Kevin Costner Donates Invention to Clean Up BP Oil Spill
Actor Kevin Costner has spent many years and many millions of dollars inventing and perfecting a device that cleans oil from seawater. Desperate for ideas, British Petroleum has given the okay to test out six of Costner's devices this week.
Costner's high-speed centrifuge machine is called "Ocean Therapy." Here's how it works: it is placed on a barge and sucks in large quantities of polluted water, separates out the oil and spits back out 97% clean water. Costner's business partner, lawyer John Houghtaling, describes it as being "like a big vacuum cleaner."
Costner first assembled a team to create the device in the aftermath of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. His brother, Dan Costner, is a scientist and helped to create the device. Together, the Costner brothers formed Costner Industries Nevada Corp. to pursue various energy projects.
Over time, Costner has put in $26 million into the Ocean Therapy project. He got a license for the device in 1993 from the Department of Energy, and has for years been trying to promote it.
Last week Costner demonstrated the device in Louisiana, and desperate for some help in cleaning up the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP decided to give his invention a shot.
At least 210,000 gallons of oil per day is spilling into the sea from the ocean floor where a BP rig exploded on April 20. While BP has tried several ideas, none have worked to plug the leak. Currently they are skimming the oil, spraying it with dispersant chemicals underwater, and are trying to burn it on the surface.
Should BP like the results of their test run with six of Costner's machines, there are plenty more for them to perhaps purchase. Costner has 300 of the Ocean Therapy machines in various sizes. The largest one weighs 2 1/2 tons and can clean water at a rate of 200 gallons per minute.
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start using them...replaces the fishing industry...
ralph solonitz
start using them...replaces the fishing industry...
ralph solonitz
Mr. Costner has what appears will help and so they need to be commissioned to start immediately. This is a crisis and even the president indicated he will utilize all methods of solving this problem. So what are we waiting for? BP needs to hire him, pay him up front a larege retainer and pay him a fee for the amount of oil capture results. PERIOD!
Why can't I get an update on how BP's "test" went??? WE NEED TO BOYCOTT BP until they SUBSIDIZE about 100x more machines that Costner has. PEOPLE DO THE RESEARCH. The *5* undersea leaks are billowing out a good 1,000,000 BARRELS a day. PEOPLE IN FLORIDA ARE ALREADY GETTING OILY RAIN. Ask your representative to increase the amount we can sue BP and LET'S PUT THESE CROOKS IN PRISON FOR DESTROYING OUR PLANET THROUGH THEIR UTTER RECKLESSNESS AND CORRUPTION!
On may 20 it was reported that BP was going to "test" these machines. WHAT IS THE STATUS? I've been looking all over the net for more info. Do they work, or what? And if they haven't tested them yet, WHAT'S THE HOLDUP?
Over 210,000 gallons of oil is leaking out per day, and the machine can clean 200 gallons of water per minute. 60x24x200 is 288,000 gallons of water per day. With six equal machines it might just clean maybe a fraction of the oil that's leaking out...
Come on, BP, you need all of his machines, and more...
I'm from So. Louisiana and BP sent a team of representatives to our communnity to answer questions about this disaster. I asked several questions and their repeated response was that all of that information was on their internet site. I specifically asked about this devise and they weren't even aware of it. I also asked if they knew how much of the spilled oil had been recovered. They also couldn't answer that and referred me to their website. I've searched that ite(deepwaterhorizonresponse.com) and could not find any answer to these questions. I'm continually amazed how clueless BP's people are! There are so many questions that the public would like answers to, and they don't seem to have ANY!
Costner's device sounds very similar to a cream seperator that we used on the farm years ago when I was a boy. Whole milk was poured in the top and it drained down onto a centrifuge of some type and skim milk came out one spout and heavy cream came out the other. It actually worked very well. It would take a lot of the devices to clean up such a massive spill, but it's the best idea I've heard yet. Go Kevin!
BP is such a joke… they should all be arrested along with the US govt. How long ago did they cap the leak? And how many legitimate claims are still “pending” from damages they suffered back in the beginning of the summer? I happen to know three people that were affected directly by BP’s shady PR tactics and manipulation of our laws, one of whom was a journalist who was almost arrested and charged with felonies for taking pictures of oil covered animals near the coast. Not only is it bad enough that thousands of fishers’ lively hoods are ruined for god knows how many years to come, they were paid a pathetic amount of money to clean up BP’s own mess. To add even more insult to injury, BP used Corexit 9527, which contains mainly 2-butoxyethanol, which is very toxic. You wouldn’t have to be a scientist to know that, since in the first week of using it over 70 fisherman ended up at the hospital. Of course if you even inquired about this, I’m sure the govt (which is pretty much owned by oil companies) would deal with you quite quickly, let alone taking pictures of it in an attempt to run a story on it. If you didn’t know already, the govt is doing what they do best… crapping on the 1st amendment: naturalnews.com/029130_Gulf_of_Mexico_censorship.html. My friend who almost got arrested on felony charges simply went out on a boat into about 30 feet of water and used a water proof cam to photograph one of the many oil plumes forming at the bottom of the surface (which BP vehemently denies). Now here comes the hilarious part. He switched the film in his camera with a blank one in the event they were stopped by police, which they were as soon as they got back to shore. They let him go but still took his name down, and what do you know... later that night, 2 guys wearing black hoodies attempted to break into his house. He caught pics of them on his home security system (he saved the pics… adt home security systems break in photos). Hmm, I wonder who paid these guys to break in and what they were after? Definitely not BP or our govt, that’s for sure!
Hm, was it his personal invention?? was it any help? how did he invent it I wonder made out of a hip of miele spares lying around at home? :)