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Title: Costner's 'dream' machines debut
Source: 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: 1461
Comments: 79

Hollywood star Kevin Costner debuted Friday in his supporting role as a Gulf oil-spill fighter.

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.


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#1. To: christine, turtle, all (#0)

One more solution is on the way for the spill.

buckeroo  posted on  2010-06-20   12:18:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: buckeroo (#1) (Edited)

...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."

Esso  posted on  2010-06-20   12:58:29 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Esso (#2)

We are going to die!

buckeroo  posted on  2010-06-20   13:00:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: buckeroo (#3)

Oil Vey, surf's up.

Ferret  posted on  2010-06-20   13:14:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Ferret, Original_Intent (#4)

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?

buckeroo  posted on  2010-06-20   13:21:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: buckeroo (#5)

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.

Ferret  posted on  2010-06-20   13:28:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Ferret, Original_Intent (#6)

... 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?

buckeroo  posted on  2010-06-20   13:34:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#77. To: buckeroo (#7) (Edited)

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

Taking your remarks a step further.....What if the BP spill is an answer to al Qaida prayers???? Who have promised inshallah to drag the US into bankruptcy ala the Soviet Union?

With more supernatural rebukes forthcoming...Zowie...

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