Oil Spill Containment Solution - Water Halocline Barrier - part 1

This is a proposal of a potential immediate solution for the oil spill containment problem in the Gulf of Mexico, that has caused catastrophic ecologic destruction. This proposal offers a solution that I am highly confident would work effectively at the containment of the oil spill. Although halocline barriers have not been used before for oil leak containment by man, they are observed in several locations in nature in geographic locations where different water bodies with strong salinity gradients meet, and act as effective separators of water bodies' content.

This proposal is patent-pending, and essentially the strategy is to create a fresh water / salt water barrier halocline by pumping fresh water on top of the oil leak source, that would allow the creation of a fresh water reservoir inside the salty ocean water. This reservoir has no walls, floor, or roof, just the fresh water body coexisting within the salt water ocean environment. The fresh water would form a barrier (halocline) due to the salinity gradient and density gradient. The halocline barrier physics would retain the contents of the fresh water, including undissolved oil and toxic dissolved gas, and prevent it from spreading further into the salty ocean water. Haloclines will form a vertical barrier and retain the density of undissolved matter and solutes concentrations about the barrier boundary. So in the meeting of two water bodies, one fresh and the other salty, forming a halocline, the contents do not mix or transition from one type of water to the adjacent type of water, and pressure is equalized about the barrier boundary.

The source of the fresh water can be the Mississippi river which is at close proximity (about 50 miles) from the oil leak site in the Gulf of Mexico . In the short term, tanker ships can bring in the water for pumping on top of the oil leak source and then rotate to sustain a continuous pumping operation, and potentially a longer term proposal would be to create a pipeline from the Mississippi River to the oil leak source. This would buy substantial amount of time for the government / BP to stop the leak, and save the environment at the same time.

Some more technical details are required, however, this solution is economical, inexpensive, fast, and effective, and at a scale that is massive enough to contain the oil spill.

Please promote the viewing of this 15 min video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LytSY9Rrq_0 Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKTXrQoNHgo Part 2

Also view Images of Water Halocline Barriers in Nature
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-468060

See also my reports on ireport.com
Oil Spill Containment Solution - Water Halocline Barrier
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-462092

Also view "How relief wells may work? A Model"
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-467617

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[XtremeCao]

if we use freshwater from the mississippi, wouldn't we see invasive species in the halocline barrier?

[rollsthepaul]

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