[libertarian27]

Costner has a company that produces machines that separate oil from water using a centrifuge system.

/p>Yeah, but does his company produce machines that separate Oil from Water from Corexit?/s

[gwilhelm56]

Maybe this is his apology for “Waterworld?”

[Riodacat]

Let’s wait to see how well his machines work before we bestow the Congressional Medal of Honor upon him.

[Sacajaweau]

Separate and purify is two very different things.

[dmet]

Assuming these machines will do the job, and i hope they do, what takes so long to put them in action?

I thought he had 32 ready to go. Time is everything here.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Wow, this turned into a cynical thread real quick.

At least Costner has something to offer that may help instead of just sitting at his keyboard and bitching.

Thanks for posting, I hope his invention helps and he makes a fortune from it.

[Mobties]

“Costner spent seventeen years and twenty million dollars of his own money developing the water purification machines”

Oh the marvels of private initiative and risking ones own capital! Had this been left to the government we'd be lucky to get two midnight basketball teams that didn't steal the equipment.

[khnyny]

Creativity, vision, entrepreneurship - you know - what America used to be all about... Now I know why I dreamt of Waterworld a couple of times months ago, lol...

[Cyber Liberty]

Costner put $20M of his own money where his mouth is. I hope his gadgets work, but I have a lot of respect for him whether they do or not. I don’t even care if he’s a liberal. I hope he makes a fortune with these machines.

[Brugmansian]

A Hollywood nitwit can't sell his machines but is connected enough to force BP to buy them to put on small fishing vessels which are being used as skimmers. Some hero.

Meanwhile, a ship owner in Taiwan coverts a supertanker the size of an aircraft carrier into a skimmer and his ship is tied up in Norfork awaiting the Coast Guard, the EPA and Obama to give the OK to use it. The media barely reports on it too (I've yet to see this ship mentioned on TV)

Giant Oil Skimmer makes stop in Norfork

[Ronin]

Well I'll be damned...

A man willing to put his money where his mouth his.

Way to go, Costner!

[Cheetahcat]

Let’s see what happens in real world use before condemning or praising him, 20 Mill of his own money OK!

[Vinnie_Vidi_Vici]

Costner’s device is basically a Cream separator, albeit a rather large one. No real new technology here.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

At the start of the crisis, it was reported that Costner’s brother was a scientist who invented these machines, and Kevin put up his own money as financing. Hope these contraptions work.