Does Kevin Costner of All People Have The Answer to this Mess?

[LoungeMachine]

http://www.global-adventures.us/2010/05/24/oil-spill-cleanup-solution/

Oil spill: Costner has cleanup solution0
Los Angeles (Global Adventures): Machines that suck up polluted water, centrifuge the mess, keep the pollutants, and release clean water back into the ocean are not borrowed from a science fiction flick, they are reality and come from a company called "Ocean Therapy Solutions." Thanks to Kevin Costner, 6 units will be deployed in a first test to help with the Deep-Water Horizon cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico.

While the machines cannot close the leak on the ocean floor, they can help to clean up the polluted water. Like a giant vacuum cleaner, polluted water is sucked into the units. After centrifuging the mix, clean water and oily suds remain. The largest machines can clean up to 200 gallons per minute, some reports say. This would enable a single centrifuge to extract up to 2,000 barrels of oil per day.

After watching a demonstration, BP agreed to use 6 units in a first test phase and try to clean up the mess in Gulf. Costner says that Ocean Therapy Solutions has a total of 300 centrifuges of various sizes. The 55 year old actor came up with the idea after the 1989 Exxon Valdez accident. He provided $26 million to fund research and development since, several reports say.

26 units are ready to be deployed, Costner's business partner and legal counsel John Houghtaling says. The machines could be a valuable tool if they meet regulations with regard to discharge, BP said. However, hopes for a quick relief may remain science fiction. BP now says that it could take until August to finally plug the leak. Roughly 6 million gallons of oil have already escaped into the Gulf of Mexico. They are now starting to show up on the fragile Louisiana coast line, threatening swamps, birds, and mammals.

BP says that it will commit $ 500 million over the next 10 years to study the effects the oil spill has on the environment. So far, about 65 miles of coastline in Louisiana have been affected, according to Governor Bobby Jindal.

A video on YouTube shows actor Kevin Costner introducing the “vacuum cleaners” to the media and a life demonstration of the machines.

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[FORD]

Costner's device seems like a scientifically plausible approach. Probably the biggest question here is how long it would take to manufacture enough of them to handle this huge volume of oil.

And of course, it still only deals with the effects of the problem, not the cause. Doesn't seem logical to go to such a huge cleanup effort until the fucking hole is plugged up. Preferably with the corpses of oil executives.

[Jagermeister]

Now that's the shit right there. Now why didn't someone think of that a month ago?

[Catfish]

Just another Hollywood asshole who thinks he's smarter than everyone else--including scientists. Fuck him.

[Nitro Express]

Costner's device seems like a scientifically plausible approach. Probably the biggest question here is how long it would take to manufacture enough of them to handle this huge volume of oil.

And of course, it still only deals with the effects of the problem, not the cause. Doesn't seem logical to go to such a huge cleanup effort until the fucking hole is plugged up. Preferably with the corpses of oil executives.

I like your way of thinking. Let's not forget the politicians who were bought off to relax the regulations and the regulators who turned a blind eye.

[Nitro Express]

It's basically the same process they use to make non alcoholic beer. Any liquids that have different densities can be separated by spinning them at high RPM. They separate the alcohol from water in breweries this was and bottle the result as Odoule's or Coors Cutter for example. Since oil is lighter than dihydrogen oxide, spinning can separate them as well. Just ram a butt plug into the hole and spin the Gulf of Mexico using voodoo magic and collect the oil using giant tampons.

[Nitro Express]

Just another Hollywood asshole who thinks he's smarter than everyone else--including scientists. Fuck him.

A Hollywood asshole who has dumped tens of millions into a product that hasn't had a market until now. Costner wants to sell the damn things. He's basically trying to clean up Katrina with a Sears wet/dry vacuum. He might sell a few of them but he's trying to bail the ocean out with a thimble.

[LoungeMachine]

Just another Hollywood asshole who thinks he's smarter than everyone else--including scientists. Fuck him.

Excellent rebuttle.

As opposed to your hard work, ideas, and money dedicated to a solution?

[Catfish]

Excellent rebuttle.

As opposed to your hard work, ideas, and money dedicated to a solution?

I have no ideas, money, or will to work hard.

And all the money he has is because dopes like me paid to see movies of his like '3,000 Miles to Graceland'!

[LoungeMachine]

I have no ideas, money, or will to work hard.

And all the money he has is because dopes like me paid to see movies of his like '3,000 Miles to Graceland'!

Exactly.

And I liked Tin Cup too..... $7 well spent.



Frankly I dont care WHO or WHICH ASSHOLE, Hollywood or otherwise helps to fix Halliburton's mess down there....

Just do it.

[PETE'S BROTHER]

I have no ideas, money, or will to work hard.

And all the money he has is because dopes like me paid to see movies of his like '3,000 Miles to Graceland'!

have you met blackflag? i'm assuming you have.

[hambon4lif]

He's basically trying to clean up Katrina with a Sears wet/dry vacuum. He might sell a few of them but he's trying to bail the ocean out with a thimble.

True, but it's worth a shot. At least it's an attempt at a solution. Besides, it's been 3 goddamn weeks, and obviously no one has any better ideas.
His idea can only be stupid if there's a more intelligent idea to compare it too, and they haven't come up with jack shit!

I found this interesting.....
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[Nitro Express]

We fix Halliburton's mess by encasing Dick Chenney in concrete and dumping his fat ass on the leak.

[LoungeMachine]

True, but it's worth a shot. At least it's an attempt at a solution. Besides, it's been 3 goddamn weeks, and obviously no one has any better ideas.
His idea can only be stupid if there's a more intelligent idea to compare it too, and they haven't come up with jack shit!

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Fucking exactly.

Somebody somewhere do something somehow someway.......

fuck.



If this had been a "terraist" attachk on the platform instead of cheap-ass Halliburton's work, we'd be mobilizing the National Guard, NORAD, NASA, and God knows what else in the name of HOMELAND SECURITY.

[Catfish]

Exactly.

And I liked Tin Cup too..... $7 well spent.

Hell of a movie!

Frankly I dont care WHO or WHICH ASSHOLE, Hollywood or otherwise helps to fix Halliburton's mess down there....

Just do it.

Well, Obama took a full week to even address there was a spill, so, yeah, bring on Robin Hood to save the day!