{"id":730314,"date":"2010-05-19T12:34:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T16:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=11950"},"modified":"2010-05-19T12:34:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T16:34:45","slug":"abc-news-kevin-costner%e2%80%99s-machine-heads-to-bp%e2%80%99s-oil-spill-clean-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/730314","title":{"rendered":"ABC News: Kevin Costner\u2019s machine heads to BP\u2019s oil spill clean up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.abcnews.go.com\/topic\/BP-p.l.c.\">BP<\/a><span> <\/span>has  turned to &#8220;Waterworld&#8221; star <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.abcnews.go.com\/topic\/Kevin-Costner\">Kevin Costner<\/a> to help clean up the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory?id=10685219\" >oil slick<\/a> that is spreading across the <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.abcnews.go.com\/topic\/Gulf-of-Mexico\">Gulf of Mexico<\/a>.\u00a0Costner has been funding a team of scientists for 15 years in hopes of  developing a technology to clean up massive oil spills, and his research  has created a powerful centrifuge that he claims can separate oil from  water and dump the oil into a holding tank:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;\" border=0 width=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/counters.gigya.com\/wildfire\/IMP\/CXNID%3D2000002.0NXC\/bT%2AxJmx%2APTEyNzQzNzIzOTE1ODEmcHQ9MTI3NDM3MjM5NDc5MyZwPTEyNTg%2AMTEmZD1BQkNOZXdzX1NGUF9Mb2NrZV9FbWJlZCZn\/PTImbz1hYjNjNDZkODVmZTI%2AMTNjOTBmOTYyYjQyOGFhNmI1NiZvZj%2Aw.gif?resize=0%2C0\" \/><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,124,0\" width=\"344\" height=\"278\" id=\"ABCESNWID\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/assets\/player\/walt2.6\/flash\/SFP_Walt.swf\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"configUrl=http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/sfp\/embedPlayerConfig&#038;configId=406732&#038;clipId=10688556&#038;showId=10688556&#038;gig_lt=1274372391581&#038;gig_pt=1274372394793&#038;gig_g=2\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BP has turned to &#8220;Waterworld&#8221; star Kevin Costner to help clean up the oil slick that is spreading across the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0Costner has been funding a team of scientists for 15 years in hopes of developing a technology to clean up massive oil spills, and his research has created a powerful centrifuge that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33Zg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}