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from the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCHH5D74Fs dept.
A floating device sent to corral a swirling island of trash between California and Hawaii has not swept up any plastic waste—but the young innovator behind the project said Monday that a fix was in the works.
Boyan Slat, 24, who launched the Pacific Ocean cleanup project, said the speed of the solar-powered barrier isn't allowing it to hold on to the plastic it catches.
"Sometimes the system actually moves slightly slower than the plastic, which of course you don't want because then you have a chance of losing the plastic again," Slat said in an interview with The Associated Press.
A crew of engineers will reach the U-shaped boom Tuesday and will work for the next few weeks to widen its span so that it catches more wind and waves to help it go faster, he said.
The plastic barrier with a tapered 10-foot-deep (3-meter-deep) screen is intended to act like a coastline, trapping some of the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic that scientists estimate are swirling in the patch while allowing marine life to safely swim beneath it.
They should try hiring dolphins.
(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday December 19 2018, @08:50AM (2 children)
You're in bed, the women are getting very very wet. Squirting everywhere. But, it's O. K. It's not a problem -- if you have the Plastic. Or the Rubber Sheets.
You find a woman that looks incredibly hot. A 10. But you're thinking, "oh, what about the AIDS?" So many people getting the AIDS. If you saw Philadelphia -- the lawyer caught the AIDS. And, my lawyer caught the AIDS. So I had to fire him very quickly. Well, Rubber. You wear the Rubber and it's O. K. It's not a problem. Although, so many of my friends can't wear that one. Because they're allergic to it. And possibly someone will invent the Plastic Rubber. So everybody can have A LOT of fun.
You meet a woman -- or maybe it's your daughter -- she's very flat chested. And it's the only thing that stops her from being a 10. So you send her to the Doctor, you write him a check, he does his thing. And she comes out looking fabulous -- Plastic.
Australia, they're very smart. Because they kicked out Malcolm from his seat. And what they do at the beaches. You go to the beach there -- shark nets everywhere. Very hard for a shark to get in. Unlike Cape Cod -- so sad what happened there. When Arthur from Revere was killed in a HORRIFIC Shark Attack (RIP!!!). And the Huge Barrier is a lot like that. They made it for Plastic, it doesn't work for the Plastic, that's O. K. Because, possibly it can catch the Sharks. Every day we send our brave Fishermen out there. My oldest sons and so many guys. With the harpoons -- so dangerous. But the Huge Barrier is out there, floating. And the Sharks can't go through it. It closes in on them, it makes a circle. And they're caught like El Chapo (horrible guy). Brilliant!!!!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Freeman on Wednesday December 19 2018, @04:23PM (1 child)
Hint, there are Latex free Condoms. I.E. Plastic.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 19 2018, @07:45PM
He calls it a rubber, it must be made of rubber :)