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Title: Costner's 'dream' machines debut
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MSNBC
URL Source: http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/_ne ... -costners-dream-machines-debut
Published: Jun 20, 2010
Author: staff
Post Date: 2010-06-20 11:20:15 by buckeroo
Keywords: None
Views: 813
Comments: 79
News agencies reported on the actor's premiere staged at the docks in the oil industry supply port of Port Fourchon in southern Louisiana as BP began deploying 32 of his "dream" machines to separate oil from water. Costner's backdrop was an oil-finding barge with his machines mounted on the deck. "At its core, my dream, this machine, was designed ... to give us a fighting chance to fight back the oil that's got us by the throat," Costner told reporters. "When you are in a fight, anybody knows you go to confront it right where it is. You don't wait for it to come to your door," the actor said. Costner's company, Ocean Therapy Solutions, signed a contract with BP to provide 32 units expected to work in the next 60 days. BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles would not disclose financial details. Costner said each machine, called a V20, can separate 210,000 gallons of oily water a day. Costner, best-known for such films as "Dances with Wolves" and "Waterworld," stressed he was no overnight oil spill sensation. He has been trying to employ the technology designed by his company for the past 17 years, and has invested more than $20 million of his own money in its development. The technology was developed two decades ago by a researcher at the Idaho National Laboratory by scientist David Meikrantz, who initially sought to use the machines to separate the components of nuclear substances. In 1993, INL licensed the technology to Ocean Therapy Solutions, a company owned by Costner. Poster Comment: There is hope, yet folks.
Hollywood star Kevin Costner debuted Friday in his supporting role as a Gulf oil-spill fighter.
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#1. To: christine, turtle, all (#0)
One more solution is on the way for the spill.
To paraphrase Wilford Brimley's character in the movie Absence of Malice: "A spill? Last time there was a "spill" like this, Noah had to build hisself an ark."
Oil Vey, surf's up.
Don't you feel much better now that we have professional actors on this DOOMS_DAY scenario? I wager Original_Intent is already having a nap; confident in knowing that peace, security and tranquility beyond the restoration of the Gulf is already in process. He may have dozed off from his next unsolicited, web authorship piece. HEY O_I ... hows that hammock?
He did do the movie, 'Water World;' what more credibility references do you want? Actually, seeing how he did a baseball movie he would serve mankind better if he came up with a solution to rid the world of the NY Yankees. But hey, I'm a Boston Red Sox fan; so take that opinion with a huge grain of sea salt.
Those could be the "GOOD_OLD_DAYS" now. According to Original_Intent, we are looking at the end of the world, now. O_I, often suggests that only prayer remains to save us. Maybe these are the days of the apocalypse as others suggest? And 2012? Where is Rasputin and Edgar Cayce in all of this?
Well, George Carlin used to blast us enviros as egotistical 'The sky is falling' types contending that the world and nature is more resilient then we think. As a whale and dolphin activist I bet you can imagine why this spill has enraged and stressed me greatly. But I try to remember that only by listening to the other side of an issue can I best temper any perspective on anything happening in the world. Carlin was wise, and nature and the world are more resilient and forgiving then people like me often give it credit for, but I worry we are pushing the envelope into doom and disaster beyond any degree we have ever seem. He's a toast for January one, Twenty Thirteen; may we all be here alive to raise our collective glasses as the ball falls at Times Square to herald it's start.
While I agree the planet is resilient and has its own built in self correcting systems if you knock a system far enough out of equilibrium you get unpredictable results - it is likely to gyrate through a range of states and at this point none of them are pretty. The level of enviromental damage this spill is already doing, combined with the estimates that it could run for another 2 to 4 years, presents a set of unpalatable prospects. The Gulf IS going to be a dead zone for the foreseeable future - a minimum of ten years and more likely 30 to 50 before it ceases to be an issue. The human toll is incalculable at this point, but along with the death of the Gulf Fishery, will go the tourist trade, and a way of life that has endured effectively since before the American Revolution. Cajun Country is going to become dead country, and the affects of the toxic gas releases, along with the toxic and mutagenic properties of the Corexit 9527 oil dispersant (used unconscionably by Bee Pee to camouflage the scale of the oil release), is going to result in an increased rate of cancers and shortened life spans for anyone in the affected zone. I don't think people are yet coming to grips with what the fiendish and horrific results of this release will be. The Nooze Media is running full scale PsyOps and the corrupt government under Commissar Soetoro conniving with Bee Pee to keep the public unaware means the full impact is not yet in the public consciousness. There is no comparable event in recorded history. This society, and its culture, will be profoundly changed by this "event", and in ways that are difficult to foresee in their entirety.
Please change your Internet handle to "Nostradamus." Thank you in advance. Please remember that WAY_BACK in 1991 ... Saddam Hussein created the worst environmental damage concerning oil the Earth has ever seen, by far. Nearly 20 years later, there are no measurable issues.
I think I heard him snickering and saying he would just as soon as you changed yours to Nostradumbass. Reckon that would be fair?
lol
It is just so fitting. A perfect title for the all purpose shill. I wonder if he is self medicating again?
I like how it rolls off the tongue. It's still Saturday night for Nostradumbass.
I like how it rolls off the tongue. It's still Saturday night for Nostradumbass. Hell, it is a week of endless Saturday Nights for Nostradumbass.
#30. To: abraxas (#28)
For your amusement. Starts at Post #17.
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#2. To: buckeroo (#1)
(Edited)
...the spill.
#3. To: Esso (#2)
We are going to die!
#4. To: buckeroo (#3)
#5. To: Ferret, Original_Intent (#4)
#6. To: buckeroo (#5)
#7. To: Ferret, Original_Intent (#6)
... so take that opinion with a huge grain of sea salt.
#8. To: buckeroo (#7)
#12. To: Ferret (#8)
#15. To: Original_Intent (#12)
While I agree the planet is resilient and has its own built in self correcting systems if you knock a system far enough out of equilibrium you get unpredictable results - it is likely to gyrate through a range of states and at this point none of them are pretty. The level of enviromental damage this spill is already doing, combined with the estimates that it could run for another 2 to 4 years, presents a set of unpalatable prospects. The Gulf IS going to be a dead zone for the foreseeable future - a minimum of ten years and more likely 30 to 50 before it ceases to be an issue. The human toll is incalculable at this point, but along with the death of the Gulf Fishery, will go the tourist trade, and a way of life that has endured effectively since before the American Revolution. Cajun Country is going to become dead country, and the affects of the toxic gas releases, along with the toxic and mutagenic properties of the Corexit 9527 oil dispersant (used unconscionably by Bee Pee to camouflage the scale of the oil release), is going to result in an increased rate of cancers and shortened life spans for anyone in the affected zone.
#17. To: buckeroo, Original_Intent (#15)
Please change your Internet handle to "Nostradamus." Thank you in advance.
#21. To: James Deffenbach, Original_Intent (#17)
Nostradumbass
#24. To: wudidiz, James Deffenbach, Nostradumbass, all (#21)
Nostradumbass
#25. To: Original_Intent (#24)
Nostradumbass
#28. To: wudidiz, James Deffenbach, Nostradumbass, all (#25)
Nostradumbass
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