19-year-old Student Develops Ocean Cleanup Array...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19-year-old Boyan Slat has unveiled plans to create an Ocean Cleanup Array that could remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic waste from the world’s oceans. The device consists of an anchored network of floating booms and processing platforms that could be dispatched to garbage patches around the world. Instead of moving through the ocean, the array would span the radius of a garbage patch, acting as a giant funnel. The angle of the booms would force plastic in the direction of the platforms, where it would be separated from plankton, filtered and stored for recycling.


Read more: http://inhabitat.com/19-year-old-student-develops-ocean-cleanup-array-that-could-remove-7250000-tons-of-plastic-from-the-worlds-oceans/

[ms liberty]

1. Awesome...K&R...n/t

[shenmue]

2. Yay!

Give him a prize!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Oh, ABSOLUTELY!

[Sherman A1]

4. K&R

[Autumn]

5. Wow, what a brilliant mind.

rec

[southernyankeebelle]

8. I'm so hopeful for our generations to come. Smart and go getters. Just what america's

future needs. If republicans don't stifle their creativity.

[Autumn]

9. Our young people are so smart, they really are our hope for

the future.

[southernyankeebelle]

11. They sure are.

[patricia92243]

6. I hope he has a patent on it so his idea won't get stolen.

Seems like a wonderful idea - and only 5 years to clean up years of waste. I hope we hear more about this one.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. I hope so too.

I've been hoping someone would come up with a solution, and here we are!

[Initech]

10. Man I wish I had that kind of ingenuity when I was 19!

[Lionel Mandrake]

12. Sounds promising. K&R

I hope it gets funded, and I hope it works.

[Zax2me]

13. How COOL!

Love this story.

[progressoid]

14. Coolio.