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re: First successful Harvest of plastic from the great pacific garbage patch
Posted on 12/18/19 at 10:57 am to HooDooWitch
Posted on 12/18/19 at 10:57 am to HooDooWitch
A long time ago I read an article in Popular Science about making synthetic spider webs. The strength and elasticity of the stuff was off the charts.
One of the suggested uses for it was a giant slingshot type device that could sling stuff in to space.
It gave me the idea of using it to launch huge containers of garbage at the sun.
We got the biggest incinerator in the solar system right there, with its own gravity to help us hit the target.
One of the suggested uses for it was a giant slingshot type device that could sling stuff in to space.
It gave me the idea of using it to launch huge containers of garbage at the sun.
We got the biggest incinerator in the solar system right there, with its own gravity to help us hit the target.
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Posted on 12/18/19 at 11:17 am to Oilfieldbiology
Now this a fantastic group of people
Posted on 12/18/19 at 11:23 am to Oilfieldbiology
I hope they succeed at a reasonable cost. It seems like a highly inefficient system they are using.
What is their carbon footprint to get what appears to be a relatively small amount of trash out of the ocean?
What is their carbon footprint to get what appears to be a relatively small amount of trash out of the ocean?
Posted on 12/18/19 at 12:10 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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This post was edited on 12/18/19 at 12:13 pm
Posted on 12/18/19 at 12:46 pm to Oilfieldbiology
so the 2 surfer dude guys selling bracelets that they claim are made exclusively from ocean plastic recovered from the ocean are just lying con men running a scam if this is the very first time they actually harvested plastic from the ocean, somehow im not shocked at all that environmentalists are all scam artists
This post was edited on 12/18/19 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 12/18/19 at 12:53 pm to Oilfieldbiology
its almost all from India and China
but we better ban straws here
but we better ban straws here
Posted on 12/18/19 at 1:20 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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The Ocean Cleanup is a Dutch nonprofit that created a 600 meter-long floating tube that skims the surface of the water to catch plastic trash.
I could link thousands of small non-profits doing similar environmental work. They do FAR more than any of the world's gov'ts do.
Posted on 12/18/19 at 1:52 pm to Oilfieldbiology
Not trying to be a jerk, but...
they sent a ship to the Pacific that burns fossil fuel and somebody paid a crew that eats, poops, etc, in other words, pollutes...to collect 60 bags of trash?
they sent a ship to the Pacific that burns fossil fuel and somebody paid a crew that eats, poops, etc, in other words, pollutes...to collect 60 bags of trash?
Posted on 12/18/19 at 1:57 pm to cypresstiger
poop isn't pollution unless you are eating plastic straws and drinking battery acid
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