In an effort to address the BP’s oil spill disaster in the gulf, he paid scientists to develop a large-scale centrifuge that can separate oil from sea water, saving the oil in tanks while returning the clean seawater to the sea.
Costner calls it the “Ocean Therapy” centrifuge, a cleanup technology that can remove 97 percent of the oil from water. According to WWL-TV, BP approved Costner’s plan yesterday after watching it work in New Orleans last Thursday. BP is set to take the machines out onto barges for field testing.
The actor has invested more than $24 million in the machine’s inventor Ocean Therapy Solutions. “Years before I got involved oil spills would come and, I would wonder why we couldn’t clean this up,” Costner said.