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      Sediment Capture Tide Pump Fact Sheet, Click Here!

On April 14, 2014 the Technical Committee concluded that the Tide Pump lacked sufficient merit. It needs further development to continue as a potential demonstration project.

Since then:

Acadiana Solar in Lafayette, Louisiana, joined the Tide Pump project and is helping to build the prototype using solar energy. Other businesses in
the Acadiana area are helping to raise money by allowing donation jars to be placed near their cash registers so customers can give a donation.

Including:

JONES GROCERY AND DELI    1845 LA-14, Lake Charles, LA 70601
(337) 436-2810  who is a faihful supporter of the Tide Pump project.

The United States Patent Office gave a patent on the Tide Pump.
View the Tide Pump at uspto.gov. Search Patent # 9759180

Money is still needed for engineering and development. If you would like
to join in on the effort to build the prototype, send a donation today.
Thank You for your support. Click  PayPal to donate.

This is how it can possibly be done:

The Tide Pump as illustrated in the how it works video can be manufactured with long lasting materials into a vertical box culvert type structure then shipped to the embankment area. The TV-16 Cheniere au Tigre and west Holly Beach shoreline demonstration projects use large rocks to perform their purpose, which is to protect the acreage of the interior brackish marshes by reducing the rate of beach erosion through the use of segmented breakwaters.

Using the box culvert structures instead of rocks to create the breakwater embankment, will produce energy that can then be used to help rebuild the wetlands and provide for its maintenance. Using the tide, wind, wave and solar energies to drive the pump will increase its value. The tide and wave mechanisms are basically housed in the culvert that protects them from the elements, but the wind turbine and solar panels are subject to storm damage and vandalism. Nevertheless, all 4 energies are concentrated into one force in the embankment.

Stacking the vertical box culverts side by side in the same order as the rocks will multiply the energy output. One way to use the energy is to drive air compressors, then distribute the air in piping along the embankment. The air can then drive pneumatic motors.  However, the video illustrates how the force can capture and distribute sediment in the wetlands without motors.

New designs can solve current problems, such as the current wind turbine blades that cause turbulence which kill bald eagles. A vertical shaft wind turbine set on top of the box culvert with a solar panel attached above, will be partly housed. It will still be able to capture low speed wind that drives a water lift. The solar panel drives a water pump without a converter and battery. The above description is only one application of others that are proposed.

The idea is to build land faster than it erodes, buy removing the sediment in the water and placing it back on the land with the Tide Pump. The captured sediment that is displaced by the pump will allow the rising waters of the ocean to flow into the displaced area, thus reducing the rise of the world’s oceans.


The 2012 Coastal Master Plan is going to build the TV-16 structures along the Louisiana coastline. If as little as 5 inch high waves are absorbed by the Tide Pump and converted into useful energy, how much energy is created if the structure is 100 miles long?  It makes sense to make the investment to do the study, and implement the system.

If this makes sense to you, and you would like to participate in the restoration of the wetlands, you can help bring the Tide Pump to market, by making a purchase online through this website, donating, or sending an email to Brad Inman at the US Army Corps of Engineers with Tide Pump as the subject;

Brad.L.Inman@usace.army.mil 

Tell him you would like to see the Tide Pump placed in the wetlands.

Thanks for your support.