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Protei, Oil Spill Collecting Sailing Drones @ TEDxMidAtlantic

November 10, 2010

A few days ago, I was lucky to be on stage of TEDxMidAtlantic to present Protei, a technology in development I am working on with a bunch of brilliant people (Open_Sailing, randomwalks and V2_ folks). 
Protei would be a Fleet of Oil Spill Collecting Sailing Drones. I just made this 7 minutes video that explains how it would work (also on youtube if you want to share / embed / rate). I am now working on the collaborative website and the documentation to meet Open Hardware standards - long way to go :) The video of the talk may come up sometimes, meanwhile you have my explanation here :) Sorry for my terrible french accent, hehehe

We are currently looking for ways to fund this project, if you have ideas of grants, competitions, Institutions or companies that would be interested in working on this, please comment, thanks ! 

Filed under  //   Animation   BP oil spill   Cesar Harada   Gulf of Mexico   Open Hardware   Open_Sailing   Pollution   Protei   Robot   TEDxMidAtlantic   TEDxOilSpill   Talk   Washington DC   open innovation   sailing  
Posted by Cesar Harada 

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Everything you wanted to know about BP but were afraid to ask...

June 15, 2010

An article in The Guardian by Andrew Simms has far too many great quotes. I was going to plagiarize the best and show them off as my own. But then...

Let the man speak for himself. For now here's one of my favourites:

"Everywhere in this story, there is the whiff of the end of empire. But the last to acknowledge it are often those on the inside looking out."

For the rest read this piece for some seriously good background on British Petroleum aka Anglo Iranian Oil Company.


oil spill

A boat glides through the heavy sheen of oil as it skims near the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Photograph: Dave Martin/AP

 

Taghi Amirani

TED Senior Fellow

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Filed under  //   Anglo Iranian Oil Company   BP   British Petroleum   Gulf of Mexico   Oil Spill  
Posted by Taghi Amirani 

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