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ABOUT MY WORK ON DEEP SEA OIL LEAKS
*  At NETL’s High Pressure Water Tunnel *
* At the OHMSETT Facility inside Naval Weapons Station Earle *
*   At UC Berkeley with Professor Ömer Savaş and Dr. Eric “Aquaman” Ibarra *

MY LARGE-SCALE EXPERIMENTS WITH JP5 JET FUEL
INSIDE NAVAL WEAPONS STATION EARLE
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United States Navy War Ships being loaded with conventional and nuclear weapons
at the Trident pier of Naval Weapons Station Earle

The main reason that the Deepwater Horizon oil leak continued for 87 days was the absence of a proven tool to measure the leak rate.   In 2013 I submitted a proposal to an open, public, competitive Call for Proposal by the DOI Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE).   My proposal “ Development of a ROV Deployed Video Analysis Tool for Rapid Measurement of Submerged Oil/Gas Leaks ” would create that tool.   I would work with Professor Ömer Savaş of UC Berkeley in his Fluid Dynamics lab for small-scale testing; at the  Berkeley Ship Research Tow Tank for medium-scale testing; and finally at the OHMSETT Facility inside Naval Weapons Station Earle for full-scale testing.

DOI BSEE selected my proposal and gave me $728,000 in funding.   The NETL added about $1 million dollars in funding.

At the OHMSETT facility inside Naval Weapons Station Earle, the highest flow rate of JP5 jet fuel at NWS Earle was 28,000 barrels per day.   That flow rate of jet fuel would keep fifteen fully loaded 747 jets flying 30,000 feet above the ground.

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Click the image below to watch video of JP5 jet fuel being injected into sea water at OHMSETT NWS Earle at a flow rate of 28,000 barrels per day.

OHMSETT Facility

For the experiments with JP5 Jet Fuel, I was the Principal Investigator leading a team of about 15 engineers.   JP5 Jet Fuel is similar to kerosene.   It burns slowly and at a temperature high enough to melt steel beams.

It is not very explosive, but the vapors will explode under the right conditions.   So we had to wait for a clear day with no chance of lightning.   NWS Earle has their own weather station.

On a clear day from Naval Weapons Station Earle, you can see Manhattan – without the World Trade Center buildings.   All 15 of us were silent, except when absolutely necessary to speak.  

We all knew that JP5 Jet Fuel is what melted the steel beams in World Trade Centers.   We all knew that the people jumping out of windows on the 100 th floor we knowingly jumping to their death to escape the intense heat of JP5 Jet Fuel.

MY FIRST TIME AT THE SECURITY ENTRANCE TO NWS EARLE

The first time I arrived at NWS Earle, Dr. Igor Haljassma was with me.   He was born, raised and earned his first engineering degrees in Russian controlled Estonia. (His PhD is from the University of Pittsburgh).   Igor speaks fluent Russian.   We’d submitted our paperwork for background checks a few weeks prior.   No problems.

When we arrived at the entrance to NWS Earle, Igor was on the phone with his wife loudly rambling on in Russian.  

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Dr. Igor Haljassma

The entrance to NWS Earle is a large building you drive into where you are stopped by Naval Guards in body armor with sidearms and short automatic rifles across their chests.   They check your ID and paperwork, then send you to a room with no windows while they search your car.

I’d forgotten to inform them that I would arrive with an engineer who was born, raised and educated in Russia.   I’d also forgotten to mention that we’d arrive in a van packed full of scientific camera equipment. I’d forgotten to list the scientific camera equipment on the ACCESS REQUEST FORM

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When the Navy Guards saw my scientific camera equipment, the normally serious look on their faces became dead serious.   They took me into a room with no windows and with what appeared to be polygraph equipment on the table.  

They ordered me not to point my cameras at the rail cars traveling down the Trident pier to load US Navy warships.   They informed me that my camera equipment could be confiscated at any time, and they did not know if it would be returned to me.   I had high-speed camera equipment with me that could read a license plate from a mile away.   The high-speed cameras cost ~$1.5 million dollars.

They informed me that I could be ordered to take a polygraph exam.   I would not be told why.   I would not be told the results.   If I was found to be untruthful, I could be jailed in the base brig. I would not be told why.   They informed me that a Navy JAG would eventually see me, but they were rather busy right now so I could be in the brig for a few days.

I was hoping they would have an FBI polygraph examiner question me under oath, so I could brag to everyone about it!

In January of 2021, two FBI Agents stopped by my dump apartment in Newark, OH, to tell me not to say another word about the proliferation of nuclear weapons technologies from Los Alamos into Pakistan. One of the Agents was Lisa Brown, Violent Crimes Task Force, Special Investigative Unit .   I asked her to have an FBI Polygraph Examiner question me under oath about the state secrets I was keeping, including the proliferation of nuclear weapons technologies from Los Alamos into Pakistan.  

Last I heard from Agent Brown was in 2021.
She told me she was “working on it.”

Would someone please ask her to work a little faster!   I’ve been waiting now for four years.   I am an hour’s drive from the nearest FBI Field Office.  
Just tell me when to show up for the polygraph exam.

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