Kevin Costner's Ocean Therapy
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Energy and the Environment, Free Markets
Kevin Costner, of all people, has a device to clean oil out of water:
Costner’s $24 million centrifuge machine has a Los Angeles-perfect name, “Ocean Therapy.”
Placed on a barge, it sucks in oily water, separates out the oil and spits back clean water.
“It’s like a big vacuum cleaner,” said Costner’s business partner, Louisiana trial lawyer John Houghtaling.
The “Field of Dreams” star told reporters he started paying a team of scientists millions to create the device after the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska, while working on his epic 1995 flop “Waterworld.”
…Costner’s has 300 machines in various sizes, with the largest able to clean water at a rate of 200 gallons a minute, WDSU-TV reported.
Fantastic. This is how things gets done in a free society. Instead of sitting on his hands waiting for government to solve a problem after Exxon Valdez, a private citizen (albeit a rich and famous one) pursued an idea to make something better, and now it can be of use where government so clearly is not.
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