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We tracked down ray reynolds in mayhill, new mexico. >> i worked at conde vista and i was chairman of the union. >> the 52-year-old reynolds suffers from a rare blood disorder, a condition he blames on chemical exposure. nowadays, he says the mountain air is good for his health. >> i have complete kidney failure, which means without this machine, i would have maybe two to three weeks to live. the body -- i would die. >> reynolds travels for dialysis twice a week. when he worked at conde vista, r...

Disorder, a condition he blames on chemical exposure. nowadays, he says the mountain air is good for his health. >> i have complete kidney failure, which means without this machine, i would have maybe two to three weeks to live. the body -- i would die. >> reynolds travels for dialysis twice a week. when he worked at condea vista, reynolds says the plant water was contaminated with edc, ethylen dioxin chloride, and was heated to almost 1,000 degrees, a process called cracking to produce the viny...

Continually pumping and driving our turbine. >> and this is working now, or is this a prototype? and if it is working now, what is the energy youre producing in terms of homes being powered? >> yeah, this machine, its our physician oyster -- its our first machine. its installed in scotland. that machine has been installed and operating since october last year. and the machine itself, we are developing our second generation machine, which is much more powerful. and what we see is that approximate...

>> well t machine itself, what youre looking at when you see it, its about 500 meters or about 500 yards from the shoreline. so you do actually see the top of the machine from time to time. the machine is deliberately painted yellow as a requirement of the navigation that it should be visible. however, we are working with the local community as we always do. the key issue here is that we dont interfere with any of the recreational or economic activities in the sea. so we try and minimize that in...

Work? >> well, basically, the oyster machine is like a very large barn door, which is hinged at the bottom. and the action of the waves actually drive the oyster machine forwards and backwards. and you mentioned hydroelectric power. we have a couple of hydraulic pistons on this machine, which pumps high-pressure water. the high-pressure water then goes on shore and drives hydroelectric turbine. >> so basically, if im getting this straight, it creates this kind of a loop current between the wave ...

Or at least on a way in a specific time thats designed to meet and match with full force the worst-case scenario that can be presented to us. >> this is one of the devices that costner designed and says he came up with the idea after the exxon valdez disaster. i talked to him about it. kevin, how long have you been working on this machine, exactly? >> well, ive -- i took a technology at a department of energy probably in 92 or 93, and it was a very small, little machine and extrapolated that ide...

Meet and match with full force the worst-case scenario that can be presented to us. >> this is one of the devices that costner designed and says he came up with the idea after the exxon valdez disaster. i talked to him about it. kevin, how long have you been working on this machine, exactly? >> well, ive -- i took a technology at a department of energy probably in 92 or 93 and it was a very small, little machine and extrapolated that idea into r&d for about three years and enormous amount of mon...

Kevin, how long have you been working on this machine, exactly? >> well, ive -- i took a technology at a department of energy probably in 92 or 93 and it was a very small, little machine and extrapolated that idea into r&d for about three years and enormous amount of money thinking we didnt have to fight oil spills the way we had been seeing the recuring images and basically i thought that we could do this. and we scaled that up into something incredibly efficient and robust to the point where w...

Bp has just announced tonight it has ordered 32 machines designed by kevin costner to clean up the oil spill. more than two decades after the exxon valdez spill, the machine separates oil from water and manages to recycle the crude at the same time. kevin costner joins me from california for tonights exclusive big 360 interview. how long have you been working on this machine, exactly? >> well, i took a technology out at the department of energy probably in 92 or 93, it was a small machine that e...

Exxon valdez spill, the machine separates oil from water and manages to recycle the crude at the same time. kevin costner joins me from california for tonights exclusive big 360 interview. how long have you been working on this machine, exactly? >> well, i took a technology out at the department of energy probably in 92 or 93, it was a small machine that extrapolated that idea, took it into r&d for about three years, an enormous amount of money thinking we didnt have to fight oil spills the way ...