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Los Angeles - Kevin Costner is used to saving the day in movies. Now he's hoping that a machine that he's spent 15 years and $24m developing can save the US shorelines threatened by the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
According to the Los Angeles Times on Friday, BP is testing six of the massive oil separators, which spin like a washing machine to separate water from oil.
Costner began working on the centrifugal machines while filming his own maritime movie Waterworld in 1995, and is handing over six of the huge devices for BP to test as the oil conglomerate struggles to find a way to deal with the unprecedented pollution.
His company, Ocean Therapy Solutions, says that 20 such devices are available. They each are capable of cleaning 97% of oil from water and can clean 200 gallons a minute.
Costner is not the only Hollywood star offering hands-on help to deal with one of the worst environmental disasters ever to hit the US. Avatar director James Cameron has also offered to make his fleet of specialised underwater vessels available to the clean-up effort, while Robert Redford has filmed a commercial for the Natural Resources Defence Council that uses the spill as a clarion call for a clean energy initiative.
According to the Los Angeles Times on Friday, BP is testing six of the massive oil separators, which spin like a washing machine to separate water from oil.
Costner began working on the centrifugal machines while filming his own maritime movie Waterworld in 1995, and is handing over six of the huge devices for BP to test as the oil conglomerate struggles to find a way to deal with the unprecedented pollution.
His company, Ocean Therapy Solutions, says that 20 such devices are available. They each are capable of cleaning 97% of oil from water and can clean 200 gallons a minute.
Costner is not the only Hollywood star offering hands-on help to deal with one of the worst environmental disasters ever to hit the US. Avatar director James Cameron has also offered to make his fleet of specialised underwater vessels available to the clean-up effort, while Robert Redford has filmed a commercial for the Natural Resources Defence Council that uses the spill as a clarion call for a clean energy initiative.
