Posted on 05/14/2010 10:13:46 PM PDT by Kirkwood
NEW ORLEANS -- A longtime Hollywood star is now in the Metro area and in the business of cleaning up oil.
Motivated by the Exxon-Valdez oil spill, Kevin Costner began assembling a team of scientists to construct a machine that could clean up massive spills. A decade and a half later, that technology might now be put to use off the coast of Louisiana.
A massive oil slick creeping to the coast, vulnerable Louisiana wildlife just miles from its path, and Kevin Costner mingling on the lakefront. These are unusual times, and the Hollywood star is introducing his unusual machine -- one designed to separate oil from water.
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Ok maybe you are correcto mundo, and I know nothing!
I can’t believe we’re actually agreeing on something, lol
Skimmers has been sucking up the oil-water mix and separating them since the second day.
could be
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Kevin Costner hopes his solution to the BP oil crisis will become a reality
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But for FR, I’d be laughing at this headline.
However, maybe even a decade ago (?), there was an article posted about
a tech company in California that Costner (at least partially) funded.
He may be a Hollywood type, but does seem to at least have interest
in tech/engineering.
Or at least making money off it.
Anyway, given BP’s brilliant success (/SARC) with crisis managment to this point,
even Costner and Co. might do a better job.
(and I’m not being unfair to BP...the engineering on Deepwater Horizon
is a very complex project)
his unusual machine -- one designed to separate oil from waterY'know, 'cause normally oil and water mix up really nicely. Next Costner project will have him starring as a space traveller marooned on an asteroid, with his only companion being a spherical space rock on which he's carved a face.
Finally we have found a subject on which we do not concur.
... Waterworld begins to pay off.
All he needs to do is tell the BP engineers and managers involved that until they fix this situation their families will be forced to watch that movie again and again.
I agree with you. This is something he and his brother, a scientist, have been working on for years. He’s invested a lot of money and I’d LOVE to see this work and for him to make a fortune..for all the reasons we can come up with.
dont reckon anyone is advocating “dumping hay” and hair in the gulf willy nilly. i think it’d be bundled and or controlled in some way then soaked up. wouldn’t be a good idea to just dump it tho
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