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Topic Title: The Ocean Cleanup Interceptor Topic Summary: Created On: 12/17/2019 10:45 AM |
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12/17/2019 10:45 AM
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12/19/2019 08:34 AM
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This is actually a river craft and is designed to clean up (intercept) trash flowing down a river toward the ocean. It goes up a river with a filter and conveyor belt scooping up trash and depositing the trash in an onboard dumpster. The mouth of the vehicle is maybe 20 ft wide? And when the dumpster is full it has to go to shore and get a new dumpster. This boat can sweep a 20ft wide swath of any given river for X amount of hours per day. How much trash gets by the boat depends on how big the river is and how fast the water is flowing. I do not see that this is a practical solution to the problem.
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12/20/2019 05:52 AM
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There is a floating boom that reaches out in direction and angle needed at the time it appears maybe 50/75 mtrs to direct floating debris into the 'stationary vehicle' and it's 20' wide mouth and conveyor. It also appears the vehicle is anchored against a shoreline accessible and ready to receive pickup vehicles loading from it's port or starboard sides that open to empty their ready dumpsters~
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12/20/2019 06:04 AM
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12/20/2019 01:37 PM
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We were told that the Problem is a plastic island the size of Texas in the Pacific ocean, their solution was to built and send a boat to pick up the plastic... The boat broke down. Now they say the solution is NOT to send a boat to the Pacific but to send boats to all the rivers. The solution is to moor boats with 50m booms in the rivers to actually catch the trash before it gets to the ocean. OK, But... a boat with a 50m boom can only get the trash in reach of the boom. Where in the Indian river would you put the boat to catch the 'trash'? The only place for a boat in this river is the inlet. only the crap going from the Indian River into the ocean isn't going to be picked up by a Boom and dumpster boat. It is chemical and biological, so this boat solution doesn't address chemical pollution, biological pollution and anything smaller than the filter. This is also not a solution for rivers that are a mile wide when they reach the sea. these boats are only catching the larger trash that happens to flow near their reach. IF, You are moored to a river bank and catch a dumpster full of garbage and have that dumpster hauled to the landfill, up river from you. And when ever it rains that same trash gets washed back into the river and you catch it again and again, how long will it take you to go to the landfill and FIX the landfill so that it stops putting trash in the river??? NOW substitute City and factory for landfill and GO and FIX the source. Keep the trash and chemicals OUT OF THE RIVERS. it is as impractical to wait for the trash to flow by you in the river and try to pick it as it is to send one big boat to the plastic pacific pollution patch.
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12/20/2019 01:57 PM
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Ummmmmmmmm, , , , , Somebodyelse does have a few good points but, it seems that some of his info is dated.
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12/21/2019 01:15 PM
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The problem is plastic getting into the ocean. The big gyres of it are but the biggest ugliest symptom, but by far not the most dangerous ( that would be microscopical pollution at the low end of the food chain) Slowing down the flow is the most effective fix, at the river is far too near the end, but it's part of it.
We are the source. We fix it by reusing and recycling and reducing. but that sounds socialist to some of you. ------------------------- "The truth is incontrovertible. malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill Edited: 12/21/2019 at 01:17 PM by WG |
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12/22/2019 04:45 AM
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