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Kevin Costner has a solution for BP

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Costner cleanup device gets high marks from BP

It was treated as an oddball twist in the otherwise wrenching saga of the BP oil spill when Kevin Costner stepped forward to promote a device he said could work wonders in containing the spill’s damage. But as Henry Fountain explains in the New York Times, the gadget in question — an oil-separating centrifuge — marks a major breakthrough in spill cleanup technology. And BP, after trial runs with the device, is ordering 32 more of the Costner-endorsed centrifuges to aid the Gulf cleanup.

The “Waterworld” actor has invested some $20 million and spent the past 15 years in developing the centrifuges. He helped found a manufacturing company, Ocean Therapy Solutions, to advance his brother’s research in spill cleanup technology. In testimony before Congress this month, Costner walked through the device’s operation—explaining how it spins oil-contaminated water at a rapid speed, so as to separate out the oil and capture it in a containment tank:

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— Brett Michael Dykes is a national affairs writer for Yahoo! News.

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Oil Spill in the Apocalypse?

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

8 And the second angel sounded the trumpet: and as it were a great mountain, burning with fire, was cast into the sea, and the third part of the sea became blood: 9 And the third part of those creatures died, which had life in the sea, and the third part of the ships was destroyed. 10 And the third angel sounded the trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, burning as it were a torch, and it fell on the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters:  [Apocalypse 8]

3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea, and there came blood as it were of a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea. 4 And the third poured out his vial upon the rivers and the fountains of waters; and there was made blood. 5 And I heard the angel of the waters saying: Thou art just, O Lord, who art, and who wast, the Holy One, because thou hast judged these things: [Apocalypse 16]

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Oil Disaster Will Be End of Life As We Know It?

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

John Doty Jr.

This is it. It’s over. Get ready for the most insane year of your life. 5 years. 10 years. One day you will look back at your life right now and think about how easy it was, how innocent. We are on the cusp of total collapse, right at the precipice.

If you’re like most people you probably have already decided that I am exaggerating without knowing why I am saying this. Well let me make it clear that I also wish I was exaggerating. I don’t sell survival equipment or gold. My job is not recession proof. I have a family. I didn’t wake up today and randomly decide to declare that this is the end of life as we know it. But I do research. I make calls and tune into radio, scouring the internet for news clips and analysis. I make a concerted effort to only quote trustworthy sources. The information that has emerged over the past few days confirms fears that this is actually an “Armageddon” event. I am being completely serious.

http://johndotyjr.blogspot.com/2010/06/oil-disaster-will-be-end-of-life-as-we.html

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sign of the times: oil spill

Monday, May 24th, 2010

BARATARIA BAY, La. — As the Gulf of Mexico oil spill seeps deeper into the Louisiana marshes, the fragile grasses get difficult to clean, and the rescue efforts of wildlife like the brown pelican become harder. The biggest looming uncertainty of all — when will BP be able stop the leak?

With each day, the anger and questions grow with the untold millions of gallons of oil that has spewed into the Gulf since an offshore rig exploded more than a month ago. BP PLC is getting barges and other equipment ready to prepare for a risky procedure midweek that the company hopes will finally halt the gusher.

But the “top kill” maneuver, which shoots heavy mud and then cement into the blown well, has never been tried at 5,000 feet underwater and BP officials caution they are working on a range of backup plans.

Even if it works, the damage has been done.

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…And Terror Theatre in New York

Monday, May 3rd, 2010
by Michael Hoffman
According to the Associated Press, to solve the British Petroleum (BP) undersea oil disaster “depends on a low-tech strategy that has never been attempted before in deep water. The scheme: lower 74-ton, concrete-and-metal boxes into the gulf to capture the oil and siphon it to a barge waiting at the surface. Whether that will work for a leak 5,000 feet below the surface is anyone’s guess; the method has previously worked only in shallower waters. If it doesn’t, and efforts to activate a shutoff mechanism called a blowout preventer continue to prove fruitless, the oil probably will keep gushing for months until a second well can be dug to cut off the first.”

The media and the US government are being very low key about this. Even Greenpeace and the Sierra Club are merely talking about political action of the “E-mail President Obama” type. It is almost as if a very high level directive has been issued ordering the media not to panic the population of the western hemisphere. However, if the oil continues to flow undersea, the ocean will begin to die.

This catastrophe is far beyond the capability of BP corporation. It is astonishing that international resources are not being brought into mobilization immediately. President Obama assures us that “BP will pay.” That’s not the point, Mr. President. BP is likely to be bankrupt if and when this catastrophe concludes. The point is not even the economic livelihood of America’s southern Gulf Coast, as much as we pity all of the folks who will suffer economic deprivation because of man playing God. The point is the health of the oceans of planet earth, upon which all life is dependent.

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Sign of the times: Arithmetic Population & Energy

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Dr. Albert A. Bartlett

Dr. Albert A. Bartlett presents an interesting and revealing study on the energy crisis facing the country and the world. Dr. Albert A. Bartlett is a Professor Emeritus at the Department Of Physics at University of Colorado at Boulder. This presentation was given in 2008 and has importance for everyone who consumes any energy resource.

“The greatest shortcoming of the Human race is our inability to understand the exponential function,” says Dr. Albert A. Bartlett.

Faced with the problem of per capita consumption of petroleum, the world is on the verge of the climax of production and consumption (at its peak), or it has already reached there, with the amount of oil reserves still to be found or has already been found, and the amount of consumption is downward from here onward.

Given the world’s population, the statistics of consumption and production with the availability of resources, it isn’t getting any better.

Due the many natural problems facing humanity, one has to wonder if we are heading closer to the end of times.

Luckily, from a certain trend of prophecy, humanity will go back to the agriculture and land as the solution to the energy crisis. God, in his providence, will show man how to life properly with the natural resources provided for him.

But the problem of population isn’t something that man can solve alone. It cannot be resorted to destruction and prevention of life. Human life cannot be manipulated. Due the the increasing amount of sin in the world, God, from his justice and mercy, will cause a chastisement to lower the world’s impurity of sin with the decreasing in amount of population worldwide.

We can reasonably expect something to this effect will happen.

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