Kevin Costner Saves the Gulf?

Waterworld Redux?

From the LA Times:

The " Kevin Costner solution" to the worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may actually work, and none too soon for the president of Plaquemines Parish.

Costner has invested 15 years and about $24 million in a novel way of sifting oil spills that he began working on while making his own maritime film, "Waterworld," released in 1995.

Two decades later, BP and the U.S. Coast Guard plan to test six of his massive, stainless steel centrifugal oil separators next week.

Wouldn't it be funny if one of the world's arguably worst movies was the inspiration for an improved way to clean up oil spills?

H/T Threedonia
Cross posted at Say Anything