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Whatever happened here?

Kevin Costner’s Machine Heads to BP’s Oil Spill Clean Up

Or, the Lady of Velasquez

Sorry about that!

I wanted to know what happened with the Costner project.

Costner Financed Research into Oil Spill Clean Ups for 15 Years

Costner has been funding a team of scientists for 15 years in hopes of developing a technology to clean up massive oil spills, and his research has created a powerful centrifuge that he claims can separate oil from water and dump the oil into a holding tank.

Costner and representatives of Ocean Therapy Solutions , the firm that developed the machine, demonstrated the centrifugal device for BP officials in New Orleans last week. “I believe they’ll want to do the right thing,” Costner told reporters at the time.

“We’ve agreed to test it,” BP spokesman Mark Proegler told abcnews.com today.

Officials with Ocean Therapy Solutions have said 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.