Monday, June 7, 2010

Thirteenth Letter to Mr. Obama on June 7, 2010

Mr. Barack Obama

President of the United States of America

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. Obama,

Ignoring Hydrology and Oil Spill in the Mexican Gulf

Hydrology has been ignored for a century in the Patenting Affairs curbing a technological development that seems to be a keystone on hydrodynamic functioning to stop the oil leaking. This is my 13th letter sent to you getting no reply so far.

When I say that my first pat. US 6,766,817 issued in 2004 cancels around 50,000 patents and open room for another 200,000 new ones is because principles of Classical Hydrology has been ignored on fluidic devices in the patenting system for a century. Unsaturated Hydraulic Flow (wick/wicking) was coined in the scientific literature in 1906 by Edgard Buckingham to address flow above the water table updating Darcy’s Law proposed in 1853 on Hydraulic Conductivity.

Clogging the well: Detachment, transport, and deposition of particles in the mass flow dynamics were totally ignored. Instead of using mud, gulf ball, and shredded tires BP was supposed to use high density particles capable of going down the well lumen by gravity against a bubbling upward flow of 1.2 cm/s. A simple prototype trial would provide the predicted performance of sand, coarse sand, pebbles, marbles, bolts, nails, etc. Cylindrical format would enhance density reducing the dragging effect of upward flow against gravity. Nail like format gives pointed lower surface and head for efficient upright descending.

Sucking the Oil: BP made a simple mistake of ignoring that a fluid column o a mile upward becomes excessively heavy to provide enough suction power down to grab all the leaking oil. The fundamentals of Molecular Connectivity is in one of my patent applications dealing with the transfer of energy between rotating energy and inertial energy by no partitioning mass flow. Now in case clogging the well fails a potential fast and efficient solution to suck the leaking oil is to send the pumps down near the leaking to develop a stronger sucking power and push the fluid mass upward. Sucking power of pumping for a mile down due to partitioning of mass flow dynamics is highly restrictive by molecular connectivity on traction.

Since 2006 in written communication I have been demanding USPTO to stop a massive infringement on my issued patent rights suggesting the following below to USPTO:

1. Hire Examiners with background in Hydrogeology and/or Soil Physics so that they have full comprehension of fluids moving on porosity;

2. Cancel issued patents with scientific flaws. Obsolete patents are cancelled naturally by becoming outdated;

3. Make a public statement about Hydrology negligence hurting all Hydrological community as well as my project that needs experts in Hydrology to protect the content of my issued claims.

4. Compensate for my losses since as an inventor filing patents I was not expecting lay people handling hydrology in the examination process by USPTO.

5. Since USPTO is failing to protect my IP rights my patents should be eligible for time extension of their expiration dates (new demand).

6. Issue a bill requiring Hydrology be handled by Hydrologists preventing laypeople from harming standing common knowledge in the scientific literature (new demand).

7. Make people accountable for breaking the Law regarding my complaints (new demand).

Indeed it will be harmful to your reputation if the oil keeps leaking till August as you continue ignoring Hydrology Science insights which could have provided easy solutions to curb it in the very early beginning causing huge economic and environmental damage.

Furthermore, there is no doubt that down the line deep water drilling industry requires advanced Hydrology for performance and safety. When knowledge is suppressed critical problems are not addressed accordingly on the core.

Nature blesses you and the United States of America getting the consequences for ignoring Hydrology.

Kind regards,

Campinas, Brazil, June 07, 2010

Elson Silva, Ph. D.

Av. Dr. Júlio Soares de Arruda, 838

Parque São Quirino

CEP 13088-300 - Campinas - SP - Brazil

Phone 55 *19 3256-7265

Email: el_silva@uol.com.br

(http://hydrotechnology.blogspot.com/)

Twelfth Letter to Mr. Obama on May 30, 2010

Mr. Barack Obama

President of the United States of America

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. Obama,

Stopping the Oil Spill

The oil spill could be halted in few hours or days if the appropriate approach is employed adequately using common knowledge plenty on scientific literature.

The ‘top kill’ operation just failed because instead of mud, gulf balls, and tires, BP was supposed to use sand, coarse sand, pebbles, marbles, bolts, nails, etc.

Go to any river shore throwing mud, gulf balls, and a marble to see how the rapids respond to the transportation and deposition of such things. A river is diverted with rocks and heavy bodies capable of standing the erosive forces of flowing masses. This is a basic knowledge at my PhD at Soil Erosion and Conservation on the dynamics of detachment, transportation, and deposition of soil aggregate on runoff. I learned it deeply on my PhD at Penn State University and even I have some ongoing patents associated to such forces on filtering system allowing self-cleaning features.

The well 22 inches spewing about 15,000 barrels a day is carryon an upward flow at the average speed of about 1.2 cm/s certainly having higher speed in the center and lower speed in the border due to dragging effect of a still containment barrier. Heavy particles and specific format objects can percolate easily through the well lumen slowly reducing the speed and allowing smaller and smaller particles till it clog completely. The well 4.5 km deep can be easily clogged by an appropriate approach from Soil Erosion insights dealing with detachment, transport, and deposition of sediments.

Why BP is not doing it?

Just because BP has no PhD in Soil Science in their team to handle the dynamic mass flow complexity, just Geologists.

Mr. Obama, it is so simple to run some trials and gauge the best sediments and objects to percolate downward against an upward flow velocity of 1.2 cm/s and start injecting the appropriate material to clog and halt the oil spill. Also, it is easy to gauge the upward velocity variation from the center outward to the boundaries.

My suggestion to you is just to resign for continuous failing on your leadership. This is my 12th letter demanding respect to science and put appropriate personnel at USPTO to honor my patents that are constantly violated. It is not a surprise if Officials at USPTO are also watching pornography instead of doing their duties. USPTO is running in the same fashion as Mineral Management Service with a deeply malfunctioning patenting system that allows multiple filing using a distorted approach to allow rich parties to reinvent what is already invented disrespecting science, common knowledge and issued patents. Also there is a cozy association between USPTO and huge corporations on patenting affairs.

Shamefully my ‘scientific discovery’ was violated again last week since USPTO is allowing any invention being reinvented as many times as money comes in mainly on Hydrology affairs. You do not care about SCIENCE.

I am not surprised if this letter is ignored again letting my science be violated with the consequences of failing leadership. The consequences come as the oil is gushing from the seabed and teaching Americans about the importance of respecting NATURE and SCIENCE and the importance of HONESTY. Let’s the oil spill and my IP rights be dishonored. Who cares?

Nature blesses you and the United States of America teaching on the balance of nature and honesty.

Kind regards,

Campinas, Brazil, May 30, 2010

Elson Silva, Ph. D.

Av. Dr. Júlio Soares de Arruda, 838

Parque São Quirino

CEP 13088-300 - Campinas - SP - Brazil

Phone 55 *19 3256-7265

Email: el_silva@uol.com.br

(http://hydrotechnology.blogspot.com/)