[BITList] centrifugal force to the rescue

[CT's]

      a.. Fc = mv2/r, where Fc = centrifugal force, m = mass, v = speed, and r = radius. 
      a.. 

     
Enter costner's cavalry.

[one of these dream machines working at 100% efficiency may be able to process about 800 tons of oily water - and the GOM is how big?]

the mess should be cleaned up in no time!

ct

ps    a dream machine by any other name is still a centrifugal separator - are you listening alfa laval?


Costner's 'dream' machines debut
 
AP Photo/Cheryl Gerbe

Actor Kevin Costner, left, founding partner of Ocean Therapy Solutions and BP CEO of Operations Doug Suttles, center, talk before boarding the barge holding Ocean Therapy's centrifuge machine designed to separate oil and water in Port Fourchon, La., Friday.

Hollywood star Kevin Costner debuted Friday in his supporting role as a Gulf oil-spill fighter.

News agencies reported on the actor's premiere staged at the docks in the oil industry supply port of Port Fourchon in southern Louisiana as BP began deploying 32 of his "dream" machines to separate oil from water. Costner's backdrop was an oil-finding barge with his machines mounted on the deck.

"At its core, my dream, this machine, was designed ... to give us a fighting chance to fight back the oil that's got us by the throat," Costner told reporters. 
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