Posted on 09/09/2018 9:40:49 AM PDT by Eddie01
How do they plan to move all that plastic through the tube?
What fancy pumping system do they have in mind?
Polluting the world might seem a worthy objective.
But, I am crass and always seek economic objectives.
On examination of arial photos of the major floating plastic mass it is apparently feasible to recycle the plastic. The number of soda straws and grocery bags to be made is literally incalcuable.
Not to mention 3D-printed plastic "ghost guns".
“Natural forces move the system faster than the plastic which allows the plastic to be captured in the center of the system”
The system has become part of the plastic and will move at the same speed.
All I can say is “Rots of ruck”
Of the billions of tons of trash in the “Texas sized” Pacific trash vortex, the United States contributed less than 1%. The largest contributors is China.
Using a 2000 ft boom in the ocean is like using a push broom and sweeping the Sahara Desert.
Both are a waste of time, energy and hope.
Take a crap in one hand, hope in the other, see which one fills up first.
The Ocean Cleanup team claims their 2,000-foot tube will provide the solution to widespread plastic pollution in the world's seas.
They'll stone you when you try to go home.
The Pacific Ocean is 30 percent of the world's surface. And it sez here, "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of plastic, floating trash halfway between Hawaii and California, has grown to more than 600,000 square miles... twice the size of Texas."
The tube is made of plastic. One day the tow rope will break off from the ship and the tube sink into the ocean....
Convert 10 oil tankers or even retired aircraft carriers into huge blast furnaces with a warehouse. Expand this guys nets 1000 feet. Pull the garbage in, run it through the blast furnace, mold into large blacks that can be used for jetties and wrecks.
10 tankers 30,000 feet in nets. Will take a lot less time to clean up the ocean
Large blacks can be used as nfl kneelers but they don't make good jetties or wrecks...and it's racisssssssst.
Once they’ve collected the trash what do they do with it?
When a tree hugger asks my political leanings, I like to reply that I am a registered Republican, and I vote for dirty air, and dirty water. The look they give me is always priceless !
Now that’s funny.
Does it work on swamps..in particular unwanted swamp creatures?
Exactly
The oceans are VAST
Dump it back into the ocean after shipping it to India and China and Africa.
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This is nothing new, its been done before at a somewhat smaller scale.
The “Junk” is now home to billions or trillions of phyto-organisms, so the project will wreak biological mayhem.
In short it will accomplish exactly the opposite of what it claims to be doing.
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