How To Fix The Gulf Oil Spill?
The Deep-water Oil Recovery System (DORS)
The Deep-water Oil Recovery System (DORS) is a simple, inexpensive and robust plan that is quickly implementable and with a manufacturer standing by ready to produce the device in as little as two weeks. On this web site you will find an overview of the system but will also provide a forum for other concerned citizens to post their own ideas and solutions for the multitude problems that this national tragedy has created. There is a helpful resources section with links to sites devoted to helping people in the area track the spill and attempt to deal with the cleanup. If not the system we are proposing, then some system needs to be created now to deal with both this spill and to stand ready to guard against any future spills so that this tragedy will never happen again.
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This system is a concept only. At this time it is
not under construction nor in deployment!
A small group of business owners with engineering and manufacturing capabilities to reach 5000 feet below sea level to the Deepwater Horizon's well site is working on a system to contain the Gulf oil spill. The plan is known as the "Deepwater Oil Recovery System" (DORS). DORS will not cap the well but instead contain the oil at the wellhead, prevent it from further contaminating the ocean, and channel it to the surface for collection. The system can work alongside and augment BP’s current efforts without interfering with them. It is passive and is not connected to the wellhead, but suspended above the well to collect escaping oil not collected by BP’s cap. It cannot do further damage and poses no risk to the current collection efforts or equipment. Since this system is not actually attached to the well it is one of the few proposed systems can also be used to contain leaks stemming from fissures on the sea bottom around the wellhead.
The DORS plan has been submitted to BP’s Deepwater Horizon’s official suggestion site. It also has been uploaded as a “white paper” to the Coast Guard's DHS site for review under the name “A Flexible Buoyancy Driven Deep Water Crude Oil Recovery and Containment System by Jeff Holden of Holden Development and Marketing”. Scherba Industries of Brunswick, Ohio which has extensive experience building very large complex structures of this nature, is exploring design options to build the system. A summary of the plan has been sent to the office of the President of the United States, as well as all affected states’ representatives and governors. We are moving ahead to advanced blueprints, a materials selection process, scale modeling, and continued efforts to assess the overall viability of the system.
It is important for this project to move forward as quickly as possible due to the ongoing contamination of the Gulf. Therefore, the current team is operating WITHOUT the assistance of the federal government or BP. If you have technical experience in deepwater environments, Internet marketing, government contacts, or other areas that you think would be helpful and you want to volunteer your expertise, please let us know via email.
If approved by the administration and BP, construction of the DORS should take about two to four weeks from the time designs are finalized. If you have an interest in seeing this plan move forward, consider sending this link www.gulfoilspillsolution.org to your congressman or local representative. If you want to mail them the design overview please click on the PDF button below to download a printable version. Please visit www.electedlist.com for their contact information
The DORS Team (Holden Development and Scherba Industries)
