• Plastic paradise: Scientists plan to turn Pacific Ocean waste into a floating island Rea
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[img]http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9742/article12905250a40f6880.jpg[/img] [img]http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/9128/article12905250a40f6e30.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/06/29/article-1290525-0A40F4E5000005DC-766_634x468.jpg[/img] [release]An island the size of Hawaii made entirely from plastic bottles could become the hottest postcode on earth, and is part of an incredible environmental vision for the future. CGI images show how a team of Dutch scientists plan to take 44 million kilos of plastic waste currently bobbing around in the Pacific Ocean and transform it into Recycled Island. Solar and wave energy will be used to sustain the island and its 500,000 inhabitants. A spokesman for the project said: 'The proposal has three main aims; cleaning our oceans from a gigantic amount of plastic waste; creating new land; and constructing a sustainable habitat. 'Recycled Island seeks the possibilities to recycle the plastic waste on the spot and to recycle it into a floating entity.' The Pacific Ocean currently holds the largest amount of plastic waste in the world. Ocean currents keep the plastic in the sea in giant rubbish dumps, which are fatal to sea life. Sea birds, like the giant Albatross, see the plastic as food and fish too eat smaller pieces of it. The team plans to recycle plastic on the spot - in the North Pacific Gyre - into hollow, floating blocks. These will become the foundation blocks to the 10,000 square kilometre (3,861 square mile) island. Alongside the modern city, planners hope to create a large area preserved for agriculture. The island will be designed as self-sufficient, providing food and work for the inhabitants. The spokesman added: 'Recycled Island should be seen as a unique opportunity to create a new floating habitat from scratch, yet at the same time the ocean is cleaned from a huge part of its plastic pollution.' [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1290525/Plastic-paradise-Scientists-plan-turn-Pacific-Ocean-waste-floating-island.html[/url] [/release] The gyres need to be cleaned, but this seems like a very ambitious way to do it. I was just going to harvest the stuff and melt them into blocks to be recycled but I guess this works too.
Holy shit, great Idea. Hope this actually gets completed.
Wow, now that's recycling. START DUMPING BOTTLES!
I'm gonna be slightly pessimistic and say there's no way in hell this could ever be done
I hope I see this done in my lifetime.
Mother fucking genius!! Reminds me of the song Toxic Garbage Island by Gojira :v: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAw5nWJBNrM[/media]
but it's the daily mail as the source oh god :(
[QUOTE=BaconDioxide;23064621]but it's the daily mail as the source oh god :([/QUOTE] Daily mail post a lot of bullshit?
[IMG]http://smotheredinhugs.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/pb.jpg[/IMG] Except in real life?
The biggest problem I'd see with this is that all the plastic in the gyre is near microscopic. Most of it is smaller than a bottle cap and just drifts right below the surface. Not all of it is plastic ether. You would have to skim a shitload of water to get enough to make a one ton block of pure plastic.
[QUOTE=OvB;23064666]Daily mail post a lot of bullshit?[/QUOTE] UK :foxnews: basically. There was a famous edition before the war praising hitler's dealing with you know what and the common joke (with more than a little truth) is that the editorial line hasn't changed much since.
[QUOTE=OvB;23064666]Daily mail post a lot of bullshit?[/QUOTE] It's pretty much safe to say that everything they write is exaggerated beyond recognition, for example "firework set off in local street" would end up being something akin to "Crude explosive device detonated by domestic terrorists to insight fear and panic in the british public, the muslims are currently assumed to have detonated the bomb" See the last part I'm not even taking the piss, they've done that shit before.
[QUOTE=OvB;23064666]Daily mail post a lot of bullshit?[/QUOTE] The Daily Mail are the British equivalent of Fox News. Enough said.
:haw:
This is fucking awesome
[QUOTE=OvB;23064666]Daily mail post a lot of bullshit?[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI[/media]
It's like Rapture but not underwater and without all that creepy drug shit Who would govern it?
Yah this project won't even start. Although it would be cool if it did, and even cooler if it finished.
[QUOTE=Zeero;23065589]Yah this project won't even start. Although it would be cool if it did, and even cooler if it finished.[/QUOTE] Stranger shit has happened man. Dubai has already built some of their own islands by dredging up rock and sand from the sea floor and piling it up.
Would be bigger than the states Delaware and Rhode Island.
Thats actually pretty cool. This would be a marvel to human engineering. This would just be incredible to take our waste and build self sustainable living environments in the sea.
Right. So you're gonna ship billions of dollars worth of equipment into the middle of the Pacific, process tons of water for every pound of plastic, do so over every inch of an area larger than Texas, and assemble it all into a massive piece of structural engineering capable of withstanding everything the ocean can throw at it. Oh, and you intend to populate it with half a million people who will produce almost nothing yet import almost everything they need to survive. Excuse me if I view this as highly unlikely.
I'm sorry, That's fucking awesome. but extremely unlikely.
There's no way this is gonna get any further than concept art, but it's a very cool concept.
[i]We've been spendin' most our lives livin' in a Plastic paradiseee[/i]
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[QUOTE=Roskarnolkov;23066985][IMG_thumb]http://cdn2.knowyourmeme.com/i/30155/original/i_came_anime.jpg[/IMG_thumb][/QUOTE] what's wrong with his mouth
This better happen or I will be disappoint with the world.
[QUOTE=Ganoric Mank;23067047]what's wrong with his mouth[/QUOTE] It's an anime mouth.
[img]http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/encyclopediaimages/t/tr/try2004.gif[/img] Still waiting for the pyramid in Tokyo Bay.
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