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Ocean Cleanup Foundation Plans Relaunch of Giant Plastic-Catching Trap (theoceancleanup.com)
On Friday the Ocean Cleanup project posted a status update after their giant U-shaped plastic trap lost a 60-foot section in January and had to be towed back to land:
During the first four months that the system was offshore, we were able to confirm many of the key features of the cleanup system. We also encountered some unscheduled learning opportunities; notably 1) the system hasn't been able to retain the plastic it caught, and 2) the floater suffered from a structural failure, causing an 18-meter end section to disconnect from the rest of the system, just before the end of 2018.
Its four months in the Pacific ocean validated much of their proposed solution, including the device's U-shaped configuration and its ability to orient with the wind. No harmful environmental impacts were observed, and in fact "Plastic concentrations in and around the system were much higher than in any other location in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch; and, although the periods the plastic was retained in the system were not yet of sufficient length, the system did capture and concentrate plastic."
The bottom line: they're going to try again: The engineering team is using these conclusions and results to update the design and prepare for relaunch. Using this thorough understanding, we hope to resolve the issues that are known to us and prove our technology, but we do realize that there may still be more unidentified challenges ahead. Only further proving the importance of returning to the patch as soon as possible, so we can continue to learn from and optimize the technology.... We now have all hands on deck and we aim to be ready for relaunch within a matter of months.
Its four months in the Pacific ocean validated much of their proposed solution, including the device's U-shaped configuration and its ability to orient with the wind. No harmful environmental impacts were observed, and in fact "Plastic concentrations in and around the system were much higher than in any other location in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch; and, although the periods the plastic was retained in the system were not yet of sufficient length, the system did capture and concentrate plastic."
The bottom line: they're going to try again: The engineering team is using these conclusions and results to update the design and prepare for relaunch. Using this thorough understanding, we hope to resolve the issues that are known to us and prove our technology, but we do realize that there may still be more unidentified challenges ahead. Only further proving the importance of returning to the patch as soon as possible, so we can continue to learn from and optimize the technology.... We now have all hands on deck and we aim to be ready for relaunch within a matter of months.
"Unscheduled learning opportunities"
Good lord take the sock out of your mouth you inhuman fuck
and their "who cares, it's muh right to shit where I eat" head-in-ass chicanery problems
it seems you could just have all the ships tow something around to catch and concentrate plastic. and as a bonus, if it ever breaks, you don't need to locate it and tow it back, it's already being towed, they can just disconnect it when it reaches port. i don't know if this would work for microplastics.
Version 1.0, aka the one that should never have left beta.
Version 2.0, the real 1.0.
Version 3.0, the one you should dread.
Plenty were quick to dismiss the prior plastic trap with quips and I-told-you-sos but science doesn't mean you get it right on your first try, it means you make you best guess, observe the result and modify/refine your answer. This is science and this is how science progresses, not by leaps and bounds but by millimeters.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Yes. It's called a "net."
You build and test. Figure out what works and what doesn't. What can be improved. Then make the changes and try again.
These days, it seems like it's make something, and ignore/hide anything that doesn't work right. Threaten/sue anyone who points out the problems.
The fact that the thing didn't even capture any plastic might just be a sign that you never should have put the design into full scale in the first place!
I know learning before you speak is a taboo here, but it turns out that the implementation here is not full-scale, as it is merely one of many units that would have go be made, it is merely the first onsite, and it is an initial attempt made with the expectation to understand the retention problems which they tested and examined with various means.
You could see this if you had read the report.
it seems you could just have all the ships tow something around to catch and concentrate plastic. and as a bonus, if it ever breaks, you don't need to locate it and tow it back, it's already being towed, they can just disconnect it when it reaches port. i don't know if this would work for microplastics.
It's almost as if you don't know there's other stuff in the sea that's supposed to be there.
You don't want to be trapping that other stuff in giant nets.
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There is a difference.
There is a point where you say 'this was a bad idea'. In this case, that point will be when they stop getting money in their spamhandling accounts.
Cost: Putting a useless hunk of plastic in the ocean. Wasting a lot of fuel.
Benefit: Free money from idiots.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Sounds like they attended the Elon Musk School of Doublespeak!
Seriously, though, good on them - and I hope they’re successful.
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It's a tarp.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
And, to make that worse, the stuff that's supposed to be there is quite big, but a lot of the plastic has broken down to be particles of a similar size to grains of sand. Designing a net that will catch small things but let large things pass is very hard!
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