Posted by Tina
Three cheers for the very red white and blue Kevin Costner who rolled up his sleeves, invested his own money, and hunkered down with scientists to address oil spill problems! Read about the big centrifuge fellow patriots…we do still live in the good ol’ USA:
“BP approves use of Kevin Costner’s water cleaning device” – Houston Chronicle
Actor Kevin Costner is now in the oil spill cleaning business. ** According to Louisiana station WWLTV, the actor’s Ocean Therapy device, a machine that separates oil from water at a fast rate, got the nod from BP to help clean up the spill in the Gulf of Mexico. ** BP watched the machine at work this past Thursday, taking it for a test-run before saying yes or no to the group. ** Following the 1989 Exxon-Valdez spill, Kevin Costner funded a team led by his scientist brother to come up with a technology that can be used to clean up massive oil spills. The device is a centrifugal processing device that can handle large volumes of water, WWLTV said. ** 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. ** Costner and his brother are said to have invested $15 million in the centrifuge.
God bless the Costner brothers, the entrepreneurial approach to problem solving, and God bless the USA!