BP Purchases Actor Kevin Costner’s v20 to Reclaim Oil
“I’m not on a white horse,” Costner said. “I’m not the savior to this thing. But I’m kind of saying, like, I got a life preserver.”
The device, which is designed to be brought to the spill site on barges, can separate 99% of oil from water and recycle up to 2,000 barrels per day. Costner spent 15 years and $20 million of his own money to develop the machine.
“If 20 of my V20s would have been at the Exxon Valdez, 90 percent of that oil would have been cleaned up within the week,” Costner said.
The “Dances with Wolves” and “Waterworld” star said he got the idea to develop the centrifuge while watching the Exxon-Valdez spill in 1989.
