Video: Kevin Costner's Sweet Oil Centrifuge IN ACTION!

This is pretty AWESOME

Some rich guy that actually thinks about commune interest and uses his money to develop non pollutant technology to actually recover ecosystems!?

He is a hero already!

We need thousands of this type of "private money" in action.

I find it incomprehensible and completely reprehensible that so many people make jokes about all this. If one of these machines, with the math done, can clean over 6,800 barrels per day "as is", we should all be praying that the technology is applied to create larger machines to not only use in this spill, but other inevitable spills in the future. Who cares if Kevin had a couple of bad movies. This is one movie star out of how many total, that has done something tremendous with his money and possibly come up with something that can help. While all of you movie critics are doing WHAT? Talking? Try making a living on the ocean sometime and then watch as it is killed before your eyes. Kevin Costner should be recieving nothing but our respect and gratitude for developing this machine and all of you movie critics out there should go back to watching your tv and eating Big Macs or whatever it is you do. Maybe you should try cleaning up a little oil from a marsh yourself sometime and see how fun THAT is. Anything and I mean ANYTHING that can be done is valuable. Talk, criticism and opinions accomplish nothing. Action is what matters right now...Thank you Kevin for using your money for something other than just buying "bling" like so many others...

Sounds like a useful good idea & and excellent use for technology, so I expect both the government & BP execs will have absolutely nothing to do with it.

I joked before, but seriously, kudos to Mr. Brooks for doing something proactive.

In other news, I hear the BP spin doctors saying that the environmental impact is/will be minimal. Gotta love corporate.

"Ocean Therapy Solutions spokesman John Houghtaling said the resulting water was even good enough to drink!"

Comprehension FAIL. If you actually listen to what he says: "we are working on the technology now that will get us the other 3% so that you can actually drink out of the machine."

You hack.

play nice, dude

$24 million? Costner should have called James Dyson. If Dyson's Vortex Action can clean your living room carpet, it can clean the ocean!

This + Field of Dreams = Costner is THE MAN.

the man? ummm no.

can centrifugal force fix the legend of robin hood?

right.

Wheres Mr.Green Leonardo DiCaprio in all this?

On a private jet banging a Victoria's Secret model?

he's already doing something positive for the world by staying the hell away from hollywood.

can someone do the math though? 200 gallons/minute in the ocean? how many of these machines would we need to even make a dent??

From Gizmodo: Costner has been funding this project for 15 years, which was spearheaded by his brother. They have a model that processes 200 gallons of water per minute.

http://gizmodo.com/5541997/this-machine-may-save-us-from-the-gulfs-oil-disaster

If this works, Costner becomes a hero.

thanks but the link didn't provide any new info except the 15 years part. although i really hope otherwise, it seems highly unlikely that this machine will even begin to help. the government estimates 210,000 gallons (5,000 barrels) a day are leaking. but then it obviously spreads. the amount of ocean water to be cleaned is absolutely tremendous.

In theory, 200GPM would process 288,000 gallons per day. That's if it were running 24 hours a day. But if you had ten or twenty of these things out there, it seems like it would make a real difference.

What we don't know is what the ratio is between gallons of water processed and gallons of dirty water siphoned. So if we collect .5 gallons of dirty water for every gallon of water processed, that would produce tens-of-thousands of gallons of contaminated liquid that would need to be put someplace. Also, if the clean water gets dumped immediately back into the bay, where it would mix again with more dirty water, then there's the issue of potentially reprocessing the same water over and over again until its clean.

I'm interested in hearing how this will actually work.

He does have 24 of these machines. This info has been very hard to find on the main media, but I heard it on Rush Limbaugh. Not a peep out of MSN or CNN, ABC, or even Fox.

This is more the basic principle of the cream separator. I love that idea. ( we are small dairy farmers)

You don't think Rush is "main media?" What, do you know how many people listen to his show?

According to Wikipedia, the area of the oil spill was 3850 square miles on April 30. The Wikipedia article also states that most of the oil was likely contained within 1 foot of the surface.

The volume of polluted water that needs to be processed is (conservatively) 1 trillion gallons.

At 200 Gallons per minute, it would take about 10,000 years to process that water.

Essentially, it is like trying to clean the ocean with a large swimming pool filter.

Shhh. They don't like the math around these parts.

So this is where all of the money went that The Postman made.

Thanks Costner. I'll never make fun of you in Waterworld or Tin Cup again.

j/k. Those movies were terrible

waterworld was a great movie, seriously

I really like Tin Cup!!