Jame Cameron consulted on how to fix the BP disaster

[rattsass]

I guess the powers that be finally realized that they don't have a clue and have consulted a think-tank including director James Cameron on how to fix the situation. http://www.wwltv.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/T...l-95345009.html

 

I'm all for picking anybody's brain for this disaster cure, but if I was a betting man (and I am) I'd say that cameron's inclusion in the think tank was as much a publicity ploy as anything. Color me unimpressed. Lots of ideas for cleanup being thrown around Youtube, but those are being ignored.

 

Maybe Cameron is being asked to recoup some of BP's money by making a real life horror docu-drama, in which everybody involved doesn't look like a bunch of bumbling mobsters.

[Jimmy Neutron]

Thanks, but we've already got a full house of incompetent leaders on the scene.

 

Mr. James - stay busy on the cutting room floor polishing off the Avatar sequel.

[bpwallace49]

Does it involve re-sinking the Titanic over the wellhead?

[Perchoutofwater]

Further proof the Obama administration is clueless and in over their heads.

[bpwallace49]

Further proof the Obama administration is clueless and in over their heads.

 

The Canadian-born Cameron is considered an expert on underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies.

 

 

This isnt something easy . . like bringing people that dont have food and water, food and water like Katrina Perch. This appears to be the first time anyone has had to try and deal with something like this.

 

I could have sworn you said you werent going to politicize this . . . .

[rattsass]

 

This isnt something easy . . like bringing people that dont have food and water, food and water like Katrina Perch. This appears to be the first time anyone has had to try and deal with something like this.

 

I could have sworn you said you werent going to politicize this . . . .

I think this move signals an end of detente.

[bpwallace49]

Did Cameron film "The Abyss"???

 

Maybe he has an underwater drilling platform we dont know about?

[evil_gop_liars]

So are they going to stuff blue space deer down the hole or not?

[buddahj]

So are they going to stuff blue space deer down the hole or not?

[MikesVikes]

This is a signal that they don't have a clue imo. However I'd call Moses Malone if I thought he'd know what to do about it.

[Skippy]

This is a signal that they don't have a clue imo. However I'd call Moses Malone if I thought he'd know what to do about it.

Exactly! I mean it seems clear that this is a mess that no one seems to know what to do with and yet there are ideas being floated around out there that seem to get no attention but if Cameron has some type of experince that brings anything to the table then why the hell not?

[HowboutthemCowboys]

Further proof the Obama administration is clueless and in over their heads.

at least they have'nt gone to a beach along the Gulf and hung a "Mission Accomplished" sign.

[rattsass]

The truly appalling part of this is that it takes 6 weeks of death and destruction before they reach out to these scientists and deep thinkers. To me, these types of meetings of the minds should have been taking place LONG ago. I mean, is it really that hard to motivate brilliant people to come up with a solution that could save life on earth as we know it?

 

I think (if we survive this as a species) we will look back on this and it will be clear just how bad this has been managed by the guilty parties and the government. The government apparently worked under the false assumption that BP would be able to manage this crisis (or WOULD manage this crisis at all) so they filddled while the Gulf burned. Suddenly it becomes apparent that the guilty (whose collective conscous allowed them to make horrific decisions at several junctures of the process that could have avoided this didaster) has no idea how to stop this and the government throws their towel in the ring with a Hollywood director. Fitting I suppose, since our government thinks they are in a magical make-believe land where you can spend your way to the Land of Oz.

Edited June 2, 2010 by rattsass

[evil_gop_liars]

The Titanic made a bazillion dollars and I think he became obsessed with the Titanic, the ocean floor and all deep sea robotic doodads. And spent large amounts of money doing so. So he does have a little experience.

 

It's not like they are bringing in an Arabian horse breeder to head this thing up.

[Azazello1313]

This is a signal that they don't have a clue imo. However I'd call Moses Malone if I thought he'd know what to do about it.

 

pretty much. but I, for one, am glad to see them reaching out. who knows who might have the silver bullet idea on this thing? ok, probably not that doosche cameron, but you never know. better than waiting around for a closet full of BP engineers running on fumes and frayed nerves to have a stroke of genius.

[SEC=UGA]

at least they have'nt gone to a beach along the Gulf and hung a "Mission Accomplished" sign.

 

No, but when the "top kill" looked like it may work they were very quick to come out in the media and state that the government "is in control" of the situation in the Gulf. Then when it didn't work they really began to distance themselves and throw even more blame on the liars at BP (for clarification, I do think the guys at BP were lying their asses off).

[rattsass]

No, but when the "top kill" looked like it may work they were very quick to come out in the media and state that the government "is in control" of the situation in the Gulf. Then when it didn't work they really began to distance themselves and throw even more blame on the liars at BP (for clarification, I do think the guys at BP were lying their asses off).

You noticed that too, huh?

[TimC]

No, but when the "top kill" looked like it may work they were very quick to come out in the media and state that the government "is in control" of the situation in the Gulf. Then when it didn't work they really began to distance themselves and throw even more blame on the liars at BP (for clarification, I do think the guys at BP were lying their asses off).

 

Lotta truth to that. I'm still hoping shoving James Cameron's huge ego down the hole will work though. Isn't that Barack Obamuslim's new plan? I didn't read the article.

[Yukon Cornelius]

at least they have'nt gone to a beach along the Gulf and hung a "Mission Accomplished" sign.

[NAUgrad]

The truly appalling part of this is that it takes 6 weeks of death and destruction before they reach out to these scientists and deep thinkers. To me, these types of meetings of the minds should have been taking place LONG ago. I mean, is it really that hard to motivate brilliant people to come up with a solution that could save life on earth as we know it?

 

I think (if we survive this as a species) we will look back on this and it will be clear just how bad this has been managed by the guilty parties and the government. The government apparently worked under the false assumption that BP would be able to manage this crisis (or WOULD manage this crisis at all) so they filddled while the Gulf burned. Suddenly it becomes apparent that the guilty (whose collective conscous allowed them to make horrific decisions at several junctures of the process that could have avoided this didaster) has no idea how to stop this and the government throws their towel in the ring with a Hollywood director. Fitting I suppose, since our government thinks they are in a magical make-believe land where you can spend your way to the Land of Oz.

Agreed. I still can't figure out why they aren't just laying out every possible solution to this and get to work on all of them. They come up with one idea, and only when it doesn't work do they work on another solution. They should have a list of things to stop the leak, work on all of them, and a list of things to slow down the leak, and work on all of those as well.

 

Anything right now to slow, stop, whatever the leak is what needs to be done.

[Egret]

He owns a fleet of submarines and has invented others that can climb into the deep ocean.

[bpwallace49]

Kevin Costner now in the act . . . every little bit helps.

 

 

Gulf oil spill: Kevin Costner donates 'Ocean Therapy' invention to clean oil from sea; BP OK's tests

BY Helen Kennedy

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

 

Thursday, May 20th 2010, 12:37 PM

 

Could there be a happy Hollywood ending to the Gulf oil spill?

 

Enter "Waterworld" star Kevin Costner, who has spent years and millions of dollars perfecting a device that cleans oil from seawater.

 

British Petroleum - desperate for ideas - gave the okay to test six of Costner's gizmos this week, said BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles.

 

Costner's high-speed centrifuge machine has a Los Angeles-perfect name: "Ocean Therapy."

 

Placed on a barge, it sucks in large quantities of polluted water, separates out the oil and spits back 97% clean water.

 

"It's like a big vacuum cleaner," said Costner's business partner, Louisiana trial lawyer John Houghtaling.

 

"The machines are basically sophisticated centrifuge devices that can handle a huge volume of water," he said.

 

The "Field of Dreams" star first got a team together to create the device in the wake of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska.

 

His scientist brother, Dan Costner, helped develop the device, and together, the brothers formed Costner Industries Nevada Corp. to pursue various energy projects, including a non-chemical battery that could last 15 years.

 

The 55-year-old actor eventually sank $26 million into the Ocean Therapy oil separator project. He obtained a license for the device from the Department of Energy in 1993 and has been trying for years to promote it.

 

In 2007, he told London's Daily Mail that he had blown millions on "technologies I thought would help the world" and had nothing to show for it.

 

"I've lost $40 million-plus," he said. "But I knew that if I was right, it would change things in an incredibly positive way."

 

Last week, he was in Louisiana seeking redemption, demonstrating his Ocean Therapy contraption.

 

"I'm just really happy that the light of day has come to this," Costner said.

 

Though reporters largely greeted his ideas with snickers, BP apparently wasn't laughing.

 

At least 210,000 gallons of oil per day is gushing into the sea from the ocean floor where the BP rig exploded April 20. The oil company has tried several novel solutions, but none has worked so far to plug the leak.

 

The company is skimming the oil, spraying it with dispersant chemicals underwater and trying to burn it on the surface.

 

Nineteen percent of the Gulf's lucrative fisheries are closed, billions of beach tourist dollars are at stake and dozens of seagoing species are threatened.

 

Costner has 300 of his Ocean Therapy machines in various sizes. The largest, at 21/2 tons, is able to clean water at a rate of 200 gallons a minute - faster than the well is leaking, Houghtaling noted.

 

Meanwhile, the 50 or so tar balls that washed up this week in the Florida Keys are not from the BP spill, the Coast Guard announced, temporarily calming tourism jitters.

"The source of the tar balls remains unknown at this time," the Coast Guard said.

 

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said a tendril of oil from the slick entered the Loop Current that leads to the Gulf Stream yesterday, prompting fresh fears for Florida's tourist industry.

 

A counterclockwise eddy in the Loop Current that might keep the oil contained - at least for now - has been observed, NOAA said.

 

NOAA set up a "virtual Incident Command Center" in St. Petersburg, Fla., just in case.

 

 

 

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