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Company Puts Giant Tube in Ocean to Clean It, Musk Calls It’s ‘Cool’ (VIDEO)
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| Sept. 9, 2018
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Posted on 09/09/2018 9:40:49 AM PDT by Eddie01
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I hope is works!
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posted on
09/09/2018 9:40:49 AM PDT
by
Eddie01
To: Eddie01
I hope it works too! This is not some wild tree huggers scheme. This guy seems to have come up with a possibly legitimate solution to a major pollution problem.
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posted on
09/09/2018 9:45:24 AM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
(Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
To: Eddie01
I love how they talk about testing new technology. Its a big net.
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posted on
09/09/2018 9:45:58 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: Eddie01
I prefer my oceans polluted.
Fish are overrated.
#POLLUTETHEWORLD
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posted on
09/09/2018 9:47:16 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
To: Magnum44
Then all the better. That makes it an affordable solution.
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posted on
09/09/2018 9:48:24 AM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
(Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
To: Magnum44
I was leaning towards a containment boom that is towed.
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posted on
09/09/2018 9:49:17 AM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: Lazamataz
Company Puts Giant Tube in Ocean to Clean It I hate it when my giant tube isn't clean.
To: Artemis Webb
Sounds good but it seems like these big ideas end up with huge unintended consequences. We may see.
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posted on
09/09/2018 9:50:47 AM PDT
by
gibsonguy
To: Artemis Webb
Something has to be wrong with this plan, according to most environmentalists. We don’t have to give something up, and nobody has to die. Are they slipping?
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posted on
09/09/2018 9:51:56 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
To: Eddie01
I hope it works but the ocean is an awful big place. Seems like a drop in the bucket idea to me.
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posted on
09/09/2018 9:54:05 AM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: Eddie01
They should prepare to be humbled. The ocean is unimaginably vast, changeable, and unknowable. A 2000 foot long tube is nothing. Their chance of changing the state of the ocean in any meaningful way is zero.
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posted on
09/09/2018 9:54:29 AM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
("Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.")
To: Eddie01
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.
Get China to quit dumping plastic into the Pacific.
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posted on
09/09/2018 9:59:05 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
If you look at the map at the top of the thread it looks like they are heading to one specific known garbage patch to see if they can make a dent in cleaning it up.
To: Eddie01
they could save a lot of effort by just placing it off China’s coast were the majority of this stuff originates from open garbage dumps on the beaches.
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posted on
09/09/2018 10:06:30 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Artemis Webb
Dont get me wrong. Im all for a clean environment. Gotta start somewhere I suppose, but theres a lot of ocean out there. Seems like a thankless and never ending job. And whose paying for it?
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posted on
09/09/2018 10:06:32 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
That makes sense. I hope they succeed. The state of West Coast beaches are unbelievably filthy with fishing nets, floats, trash of all sorts. I'm sure the origins of this mess lies far across the Pacific.
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posted on
09/09/2018 10:06:42 AM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
("Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.")
To: Lazamataz
#POLLUTETHEWORLD
—
Then, PAVEITOVER
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posted on
09/09/2018 10:07:31 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
You are probably right that there is nothing that can be done to clean the plastic pollution from the oceans. Yet, if there were several of those floating booms in the more polluted areas and thousands of tons of plastic were recycled each year at a profit then my vision of unicorns and butterfly sneezes would move from fantasy to reality. Plus it is fun to hope that technology and capitalism could solve a problem. As long as it is not my money, then let them give it a try.
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posted on
09/09/2018 10:07:50 AM PDT
by
Trumpet 1
(US Constitution is my guide.)
To: Eddie01
The thing is, most of the plastic in the ocean is being dumped there by China and India. Unless those nations move to clean up their acts, all of the straw banning and plastic bag banning to make our lives a little more annoying won’t make a dimes worth of difference.
To: Eddie01
and then there was a blow and the sea state kicked up to 40 knots with wave over 30 feet ending the fruitless feel-good ‘experiment’
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posted on
09/09/2018 10:10:11 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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