complete - eight days

2. Liquid nitrogen freeze plug (may need liquid hydrogen) to slow the leak rate and plug if

possible. May have to inject something into the pipe to facilitate the process.

Cost ~ $250k + cost of materials and robotic operations.

Fabricate time - five days.

Other Methods in Brief:

3. Drill a hole in the pipe and inject it with quick setting epoxy that would harden by the time it

got to the leaking portions of the pipe, possibly plugging the leaks. Cost ~ $250k + cost of

materials and robotic operations. Fabrication time - five days Operations 3 days.

4. Inject the pipe with monomers, water and catalysts forming nylon or other polymers to create

filaments that would plug the pipe leaks and the stuck BOP valve or at least facilitate the freeze

plug process. Cost ~ $250k + cost of materials and robotic operations. Fab time - five days

Operations 3 days.

5. Inject molten polystyrene plastic and barbed metal ribbons into the pipe to plug leaks. Cost ~

$250k + cost of materials and robotic operations. Fab time - five days Operations 3 days.

6. Inject water into the pipe at high pressure to slow or stop the leak by replacing the flow with

water. Injecting sand and gravel may also be useful. Cost ~ $200k + cost of materials and

robotic operations. Fabrication time - five days, ops time three days.

8. Heat the blow out preventer to the highest temperature the components can withstand and try

cycling the BOPs again. Cost ~ $100k + cost of materials and robotic operations.

9. Attempt to open, then close the BOP one component at a time. The hydraulics lines may be

installed backwards. Activity will use existing equipment already in the area. Ops cost only.

10. Inject rolled up or folded screens (like stints) or fabrics to facilitate plugging the holes. Cost

~ $400k + cost of materials and robotic operations.

11. Set up an explosive to crimp the pipe. Design a system to completely crimp the pipe after

three rounds in order to prevent complete disruption of the system with resultant worsening of

the leak. Cost $200k to $250k + cost of materials and robotic operations.


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12. Use positive displacement metering pumps to inject controlled amounts of hypergolics and

oxygen into the pipe to create controlled burns in the pipe to generate pressure and coke etc.

Cost ~ $250k + cost of materials and robotic operations.

13. A new idea is the use of sopanification, which converts the oil into a chemical soap. This is

achieved by injecting liquid sodium metal separately along with water into the pipe riser. Soap

won't get to the shore. This represents an interim measure to get rid of the oil slick while the leak

is being fixed. This should be started immediately.

CLEANUP:

1. Contract and bring the Valdez Star and the Shearwater skimming ship to the Gulf if it isn't

already there. Possibly $300k per day.

2. Increase efficiency of the skimming process and integrate it with centrifuges on ships that are

designed to separate oil, water, and dirt.

a) Use GPS to control the positioning and paths of skimming vehicles along two

parallel fronts moving in opposite directions about a mile apart. This

technology already exists in large scale agriculture. ~ $100k to design and $3k per

unit.

b) Fit thousands of small boats with looped de-oiling rags and floating oil bladders

with transponders or identifiable radar reflectors. The boats fill the bladders and

leave them in the water to be picked up by recovery boats. These boats can also

refuel and re provision the skimming boats. ~$10,000 per ship when purchased in

bulk buy.

c) Outfit a medium size oil tanker with about fifty triple phase decanting scroll

centrifuges to separate the oil from the water. The water goes overboard while the

oil goes in the tanker. The installation of the piping for the decanters can be done

concurrently with their procurement and delivery to the Gulf, The goal is to

increase the mass flow rate of oily water through the system to increase the

production rate of the skimming process. Cost ~ $5k per day for the lesser + cost

of fuel ($100k per day) and crew >$100k per day + the cost to install the piping

and separation system. It would be useful to install this type of equipment so that

any container ship could be quickly fitted to participate in oil clean up operations.

d) Outfit a tanker as above but with scaled up lube oil purifiers ( much simpler

devices than the scroll decanters but may not be available in large

quantities.) Costs as above plus the cost of opening a production line to produce

large scale lube oil purifiers.

e) Block oil access with a fibrous floating cottony material about one foot tall to

intercept and hold the oil. The main goal is to have something that has a surface

area about 100 times the area of water that it covers. If made of the right material,


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it can be taken into a boat, de-oiled and returned to the water with the same

floating capabilities and > 90% absorbing capacity of the original material. Cost

unknown, talking to DuPont.

f) Drop dust or fine grained sand on the oil slick from ships or aircraft to weigh it

down and sink it. Cost of aircraft operations. Dry clay powder is suitable for this

application. Material should be relatively inexpensive.

3. Open the old river control structure and let the Mississippi flow into the delta to push the oil

back out to the sea. This will disrupt shipping for a couple of months depending on how it is

done. It could give the recovery effort more time and save the delta. Install locks and gates to

continue shipping through New Orleans while the river revives the delta. Cost unknown but

cheaper than the loss of the fisheries.

4. Fiberglass outrigger oil skimming booms with oil detecting suction system. Let Burt Rutan

design it and have it made all over the country at surfboard and boat building organizations.

5. Out skimmers with continuous oil bagging capabilities. Use the same process as bagging

snack food. Seal the bag at intervals and put a transponder and inflatable radar retro reflector

on each bag.

6. Oil detecting vacuum suction system. Will suck up oil but ignore water. Many ways to make

the detectors will use photonics and electronic remote detection for now.

7. Start replacing power plants for boats with Stirling engines. Get production increase in

Sweden and pull from old cars in Sweden. This allows the cleanup effort to use the spilled oil as

fuel instead of getting gas from land.

8. Dual boom two tanker collection system. Outrigger based booms pulled stretched between two

tankers. Oil detection system lets oil into the boom suction for transport to the tankers. A second

boom strung between the tankers about 100 ft behind the first is less discriminating and sucks up

most of the remaining oil. The oil water from the second boom is centrifuged but the oil from the

first is not. Oilers meet up with the tankers without disrupting operations and transfer the oil to

shore.

9. Conga line of tankers clean up a wide swath of the Gulf in a single pass then turn around and

do it again like cleaning the ice on a rink with a Zamboni.

10. Continuous autonomous mapping of oil with autonomous fish finder drones with links for

image processing.

12. Revise the water flow in the estuaries with barriers and dams to set up tidal flow circuits

keep oil out of pristine areas set up check valves to cause oil to out flow through polluted areas.

13. Hawaiian style fish ponds to trap and feed fish for re introduction after wetland clean up.


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14. Oyster ponds similar to 13.

15. Ponds for feeding seabirds. Live fish shipped in from un affected areas of the gulf.

16. Layered mud sampling and storage for re inoculation of bacteria after during wetland

restoration.

17. Plant collection, sheltering and replacement during clean up (similar to rice farming.)

18. Oil sensing dynamic booms (at sea) selectively let water through but not oil.

19. Tankers with oil detection systems along with scroll centrifuges on board and self propelled

outrigger skimmers with suction oil boom linked into the outrigger skimming control system.

20. Oil bagging shore barrier system collects and isolates oil as it approaches estuaries.

21. Federal mandate to temporarily revise wetlands as needed at states discretion.

22. Tiger team of biologists and innovators to assess vulnerabilities.

23. Mandate to use DOD, NASA, Army Corp. Of Engineers, Navy shipyards etc. as necessary.

24. Arrangement to get un used oil tankers and container ships refitted on an emergency basis

both in route and at port facilities for oil skimming and processing.

25. Form a joint task force between the Army Corps of Engineering and the Coast Guard to

include inland waters and water works subject to the threat of oil spills.

26. Form advanced biotechnology teams to arrange non seed based propagation of estuary

plants and animal species for the restoration effort.

27. Initiate a Strike Force (fire fighting system from Rockwell Space Systems Division) type

command and resource control system to manage aspects of the spill and cleanup.

28. Find a way to foam and gel oil so it floats to the surface and forms large blobs that do not

spread across the surface.

29. Find a way to use bacteria to form the oil into mats, which can be picked out of the water.

30. Divert a portion of the nation’s oil usage into making polymers to trap oil and anchor it in

the water so the wind cannot push it ashore.

31. Pump clean water into estuaries via a large pipeline to create positive seaward outflow at

threatened regions of the wetlands.

32. Refit an oil tanker to pick up an enormous amount oil (using the detection system) for

discharge at port refineries or to oilers that take it back to port or to ships with centrifuges. A


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task force of about 4 ships. The tanker is big enough to pick up oil across a wide area. Use 4

tankers in a conga line.

DISPERSING CHEMICALS:

1. Use USAF fuel tankers filled with specific chemicals.

2. Use the DC-10 with its underbelly water tank that is used to fight forest fires in California and

the adjoining states.

3. Use crop dusters from the immediate region to disperse chemicals.

ADAVANCED TECHNOLOGIES:

1. One concept indicates that acoustic vibrations can be used to change the oil direction within

the existing pipeline.

2. Capsize and sink an old oil tanker above the three leaks to contain the oil, which would now

fill the tanker’s oil cargo hold. This would then be drained off at a later date to be used to pay

for the clean-up. This is extreme high risk because ship has to be placed in a neutral buoyancy

capability and may not be correctly oriented over the leaks. Moreover, the leaks are in a pipe

that may be a mile long and possibly exceed the length of the ship.

3. The Chinese have demonstrated technology to use a ship augmented with

magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) to siphon off and separate oil from an ocean environment. We

are attempting to compile data concerning their capabilities and how it can timely impact this

activity.

PREVENTION:

1. Develop a training and oversight program that facilitates the ability to respond efficiently on

short notice to possible future spills, as well as accidents or disasters of all kinds. Develop an

overall standard that can be applied separately to any model.

2. Develop and standardize the technologies to be deployed for each instance, determine proper

training and drills for deployment of this technology and implement that system with the

technologies mentioned above.

3. Develop and maintain a list that is refreshed once every three months of the private sector

entities with the ability to respond with problem solving capabilities on short notice. Keep this

list vital, active, and relevant.

4. Immediately train a group within the DHS for deployment to conduct audits of all resource

gathering commercial entities. Deploy these units without delay to avoid any further problems in

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POLICY:

1. Seize the domestic assets of BP for the following reasons:

a) Failure to comply with license requirements

b) Failure to address emergency in a timely manner

c) Failure to respect or protect their host country’s security

d) To cover the costs of cleaning up the spill

e) To cover the losses to the Gulf States that will arise in a loss of tourism

f) To make reparation to the fishery industry as a whole

Once the assets are seized they can be redeployed in any one of the following manners:

a) Auction them off to the highest bidder of a domestic concern.

b) Allow for an investment from the private sector that is to reach $3b, half of which is

immediately deployed in the clean-up effort, the other half into developing the

infrastructure of BP’s mining assets here in the US. The income provided to the investors

would be tax free for the next decade as a response to encourage inward investment on

short notice, and to relieve the loss the investors would have in underwriting the clean-up

efforts.

c) Be held in trust until such time as the capital generated has covered the clean-up costs,

and then with proof of capacity for responsible management, return the assets to BP or

the entity that will then control BP.

2. Rededicate large amounts of investment capital to develop alternative energy along the lines

of this proposal. ie: Multiple paths in advanced sciences managed by a new model in the private

sector to secure competitive success.

3. Provide the administration with an overall systems template for response that is effective

regardless of the situation; in essence revisit the system that responds to these emergencies so

that no future administration will suffer the same effects of the shock that came with 911,

Katrina, or now with the Gulf.

4. Make sure we engage the citizenry in these endeavors as investors, paid workers, and as

consultants to offset the angst and encourage responsibility in a revitalized manner.

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT:

If we are really going to mitigate the crisis we need to understand what we are focusing on: Our

current stance is process and tradition based, it should be results based.


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To do this one should immediately do several things:

1. Select cross trained experienced people who are experienced fiduciaries with the will,

intent, focus and big picture perspective needed to make things progress in a timely

manner,

2. Place outsized authority and resources in their hands but only under the conditions of a

continuous low to medium level audit (in my situation as a Nuclear Test Engineer at

Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, I was under continuous audit by eight different

organizations.,)

3. Use staff authority meaning if something is critical or opportune, take action and update

management when possible,

4. Train and utilize staff support to document and keep good track of information,

5. Break protocol, that is traditional ways of doing business must not be allowed to frustrate

valid and safe methods or approaches,

6. Take off the badges to allow people to communicate more easily and self organize to

solve problems locally

7. The lead needs to control who is on the team.

8. Provide training as part of the tasks for instance, everyone needs to understand the

difference between a fiduciary and a functionary

9. Promulgate Project status and general plans daily.

FINANCIAL:

We estimate many of our fixes can be deployed and implemented for $250k machine shop costs

ea. + Equipment, Materials and Operations costs. Much can be obtained from already committed

entities: the Navy, Air Force, or Coast Guard, Cameron International and BP. Costs of the

damage are nearing $12.5 billion dollars; we estimate we can deliver for far less than that cost.

The stated costs are preliminary ROMs that we will evaluate via A&Es, industry and shipyard

analysts. Price inflation on materials may be experienced when buying priority usage and

procurement.

Funds should be made available to eliminate any short fall of agency technical understanding by

a program of guided training. We have the capability to actively guide such a process and

identifying potential employees to expedite this activity and that we initiate this program and

manage it until the results are certified by a distinguished body such as the NRC via the various

technical studies boards.

1. Put an initial purchase order into testing and evaluation of techniques and new

technologies to protect the wetlands. This should include the immediate implementation

of our wetland solutions. If funded, we will quickly demonstrate the effectiveness of the

techniques. The tidal circuit approaches are low risk and can be started immediately. This

money should be easy to acquire without many stringent qualification requirements. This

will allow the local people to become heavily involved with the design and fielding of

technologies and saving their own wetlands,

2. Put an initial purchase order into developing a new high seas skimming system that can

handle leak rates ten times the leak rate that BP is experiencing.


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3. Begin implementing the non traditional approaches to close the well.

Agencies should be subdivided and certain aspects like communications, rescue and logistics

integrated to some extent to ensure a common inter agency understanding of imperatives and

issues.

The funding of agencies should be cross audited to prevent the prospect of discretely defunding

an agency in an attempt to limit its effectiveness. A discretionary pool of money should be made

available to agencies to cover the costs of auditors and inspectors in situations where there arises

a need for more audit, inspection and certification efforts.

These approaches would allow the agencies to ensure that companies like BP are using the

correct dispersants, and setting up and running drills as training for status evolution and

emergencies.

CALL TO ACTION:

Since the oil has already penetrated the wetlands, we ask that the go-ahead for the silica aerogel

approach be given immediate approval and the examination of the rest of proposal be expedited

and enabled with a cost-plus best effort fixed-fee contract to work and fix the current problems

as well as to create preventative measures for future situations.

We request an opportunity to provide this proposal to senior policy makers such as:

Chief of Staff Rom Emanuel

Secretary Salazar of the EPA

Admiral Mary Landry

Eric Berkowitz of NOAA

Bill Lear of NOAA

Gordon Miles of University of TX

Goodman of NASA

We also request an opportunity to put Mr. Ed McCullough or Mr. Paul Murad, in front of these

individuals to provide a short verbal brief if possible.

CONCLUSION:

We understand this is a difficult problem that will impact the ecosystem of the Gulf Coast and

that this could spread to the East Coast up to Cape Hatteras. Moreover, the Gulf Stream can

carry this oil to the UK and Europe creating a worldwide crisis if it is not

contained within a reasonable time. We within this initiative offer more than

ample solutions to this problem. We look forward to helping resolve this crisis as

well as offer a preventive program that allows treating future endeavors that

could arise from offshore drilling.


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We, within this initiative, look forward to assist and to implement innovative technology

solutions to solve this critical problem to restore the ecosystem of the Gulf. We also offer a

preventive program to train, test, inspect, perform drills, and offer a unique tool chest of

additional solutions to either prevent or mitigate any future crisis of this nature.

KEY GROUPS & CONTACTS:

McCullough Innovations & Consulting

Ed McCullough: Mobile 1-951-284-9858: http://www.explainingthebigpicture.com

The Morningstar Group

Paul Murad: Office 1-703-759-2028: http://www.morningstargrp.com

Morgan Boardman: Mobile 1-805-889-7012: http://www.morningstargrp.com

Aerie-Engineering

Tom Poulin: http://www.aerie-engineering.com 1-951-312-9937

These are other players we can draw in quickly:

Kris Holland Mafic Studios www.maficstudios.com/

Rocketdyne - http://www.pwrengineering.com/

MATRIC R&D - http://www.matricresearch.com/

SARA - http://www.sara.com/

Orbitec - http://www.orbitec.com/

Image of 10 pounds of Cerrosafe ingot.

http://www.aerie-engineering.com/

Documents

New Horizon Initiative - EPA, NOAA, USCG, USDA Distribution Copy