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OK, depending on which article you believe, there’s either 2 million tires or 700,000 tires off the coast of Florida.

And extracting other information, they seem to be able to pull about 60 tires up at a time, whatever “a time” is but i’m guessing hours. Also, it appears that in the 3-week period they ran the operation, they pulled up 10,000 tires.

So if they ran this operation full time, they could pull about 170,000 tires a year, which means it would take between 5 and 12 years to get all the tires, depending on which initial number is correct.

Except that I presume the FIRST sets were the easiest to round up in groups of 60. As they get more tires, they will be further spread out in the water, more buried, and harder to put together. My guess is the last couple hundred thousand will be a lot harder than the first hundred thousand.

I also doubt they are getting enough energy out of each tire to make up for the energy costs of filling the dive tanks, running the ships and equipment to harvest the tires, and transport them to the facility. Maybe I’m wrong about that.

Why is it that every scheme of the environmental movement ends up with some cruel irony? Like entire pine forests being wiped out by beetles because we couldn’t harvest the older trees (which are the ones susceptible to the beetles, who also can’t spread unless the older trees are in close proximity to one another).

Of the removal of DDT which has lead to millions of cases of Malaria?

Or the shutdown of our nuclear power industry, which has led to untold damage caused by burning fossil fuels?