To my supporters,
The Project Pitch below was submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) on Nov. 15, 2019. Then on Nov. 20, 2019 the NSF sent an email, a copy below, and invited me to submit a full proposal to the NSF SBIR/STTR Phase I program.
The NSF submittal instructions are in blue, and my project descriptions are in black. Scroll toward the bottom of this page to learn how you can go shopping to help with this process.
Richard C. Russo
Project Pitch
Startups or entrepreneurs who submit a three-page Project Pitch* will know within three weeks if they meet the program’s objectives to support innovative technologies that show promise of commercial and/or societal impact and involve a level of technical risk. They will also get additional guidance and feedback from NSF staff.
If your Project Pitch is a good fit for the program, you will receive an official invitation from NSF to submit a full proposal. If you’re not invited to submit, you’ll be told why your project is not appropriate for the program.
Along with your company information, you’ll have to outline four key elements in your Project Pitch:
1. The Technology Innovation. (Up to 500 words)
Describe the technical innovation that would be the focus of a Phase I project, including a brief discussion of the origins of the innovation as well as explanation as to why it meets the program’s mandate to focus on supporting research and development (R&D) of unproven, high-impact innovations.
There are two points of focus of this new technology. Firstly, this invention relates to forces of nature being transformed by rotary motion into energy that can be readily available for consumption, including places and by means that have been considered not feasible or viable by today’s industry standards. And secondly, the manipulation of sediment capture without using traditional dredging practices or equipment.
Much of the energy consumed by entities require hydrocarbon fossil fuel sources. Utilizing these fuels emit elements into the environment that have created an alert that requires the reduction of these fuel emissions. Accordingly, the nonrenewable nature of these fuels has guided industry and public opinion that the field of technology is to seek alternative sources. It is the object of this invention to provide useful energy by utilizing multiple forces of nature simultaneously or separately. This invention accumulates each of these forces as they are available by transporting a portion of the water they influence into a central containment area.
It meets the program’s mandate because it provides new knowledge to meet the recognized need of alternative energy sources and the production of useful energy that is not of the conventional construction methods. Therefore it reaches out beyond what is obvious to bring in the solution of what is not obtainable by current knowledge. For example, the current knowledge concludes of reducing ocean level rise and maintaining the controlled level is that it is futile to try, because the ocean is too big. And that erosion reversion is unsustainable. This conclusion is correct because there is not enough oil in the ground or out of the ground to displace the kind of sediment that is required to achieve these unprecedented goals. It will require a new and adequate source of energy and technological breakthrough to succeed in this massive undertaking.
2. The Technical Objectives and Challenges. (Up to 500 words)
Describe the R&D or technical work to be done in a Phase I project, including a discussion of how and why the proposed work will help prove that the product or service is technically feasible and/or significantly reduce technical risk. Discuss how, ultimately, this work could contribute to making the new product, service, or process commercially viable and impactful. This section should also convey that the proposed work meets the definition of R&D, rather than straightforward engineering or incremental product development tasks.
The work to be done is to test the inventions, entitled The Tide Pump and The Sediment Capture Syphon Barge, in the Louisiana wetlands to eventually return the wetlands loss land back to dry land, and maintain waterways. The Sediment Capture Syphon Barge will capture sediment to build a levy enclosure around open salt water. The Tide Pump system will pump out the enclosure and bring back the dry land.
With all the efforts to save the wetlands, ocean level rise will eventually over top the landscape. All the world’s fertile deltas will be lost to ocean level rise and our habitable land mass will be reduced, while the world’s population increases. The solution is to capture sediment out of the oceans and build habitable islands, thus preserving our land mass and increasing agricultural land. The displaced sediment will give the arctic water a place to go without raising the oceans. Building elevated barrier islands in segments along the Louisiana coastline with closed gates between the segments will prevent storm surge from entering the wetlands. Then opening the gates when there is no storm surge.
The Tide Pump does not use fuel which makes it cost effective. The automated system built into the barrier islands will use tide, wave, wind, solar, and precipitation to elevate water. In the same way that hoover damn creates energy, but on a much smaller scale individually, we can capture the energy of falling water. The energy produced by the elevated water can be used to compress air into a pipeline that is built into the barrier islands. Anyone can tap into the pipeline to run off the grid pneumatic pumps, tools, motors, devices and generators. We already have abandoned pipelines existing in the wetlands that can be put back into use to distribute the compressed air to anyone that can benefit in these remote areas to assist in the pump out and sediment flooding of various enclosures. The captured energy of the tide pump can also assist the sediment syphon barge (or permanent station) to maintain the navigable depths of any river, port, or marina without the need for dredging on a regular basis.
If the test is successful, it can be used to dredge any river including the Mississippi River. The city of New Orleans is asking for help with the problem of maintaining the depth of the river for the port. Money from the port that is used the dredge the river every year can be used to maintain the barrier islands. The alternative energy produced can assist the syphon to maintain the required depth for the larger ships. This will prevent the loss of commerce that the port is facing.
To implement this system will assure a sustainable future for Louisiana and beyond in the face of climate change. The wetlands can become the Louisiana Wetlands Energy Center, creating a new industry in Louisiana and the United States to provide energy and the manufacturing of this technology to the world.
3. The Market Opportunity. (Up to 250 words)
Describe the customer profile and pain point(s) that will be the near-term commercial focus related to this technical project.
The city of New Orleans as described above is just one example of many potential markets. Land owners who have lost their land to saltwater can use this technology to bring back their land. Many nations who are faced with the same plight as Louisiana will consider its usefulness. As this technology expands into other applications, the markets will expand.
4. The Company and Team. (Up to 250 words)
Describe the background and current status of the applicant small business, including key team members who will lead the technical and/or commercial efforts discussed in this Project Pitch.
I have a small cabinet making business that I used to develop this technology to its current state, and will continue to use my skills and creative engineering to expand this technology into a fabrication facility as adequate future funding is provided with workable conditions. Similarly to the growth of my cabinetry business, as my work load increased in the cabinet making business, I will use my business prowess to obtain and train workers as the demand grows for this technology. My current focus is to advance this technology, as I have not been taking cabinet jobs, to do the marketing, research and development. My son who is a residential building contractor will be a key team member in the commercialization of this project to produce a new green energy technology, while saving coastal lands from erosion loss, and ultimately reduce ocean level rise.
Here is the copy of the NSF email:
To:myspacercr@yahoo.com,rmehta@salesforce.nsf.gov
Nov 20 at 11:23 AM
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