Re:First 100k KG Removed from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
by baobabKoodaa on Monday July 25, 2022 @09:22PM
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This type of simple math is very misleading. The first 100Mg are of course easier to collect than the next 100Mg. And the next 100Mg after that will be even harder. Diminishing returns as the amount of garbage available for collection becomes increasingly rare.
Re:First 100k KG Removed from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
by throwaway81523 on Monday July 25, 2022 @08:22PM
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Most of the garbage is tiny little particles, so most of the bar codes would have disintegrated.
So with System 03 they would need to do 100 missions (and the missions take maybe a year?) but if they had funding for ten of these deployments and ran them simultaneously then the problem would be gone in 10 years (after complementary measures are taken to prevent the patch from growing).
I wonder if the International Maritime Organization could mandate that all fishing gear be marked with unique barcodes, and require countries to check that all boats heading out into international waters have recorded those barcodes against their ship registrations in a global public log. The biggest political problem with that would be allowing other countries to do inspections to ensure compliance.