Who they outta call, eh.
Posted on 06/15/2010 7:51:22 PM PDT by grace522
Teaching a child how to ride a bike always involves certain lessons.
How to pedal, how to balance yourself, how to steer.
We teach these things because they are common sense.
But we also teach — stress, actually — the most important aspect of bike riding: how to stop.
Why? Because it defies common sense not to do so. After all, it would be irresponsible and dangerous to engage in an activity which we couldn’t control.
Teaching someone how to stop a bike can’t guarantee an accident won’t happen, but it certainly lessens the likelihood.
After watching the gulf oil spill, it’s apparent that common sense is in short supply from both oil companies and the U.S. Government.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.phillymag.com ...
Lol...My Mother was even rooting for Kevin’s idea...
Costner’s been on this idea for years. Put his money where his mouth is. I don’t particularly like his movies but bashing him seems juvenile at best.
All I saw was a prototype that looked like it might
clean a gallon in five minutes... Costner just looking
for financing.
This country would be better off if Kevin Costner were president. Maybe not a lot better off, but at least we'd have someone with passion and interest in the problem. Obama just wants to golf.
Who they outta call, eh.
The man put in close to $20 Million of his own money for this.
The technology has been there for ages. It was in fact, originally funded by the government before the technology was sold to private groups ( Costner being one of the buyers ).
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
What did Costner say when he saw Joy Behar?
Ans: Tatonka, tatonka
IF OBAMA’S CALLING KEVIN COSTNER, THINGS MUST BE REALLY SCREWED UP.
I hear Ohaha also speed-dialed Oprah.
EPIC FAIL
That speech of his was so well-rehearsed——he must have channelled Lee Strassberg.
Seems like Kevin might have Part of a useful system.
What will his device be able to do about Oil suspended in the Pelagic Zone?
Will all oil from the spill eventually rise to the surface?
Or would it be possible to attach some kind of ROV to the end of a long suction tube to seek out Suspended slicks?
BP is buyiung 32 of the largest size, the half-million-dollar V20, which (supposedly) will clean 210,000 gallons per day. That’s about 146 gallons per minute. It would be a very slow process, using lots of energy, I’m sure. I wonder how much of a carbon footprint one of them has. :-)
Here’s a graphic and more info:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/06/gulf-oil-spill-costner-solution-has-green-light-but-no-green.html
No, you call his nephew.
...and if Chuck can’t do anything about it, there’s always Oprah Winfrey.
He's put 15 yrs - he and his scientist brother and company - into this - and some $26 million of Kostner's money.
The demonstration machine he used is a small model for just that.
It seems that many freepers these days will swallow whatever they read without doing any independent research. Disheartening.
But for those of you not adverse to looking into the truth of what Kostner was offering - 26+ large machines ready to go, over a month ago - one of their machines is capable of cleaning up to 210,000 gallons of water per day. The oil extractor leaves the water 99 percent clean of crude, the firm said in a statement. If implemented when he went there - they could have now cleaned many millions of gallons of water and there would be FAR less oil to destroy the beaches.
If obummer had also accepted the help for all the other countries that offered it - just days into it - we would likely not HAVE any oil on the beaches. But to let them come in - or even to let Kostner's machines be operated, it would have non-Union workers and obummer won't allow it. (He could simply waive the Jones ACt to allow it, but he's protecting/obeying the unions.
live links next post so even the laziest can easily get to them.
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/give-kevin-costner-credit-for-bp-oil-spill-efforts
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/gulf-oil-spill-bp-countries-offer-assistance.html
Kostner
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/give-kevin-costner-credit-for-bp-oil-spill-efforts
17 Countries Offer Gulf Assistance, BP Accepts Only 2 Offers - from the very first.
As obama told us, once he finally took a little time to acknowledge the spill, BP took orders from him and did nothing without his say so.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/gulf-oil-spill-bp-countries-offer-assistance.html
These are just two of the many solutions that have been brought forth - It is TOTALLY the presidents fault that this oil is reaching and destroying our coasts and may well finish our economy (not that he and his thugs want that...”never let a crisis go to waste”
Critics of the mandated relief-well suggestion will scoff that it is naïve, and that things aren’t so black-and-white. We’ll hear that the situation is more “complicated” than this columnist makes it out to be, and that we, the lay people, just don’t understand.
And you know what? That will signify that such a suggestion is on the right track.
Because invariably, whenever we peons are patronized with such language — usually by politicians and business executives in hot water — it means that damage-control is in full swing to cover the derrieres of those who failed to use that age-old, and too often forgotten trait, called common sense.
Yeah, sure, my pea-brain Freind. Just because you're stupid and ignorant doesn't mean you're right. You talk big now, but where were you in all your ignorant glory before this happened, you who has all the answers now?
Common sense tells me that you're a blowhard Monday-morning quarterback who would be able to address the idiocies of your plan if you had even a slight clue what you were talking about. But to just bluster about "if my plan is so stupid that people talk down to me, then it must be right" is truly delusional.
In the Chris Freind world, every time a fire engine responded to a fire, it would be towing two other engines behind it..."just in case it breaks down."
Other 80's underemployed celebrities Bananarama and Judd Nelson say they're available anytime, anywhere for ideas.
Kudos to him for having the American spirit.....investing hard-earned money and dreams in something that is beneficial employment-wise and in other ways to OUR country for a change.
Leni
As others have already said, it was Costner's money that financed the project. 24 million dollars and almost twenty years with his scientist brother Dan in charge of developing the technology.
I believe they bought the technology from the Energy Dept.
They have 20 or so large units ready to go, and they can build more. Very interesting stuff.
The author is embarrassing himself.
I agree.
When did we start bashing entrepreneurs and investors in great ideas.
I may not agree with how Kevin votes. But today, I don’t even care.
Good for him!!!. He’s done more than the president and BP put together.
It's that kind of entrepreneurship that big government gets in the way of. We've all heard the stories of inventors and seen their products who are dying to help. We know that other countries have capabilities we don't.
But the big bureaucracy is in the way and moves so slowly that the window to mitigate this situation is closing.
Do you realise how badly Obama would have been mocked here on FR, if he had asked for Costners help 4 or 5 weeks ago?
If you wonder, maybe this will help.
These devices don’t take that much power. They have few moving parts. They are portable. The largest unit at the moment separates oil from water at a rate of 200gpm with 99% efficiency.
He doesn’t need financing, and he has been testing these units IN THE GULF already, and they are very successful.
Go to the company website, watch the video, look at the specs on the different models.
Because you certainly got the wrong impression from where ever you saw some prototype.
Chuck can always do something about it.
From the website:
British Petroleum signed a letter of intent with Ocean Therapy Solutions [...]"British Petroleum" hasn't existed in more than a decade, AFAIK.
Note that the "99% efficiency" is not for energy, but how much water is in the effluent of the device. The claim means 10,000 ppmv or ppm of oil remains in the water. Compare this to the 0.5 ppm of oil people were complaining about in the underwater plumes.
I'm not saying it wouldn't help, but 10 V20 machines per month won't cut it.
The first test emulsified the stuff and made a mess. They say they fixed that problem and retested and had success ibn the breownwater test.
Thy are now deploying again for bluewater testing and haven’t yet released test results. As the website says: “The tests remain closed to media as we continue our work.”
I see that MSNBC was extremely harsh with Ohaha after his speech. That will cost Ohaha at least 4 votes next time around.
Heh-—nice slap.
I think you’re better off calling Kevin Costner than James Cameron!
All I saw was a prototype that looked like it might
clean a gallon in five minutes... Costner just looking
for financing.”
What you saw was a SMALL SCALE prototype. That is not the full size machine!!!!!
The machine that Kevin & his brother have worked on for years is much larger- it cleans 2100 gallons a minute, using centrifugal forces.
Kevin has put $26 million of his own money into the R & D of this equipment.
What have YOU done lately?
I agree that not all items that are started & subjected to comprehensive R & D are totally viable, but unless you have spent $26 million of YOUR money on something- Shut up.
Meanwhile, ABC said this AM that BP has been testing the machines & they have ordered 32 of them.
I bow to your specs.
I had heard 2100 gallons a minute.
Absolutely agree. And the man has a real CT SS #, + both his parents were American citizens, and he was born here! He also is an excellent horseman. OK, he's not as good an actor as the Soetoro boy, but he is a better golfer.
BTW, Kevin's machine actually works, which is something Kid Kenya hasn't mastered.
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