Oil Clean-Up Machines

[StackerKen]

Hollywood actor Kevin Costner has invested $24 million of his own money over the last decade funding a new technology that would clean up seawater after an oil spill. Now BP has agreed to employ 6 of the machines to test their effectiveness in the Gulf of Mexico.

Costner's company, Ocean Therapy Solutions, run by his brother, has built 300 machines in various sizes, with the largest able to clean water at a rate of 200 gallons per minute, more than the amount of oil BP estimates is gushing currently.

The machine can be transported by barge and is essentially a vacuum cleaner with a high-speed centrifuge device doing the separating. Company research says the oil extractor leaves the water 99 percent free of crude while diverting oil that is reusable.

If BP testing confirms what the company claims, 20 more machines will be cleaning the Gulf beginning next week.

WATCH the video below, or read the full story at ABC News...

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/most-popular/general/costner-helps-bp-spill.html

[ximmy]

Amazing... American ingenuity alive and well...

At a press conference Wednesday in Louisiana, the 55-year-old actor explained how he purchased the new technology from the government and invested $24 million in its private-sector development.

An avid outdoorsman and fishing enthusiast, Costner said it was the damage done in the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound that prompted him to act.

Costner, a skilled equestrian, raises horses on a California ranch he and his wife own. He also golfs, hunts and fishes. He once worked as a deep-sea fisherman before he made his name as an actor.

He is among several A-list actors who have publicly championed environmental causes in recent years.

[cigarlover]

I hope it works. I would love to see that mess cleaned up quickly.

[StackerKen]

I hope it works too.
And I hope they use it....

Im not sure "They" want to fix this

[mick silver]

he has been a leader in the green movment for years ... they will buy it just to get him off there backs . i too wish and hope it works . but i see them making him go away