Kevin Costner oil spill cleanup idea interests BP

[imurhuckleberry]

Kevin Costner is joining the ranks of scientists, engineers, and lawmakers in an international effort to figure out how to contain and clean up oil streaming into the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of 210,000 gallons a day.

Mr. Costner appeared in New Orleans last week to demonstrate a $24 million oil extraction device he is pitching to BP and Coast Guard officials. Costner says the device will clean oil from the water at a rate of 97 percent. BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said Wednesday that his team will test the device next week.

Costner’s involvement in helping solve oil spill crises is not new. The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster in Alaska motivated the actor to help fund a consortium of scientists to develop technology that mitigates oil-infected water before it hits the coast. The technology is ready to combat the BP spill, he told reporters last week.

“It's not anymore about talk," Costner told WWL-TV in New Orleans. “It's about doing the walk, and that phrase was probably invented down here.”

Costner’s company, Ocean Therapy Solutions, provides multiple machines designed to address spills of different sizes. The largest can clean as many as 200 gallons per minute, Costner said. The company reports it has 20 such machines ready to be employed.

“The machines are basically sophisticated centrifuge devices that can handle a huge volume of water and separate at unprecedented rates,” Ocean Therapy Solutions CEO John Houghtaling said last week.

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[phleshdef]

1. If this works, I don't want to hear anymore bitching about "liberal hollywood activists"

[TK421]

2. YES!! wish I could rec that one!

[11 Bravo]

7. Fuckin' A, Bubba!

[NYC_SKP]

3. Makes sense, he should know. Own's "Ocean Therapy Solutions", that and...

Here's a youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx5XgUYDQ3k

:patriot:

[El Supremo]

4. Here it is!

[drm604]

5. I'll believe it when I see it.

It sounds a little far-fetched to me. How is it going to clean oil from water thousands of feet down?

[Javaman]

6. Why does this seem really fishy...

first it's reported that cosner is out there helping clean up.

then a day or two goes by.

Then we hear that he has this great idea to fix things.

It just so happens it's his business that will do the fixing.

then we hear bp is open to the idea.

Now, I can wear a tinfoil hat as well as anyone, but to me this whole thing rings of quid pro quo.

He makes money, bp gets a famous star as a spokemen.

The devil is in the details. If this was such a fucking brilliant idea, why hasn't it been used on the countless spills that take place in the gulf every single year?

Why did mr. cosner wait a whole freaking month?

from the article

"Costner’s involvement in helping solve oil spill crises is not new. The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster in Alaska motivated the actor to help fund a consortium of scientists to develop technology that mitigates oil-infected water before it hits the coast. The technology is ready to combat the BP spill, he told reporters last week.

(only 4% of the total spilled in the exxon valdez has been cleaned up)

I'm not sold on this idea, but if bp is footing the bill and not us, they can go crazy.

something about this just doesn't feel right.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. Sounds like PR.

Both BPs and Costners.

[rudy23]

9. Costner: Obama's Sean Penn

Seriously, how many times does our federal government have to get shown up by A FUCKING ACTOR before we start to take disaster management seriously in this country?

[marions ghost]

10. It better be the mother of all inventions...

"Ocean Therapy Solutions, provides multiple machines designed to address spills of different sizes." And WHERE is this employed? On ships, on beaches, fishing boats?

Let's see, 200 g per minute X 20 machines to deal with _________gals per day coming from the pipe...with ________percentage going ashore... :argh: Somebody do the math?

Kevin's gonna have a job keeping ahead of THIS spill! BP should have put him on it RIGHT AWAY!:tinfoilhat:

[FLPanhandle]

11. Costner I hope this works; it'll make up for all those horrible movies of yours I watched.

You owe me!

Seriously though, it's an example of how a little investment money goes a long way. The government should be embarrassed they didn't fund this type of research.

[1955doubledie]

12. K&R

:kick:

[chemenger]

13. Still ... 1 g of prevention will always be worth more than several thousand g(s) cure

For those unscientifically-minded ... 1 g = 32.174 feet per second squared (the acceleration of the earth's gravitational field. A centrifuge multiplys this by several thousands. Since oil is lighter than water a centrifuge effects the separation of oil from water by several thousandfold).