Obama is busy in the golf too.
Posted on 06/18/2010 8:16:13 AM PDT by maine-iac7
Actor Kevin Costner today joins with BP officials to tout plans to finally start using a machine Costner has backed that can rapidly remove 99 percent of oil from water.
Costner said it wasn't until this week that BP decided to put his machines into action. Costner still isn't happy it took this long -- since he helped develop the machine a decade ago -- and arrived to help with the Deepwater Horizon disaster less than two weeks after the explosion.
"Twenty-first century technology has sat idly on the shelf for ten years when it could have been deployed as a first, most efficient responder to mitigate the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe," the actor told a U.S. Senate committee, blaming bureaucratic obstacles and general intransigence kept his company sidelined for weeks.
Costner said took weeks to get Coast Guard approval for a test run. After tweaking the machines a bit, Costner says BP official Doug Suttles called this week with good news:
"He told me that it was working against the dispersants, that it was handling the variations of oil mixtures and thickness present in the gulf," said Costner. He ordered 32 machines and told me that this represented the beginning of us working together."
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Shame on you.
Costner has put tens of millions of his own money into his outfit with his scientist brother and others developing these machines for the past 15 years.
THEY WORK. HE had them on the gulf 2 weeks into the spill. they could have cleaned up, it's estimated, 80% of the oil if put into use then. (Along with the other expert help offered from other countries, NONE of that oil should have reached shore.)
As to Cameron: he's an engineer. He designed the deep water submarines he used in his Titanic explorations - for starters. He may not have a Nobel Prize, like obamas newly appointed czar, but - well, do your own darn search. Freepers shouldn't have to be spoon fed. They didnt used to.)
This administration should be charged with criminal negligence, at the least.
Costner has more sense than the whole Zero Regime put together.............
Sooooo, the refuse the help the Dutch offered and grab onto Costner?
Lighten up Francis
Meanwhile, the Coast Guard is still stopping oil eating barges to check for life vests and fire extinguishers.
“Costner has more sense than the whole Zero Regime put together.............”
Well, why not? He is a good conservative after all.
And they failed on their first test a few weeks ago.
They have made adjustments and as of last week, had not completed their bluewater testing.
Freepers shouldn't have to be spoon fed. They didnt used to.)
This administration should be charged with criminal negligence, at the least.
Agreed.
But 32 skimmers at 250,000 gpd each (the V20 model) and still spitting out 10,000 ppm of oil (they are not exactly clear on their specs, I noted, but I'm assuming that they mean they are able to reduce effluent to 1% oil from the way they state it) aren't going to do much. Even if you add 10 per month (that's how many they have said they can fabricate), that's not solving this.
Note, it's not like Costner had these things sitting around ready to go. They will take months to deliver even the first 32, from what I read.
My understanding is that their is other technology that is better and already made that has been refused.
Choosing Costner is only a PR move on this. He’ll speak out on behalf of BP as this goes forward.
Why are you in bed with Mr. Waterworld? By the way, it’s spelled “GOOGLE”.
Costner is the marketing arm. His brother is an actual engineer who designed the thing.
Still it seems good they are trying this.
Does Cameron know oil? BP has plenty of deep water engineers and submersibles. They need people who understand oil and the complexities of drilling 5000 feet down.
They offered help in the way of large oil sucking ships.
I am thinking they could have stopped this long ago.
Still?
Obama is busy in the golf too.
Do you have any evidence that Cameron is an actual engineer that designed things or is it more like he put up the money and others who actually studied engineering do the leg work and he took credit? I am not accusing you of being wrong but just curious to know the EXACT ROLE he had.
Costner and Cameron both have talent to offer - I’d take either of them over the idiot in the White House...
BP tested a version of Costner's device earlier this year, but the test failed after the machine gave the oil a peanut butter-like consistency. That problem has since been fixed, and BP is retesting the machine now in the hopes of getting it to the Gulf soon.
Are you talking about this Kevin Costner?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-384202/Kevin-Costner-named-hotel-sex-scandal.html
I saw him sitting there during the inquisition yesterday and wondered why. Now I know.
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