[Eddie01]

I hope is works!

[Artemis Webb]

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.

[Magnum44]

I love how they talk about testing new technology. It’s a big net.

[Lazamataz]

I prefer my oceans polluted.

Fish are overrated.

#POLLUTETHEWORLD

[Beowulf9]

I hope it works but the ocean is an awful big place. Seems like a drop in the bucket idea to me.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

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.
 

[DuncanWaring]

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.

Get China to quit dumping plastic into the Pacific.

[PIF]

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.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

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.

[PIF]

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’

[WKUHilltopper]

Musk thinks it’s a giant joint?

[Larry Lucido]

So, a giant straw?

[Darteaus94025]

Yes; I wonder what material they used to fabricate that giant bendable tube?

[NormsRevenge]

It is a hugh task. The mass is said to cover an area the size of Texas.

2000 feet? I don’t know.

Maybe I’d be more confident if they had Leon Panetta and Ted Danson piloting the vessel. They were so big on ‘Save the Oceans’ not so many years ago. Save it for what, I’m not sure. Aliens perhaps.

[rockrr]

So how long before some guy pulling water skiers runs over it?

[9YearLurker]

I remember seeing this kid’s Ted Talk a couple of years ago. Very inspirational.

[Ceebass]

Plastic is not very reactive. It comes more under the category of ‘sight pollution,” if that’s the right term for it.

I’d be more concerned about sewage, chemicals, and Fukushima radiation than plastic thousands of miles out in the ocean, where no one can see it.

Still, if someone wants to clean it up and I don’t have to pay for it, that’s fine with me.

[FrankR]

When the “tube” gets full...who’s going to empty it?

[353FMG]

How do they plan to move all that plastic through the tube?
What fancy pumping system do they have in mind?

[Bonemaker]

"Cool!"

[Ben Mugged]

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.