The Oil Eater

Ronan

Age 9 | Calgary, AB

This is a project submitted to Little Inventors, an educational organization inspiring young thinkers to imagine inventions and to become caring citizens of the planet.
Click here to see this project on the Little Inventors website.

What is the purpose of your invention?
The purpose is to use it to get rid of oil in the ocean.

How does your invention work?
It eats up oil, pulls it in the ship, and once full it opens a portal to send the oil somewhere safe.

What are the main components/features of your invention?
- Sails
- Radar dishes
- Grates on the parts to suck up oil so fish can’t get in
- The portal (of course)

What does your invention look like?

What are the main problems that inspired your invention?
- Too much oil in the ocean
- Oil makes fish sick

Why are these problems important to you?
I don’t want fish to become sick because we eat a lot of fish, and I want to have clean water.

What should other people do every day to help keep the oceans clean?
RECYCLE!

ABOUT THE INVENTOR

Hello, my name is Ronan. I am 9 years old. I live in Calgary near rivers and lakes. I want the ocean to be clean so that I can visit it and maybe see some whales. I love to play video games. My favourite is DOOM ETERNAL. My brother is 7 years old, and his favourite video game is Minecraft.