Deep Sea Oil Recovery and Drilling Skirt Demonstration
The River Recycler System uses a variety of components in new ways. Is a small scale demonstration of some of the key elements. In the beginning you see the pipe on the dock, this is then lowered to the ocean floor. The filling station remains above sea level, while the solid pipe below stretches down to the ocean floor. The flexible pipe gradually climbs as it traverses to the reservoir at the other end of the dock. The physics of water density provide a natural flow. In the reservoir there is an orange balloon filled with a mixture that is approximately half the density (gravity) difference between the fresh water and the surrounding sea water, as the reservoir fills the balloon lowers showing us the level of the fresh water contained.