Don't know if this has been posted but GO KEVIN!!!!

http://www.reuters.com/ar...619?rpc=60

BP deploys Costner's oil machine in Gulf cleanup

By Jeffrey Jones

Stocks | Global Markets

PORT FOURCHON La., June 18 (Reuters) - Hollywood star Kevin Costner joined BP (BP.L) (BP.N)'s efforts to clean up the oil-fouled Gulf of Mexico on Friday as the British company began deploying his "dream" machine to separate oil from water.

BP acquired 32 of the centrifuges to help remove some of the oil that has been gushing into the Gulf from its blown-out well in the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

The units are being deployed after BP tested them to see if they could handle the crude leaking from an undersea well for two months at an estimated rate of up to 60,000 barrels a day (2.5 million gallons/9.5 million liters).

"At its core, my dream, this machine, was designed ... to give us a fighting chance to fight back the oil that's got us by the throat," Costner told reporters.

"When you are in a fight, anybody knows you go to confront it right where it is. You don't wait for it to come to your door," the actor said at this oil industry supply port in southern Louisiana.

Moored behind him was a barge with his machines mounted on the deck that had returned to port to be fitted with a global positioning system to allow it to detect concentrations of oil.

Costner's company, Ocean Therapy Solutions, signed a contract with BP to provide 32 of the units that are expected to be working in the next 60 days, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said. Financial details were not disclosed.

Each machine, called a V20, can separate 210,000 gallons of oily water a day.

Costner, best-known for such films as "Dances with Wolves" and "Waterworld," stressed he was no overnight oil spill sensation. He has been trying to employ the technology designed by his company for the past 17 years, and has invested more than $20 million of his own money in its development.

Costner testified in the U.S. Congress last week about the need for a 21st century solution to the risks of drilling in waters as deep as one mile (1.6 km).

His proposals had been ignored and bureaucratic red tape hindered the introduction of new technology, he said.

Notice how his "proposals had been ignored and bureaucratic red tape hindered the introduction of new technology." Until NOW that is...assholes. Always after the fact/disaster.

noimageatall said:

Notice how his "proposals had been ignored and bureaucratic red tape hindered the introduction of new technology." Until NOW that is...assholes. Always after the fact/disaster.

My mother is like, the biggest Kevin Costner dork on Earth! She knows how I feel about environmental issues, too, since we've been discussing them for the last 25 years. As soon as talk of this started popping up on all the Kevin Costner sites (which she checks daily - sound familiar?) she started calling me, giving me updates. I'm glad he's getting a chance to try them out and I sincerely wish success. But damn I'm bummed out I'll have to hear more about it from Moms.

Cerebus said:

My mother is like, the biggest Kevin Costner dork on Earth! She knows how I feel about environmental issues, too, since we've been discussing them for the last 25 years. As soon as talk of this started popping up on all the Kevin Costner sites (which she checks daily - sound familiar?) she started calling me, giving me updates. I'm glad he's getting a chance to try them out and I sincerely wish success. But damn I'm bummed out I'll have to hear more about it from Moms.

Go Kevin Costner

I had the hots for him when I saw him in his movie "No Way Out" back in the day

Kevin Costner doing something good again, great even. It's been awhile.

that guy with the cork invention should throw his hat in the ring too...the sooner the clean-up the better!

now if the Omaba would put a stop to all the idiotic red tape hindering the clean up. Preventing some foreign boats from helping the clean up efforts. Stupidity like forcing crews from working due to "not enough life jackets" or "not enough fire extinguishers."

One thing I read was a process that pumped the oil drenched water out and skimmed and filtered out most but not all of the oil and then would put the mostly oil free water back into the gulf. But that was stopped by some EPA reg against putting oil contaminated water into the gulf.

This needs to be treated like a war! All options need to be used.

johnart said:

She called last night.

For Kevin...

For the numbnuts who blocked his efforts ,...

[Edited 6/19/10 13:18pm]

OnlyNDaUsa said:

now if the Omaba would put a stop to all the idiotic red tape hindering the clean up. Preventing some foreign boats from helping the clean up efforts. Stupidity like forcing crews from working due to "not enough life jackets" or "not enough fire extinguishers."

One thing I read was a process that pumped the oil drenched water out and skimmed and filtered out most but not all of the oil and then would put the mostly oil free water back into the gulf. But that was stopped by some EPA reg against putting oil contaminated water into the gulf.

This needs to be treated like a war! All options need to be used.

It is called the Jones Act. Stop getting all your info from Fox News.

This still doesn't make up for Robinhood Prince of Thieves!

TheVoid said:

This still doesn't make up for Robinhood Prince of Thieves!

my brother-in-law is manufacturing parts for this machine, apparently

TheVoid said:

This still doesn't make up for Robinhood Prince of Thieves!