BP OK's Costner's oil-cleaning device

Source: WWLTV.com News

NEW ORLEANS ― Kevin Costner's oil cleaning device is in the wilderness no more.

BP approved Costner’s Ocean Therapy device to help the company attempt to clean up the Gulf of Mexico after its Deepwater Horizon drill rig exploded, sank and began gushing copious amounts of oil into the water.

The machine, described as a centrifugal processing device that separates oil from water, was developed by a consortium of scientists hired by Costner following the Exxon-Valdez oil spill in 1989.

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According to Costner and Houghtaling’s company, one machine can clean up to 210,000 gallons of water per day. The company also says the oil can be separated and stored into tanks, leaving the water clean.


Read more: http://www.wwltv.com/news/BP-OKs-Costners-oil-cleaning-device-94189959.html

sounds suspiciously like a cyclone...

...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifuge">Centrifuge

K&R

because they can't shut him up as easily as others..

Home run for Costner, I hope.

Interesting story -- and where has the machinery been the last month??

Why has this been a secret -- ?? The oil industry, itself, didn't know about it?

I'll hit the link --



“Costner has been funding a team of scientists for the last 15 years to develop a technology which could be used for massive oil spills.”


Oil industry could have done this -- they didn't --

Our government could have done this -- they didn't --

Saved at the last moment -- I certainly hope so!!


And then there would still be that hole to close up --

Hope Costner is working on that, as well!!

When you put in a proposal to management every year to develop an oil/water phase separation device and get shot down every year because it is "a good idea, but we have limited IR&D funds this year", soon you learn not to be the tallest blade of grass. All big companies with an R&D staff have people that can work on these types of problems, but very few of the people that can work on these problems have patrons like Kevin Costner. Remember, those research dollars come from the same part of overhead that pays the management bonuses.

I will bet though, that proposals for handling all facets of an oil spill will do a LOT better in the next grant cycle.

Fortunately, Kevin Costner actually did it!!

Thanks for the info!

Olbermann reported on it tonight --

and think there have been prior reports on it???

Also, a rig collapsed, May 1st, near Morgan City, LA..
NO reporting on that either.

I need to chill the heck out..some sleep..
but I'll be following up on these
& raising e-hell tomorrow. :(

He's one who is going to save the Gulf of Mexico! Yay!!!

I am glad his machine is going to be used after all.

p.s. he's my favorite actor.

Kudos to Kevin Costner for this one and a hearty thank you to him. This is great news. :)

How could it possibly be, in freakin' WATERWORLD, living on a HARBOR, the little girl somehow does NOT know how to swim?

My mom, raised in Cape Breton, about 400 feet from the ocean, her dad a fisherman and a farmer, can't swim, either. I found out recently why (my uncle told me this story):

When she was on summer vacation one year, she and her sister Kay went to work for the fishing cannery. At one time, she fell into the water between the wharf and a boat, and almost drowned. They had to get into the water to drag her up. So I suspect in my mom's case, it was from fear.

In WW, I'm sure there is a general distrust of the ocean, regardless of their dependency on it. Even in a world mostly of water, humans still need air to breathe, and even now, there are many who can't swim or trust water. My friend has a distrust of it now--he can't swim, and no matter how much I bring up activities which are water related, he won't do them. I want a home right next to the ocean, he'd rather have a mountain cabin.

We use centrifuges to squeeze water out of oil for the turbines all the time!

The problem is the Best Polluters don't want to spend the money to pay for them period!

I would think those in the oil business would love nothing more than a good way to reclaim their spilled oil. Yes water separators have been around for decades on a small scale. Fishermen use Racor filter systems on their engines which do exactly this very thing. Spin the water away from the fuel and trap it in a sediment bulb. I would think this would have been a great investment for Big Oil since they tend to have quite a few oil spills and this would be a great way for them to both, reclaim their oil, and be the good guys for cleaning up their mess.

You are going for clean oil, not clean water. The end result of the process you use is clean oil and dirty waste water.

BP has probably been much more interested in getting water out of oil than getting oil out of water.

Great stuff, man.

It was truly awful. I saw it in London and the IRA could have hit the theatre with a bomb and no one would have noticed the loss of life. They would have noticed the loss of a theatre but not until the picture had ended it's run.

He has no business doing accents - attempted Boston accent in Thirteen Days springs to mind as well.

Glad to know someone is investing in disaster clean up cuz big oil certainly in not.

:evilgrin:

Of course this was almost 20 years ago, so the youngsters can be excused for not remembering this stinker of a film. ;)

Major kudos to Costner for having the foresight to invest in the development of a product like this and to bring it to the forefront of the spill.

...being cleaned up by Supertankers that went into the spill, sucked up the oily water, then separated out the oil and stored it in the tankers. I imagine that they probably used a very similar system to this.

Why the hell aren't we doing something comparable? :grr:

The Dutch offered their oil skimmers but your government decided to
use an EPA rule about the degree of cleanliness of output water to
ban them from operating. I suspect it was more of a NIH syndrome.

Don't know about you but I think that most creatures in & around the
Gulf would have preferred something that removes the majority of
the shit on Day 1 rather than wait around indefinitely in the hope that
a "100% solution" *might* appear ...

:shrug:

sigh.