Posted on 09/09/2018 9:40:49 AM PDT by Eddie01
https://www.theoceancleanup.com/system001/
The Ocean Cleanup team claims their 2,000-foot tube will provide the solution to widespread plastic pollution in the world's seas.
A ship departing Los Angeles on Saturday is carrying a giant floating tube which company researchers claim will help to clean plastic pieces spread throughout the ocean, the Guardian reports. The Ocean Cleanup has been in the planning stages for several years and is now testing its technology on the open sea.
The first test launch was made on Saturday with the ship deploying System 001 tubes in the San Francisco Bay. The tubes were set to be in a U-shaped form, the better to contain and retrieve floating plastic garbage. A 9-foot skirt beneath the tubes stops plastic bits from floating away but allows wildlife to travel below.
The efficiency of the Ocean Cleanup system is on track to be detailed after a test run of some 6 weeks, after which a support will rendezvous with the collection vessel to retrieve collected pollutants.
System 001, coordinates: 37.81867° / —122.4421°. Check out our live map via https://t.co/1BtgT9dps7 to track the system's location. pic.twitter.com/sxw3xt1bxL
Ocean Cleanup is currently a small nonprofit organization founded by a Netherland's resident Boyan Slat. At the age of 18, Slat proposed the cleanup the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – a floating mass of plastic bits and pieces of garbage said to be twice the size of Texas. If it can swell to a fleet of 60 devices like System 001, Ocean Cleanup says that it could remove at least 50 percent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in five years, and 90 percent of ocean trash by 2040.
To gather funds the company launched a crowdfunding campaign in 2013, which raised $35 million in donations since that time, according to CNBC. The funds allowed the testing pf 270 models and six prototypes before the creation of System 001.
The Ocean Cleanup attracted the attention of environmental and tech companies, including tech star Elon Musk, who tweeted that he found the idea of System 001 “cool.”
Looks cool
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 8 сентября 2018 г. Environmental activist group Greenpeace noted that while the idea is “laudable,” it deals only with consequences and does not address the root cause of the problem: the widespread and thoughtless oceanic pollution practised by mankind.
“Prevention is far better than cure and in order to tackle the pollution crisis corporations must stop producing so much plastic,” a Greenpeace spokesperson told the Guardian.
Several self contained factory ships like the large whalers used to be with support vessels is what they need, payed for by private donations. Conveyor it up the front, strain it, remelt it down and form it into new practical products coming out the rear to be carried off and used.
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Floating plastic is not pollution, nor is it really a problem to anyone but those with an itchy a$$hole.
That flotsam is home to life.
This is like everything else “environmental,” Fake to the core.
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The fish are healthier where that mass of flotsam is. It provides a very prolific food chain.
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It may be affordable, but its just another ‘solution’ in search of a problem.
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That’s what it really is, but with a net hanging below.
It will destroy a huge thriving ecosystem.
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Your tube ain’t so giant from what I’ve heard here, and I tend to doubt that its ever clean.
(OK, just joking)
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>> “ Their chance of changing the state of the ocean in any meaningful way is zero.” <<
For sure, like everything “environmental.”
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And its now a thriving ecosystem.
Exactly. Just a big net. Haven’t they been doing this same thing for years?
All those gallon milk bottle art projects must be really disconcerting to see from the air.
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From 40,000 feet?
How big is a milk jug 8 miles away?
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Bigger than your sense of humor, obviously.
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No, but you took the wrong direction.
Its impossible to tell what the stuff is, even from one mile up. Most think its foam bubbles on the surface.
One woman asked if there was a ship sunken below emitting oil when she saw it. (would have had to be quite a huge ship to make such a large patch) She had no idea even how far away it was.
It takes a leftie nut case to imagine that its a problem, and it doesn’t look like anything my unprofessional eyes call “art.”
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