as small as a world and as large as alone

11:03am October 20, 2013

thegreenanole:

bemusedlybespectacled:

kerstiestormtrooper:

miss-nerdgasmz:

callurn:

acid-anarchism:

knowledgeandlove:

carlboygenius:

The Ocean Array Plan. Devised by 19yo Boyan Slat, this passive system, if installed, could clean up both The Great Pacific Garbage Patch & The North Atlantic Garbage Patch. Sort of like an anchored Roomba for the ocean…

Source: http://www.trueactivist.com/ingenious-19-year-old-develops-plan-to-clean-up-oceans-in-5-years/

“Although extensive feasibility studies are currently being conducted, it has been estimated that through the selling of plastic retrieved over the five years, the money would surpass the initial cost to execute the project. In other words, it may even be potentially profitable. Because the main deterrent to implement large scale cleanup projects is due to the financial cost, this solution could perhaps pave ways for future innovations of global cleanup to also be invented.”

This is huge.

I approve of this. Hopefully a system can be set up where all profits from this project go back into cleanup efforts

OCEAN ROOMBA

I’m nineteen and I’m wasting my life behind a computer screen on tumblr what the heck

oh man, this is so cool, 4 for you Boyan Slat, you go Boyan Slat

DO YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS

LIKE DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW BAD THE SITUATION IN THE GYRES IS RIGHT NOW

LIKE WHOA THIS IS ACTUALLY THE COOLEST THING

A fantastic idea and it looks like an adorable ray!

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