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99.9% oil and 99.9 water. >> you can do 200 gallons a minute? >> a minute. it's a centrifuge center and centrifuges have been around forever but this is a highly technical piece of machinery developed by david micrantz and formed a company and my brother helped me develop this and brought it to market, simply a thing that somehow it just didn't -- i guess, people thought spills were over. >> yeah. i was amazed to read in your testimony that you took this project for years. i mean, to government agencies, to oil companies, private industry and you were told, well, it is too expensive or wasn't ...

Kevin, how long have you been working on this machine, exactly? >> well, i've -- 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 didn't 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 we could separate 200 gallons a minute. and, you know, at the purity of 99.9% oil and 99.9 water....

And, you know, at the purity of 99.9% oil and 99.9% water. >> you can do 200 gallons a minute? >> a minute. it's a centrifuge system and centrifuges have been around forever but this is a highly technical piece of machinery developed by david micrantz and we formed a company and my brother helped me develop this and brought it to market, simply a thing that somehow it just didn't -- i guess, people thought spills were over. >> yeah. i was amazed to read in your testimony that you took this project for years. i mean, to government agencies, to oil companies, private industry and you were told, ...