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Pacific Trash Vortex To Become Habitable Island?
thefickler writes "The Pacific Ocean trash dump is twice the size of Texas, or the size of Spain combined with France. The Pacific Vortex, as it is sometimes called, is made up of four million tons of plastic. Now, there's a proposal to turn this dump into 'Recycled Island.' The Netherlands Architecture Fund has provided the grant money for the project, and the WHIM architecture firm is conducting the research and design of Recycled Island. One of the three major aims of the project is to clean up the floating trash by recycling it on site. Two, the project would create new land for sustainable habitation complete with its own food sources and energy sources. Lastly, Recycled Island is to be a seaworthy island. While at the moment the project is still more or less a pipe dream, it's great that someone is trying to work out what to do with one of humanity's most bizarre environmental slip-ups."
We already have that. It's call Los Angeles.
If they could slice it up like one of those "all edge pieces" brownie pans, everyone would get beachfront property!!
(1) Build a ****-load of WALL-E robots.
(2) Use them to fill the ocean with trash.
(3) Sell the land.
(4) ???
(5) Profit!
Or how about 1/7th the size of Brazil! Or maybe the size of 5 Ecuadors! Or the size of 1 1/10 Chads! This is fun! Who's got one?
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Stupid... but cool as hell. There is such a fine line between stupid and clever.
Look where it is now.
Did it move? :)
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Glue rocks to them.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I have a see issue, but my optometrist isn't Dutch.
Yeah...they hired Reckless Kelly to tow them to a more favorable position. :-)
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Small correction, we dried it out with pumps, powered by windmills
I I were an absolute pedant 'd point out that windmills grind corn, so the pumps were powered by wind turbines. In Norfolk they actually called them "wind pumps"
If I were an absolute pedant I'd point out that windmills used to grind corn. Nowadays they just stand around and creak and smell of old wood.
Say out loud: I'm an Aspie and I'm somewhat proud, I guess. Uh. Can I write an email in all caps instead? Hm...
Windmills do not work that way! Good night!
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Let me know when you figure out a method to glue 1 trillion individual molecules to pieces of rocks.
Buy lots of glue.
Write boring code, not shiny code!
Obviously, with 1 trillion little metal-foil tubes of superglue. Don't be daft.
This sounds like the greatest delivery system for recycling ever conceived. I can dump my trash into a river and it will eventually end up being recycled on an island in the middle of the Pacific. All transportation taken care of by Mother Nature.
I once experimented with kittens-per-trash-compactor, but it turns out to be close a constant since they are mostly water.