Republicans are destroying the world

[Selene]

Live now on C-Span the House is debating HR-1, the Full Year Continuing Appropriations Act 2011;

You know the one where the Satanic Republicans are going to starve your grandparents, pollute all the air on the planet, give all your money to BIG ____________[fill in the blank with your favorite corporation], kill your children and basically turn the planet into either a vast ash heap, or, a vast ocean with no life, but floating plastic polluted islands.

It is hard to believe that there are so many obese, ugly and basically illiterate members of Congress, but then again I have seen what legislation they produce.

Why you do not want to watch Congressional sausage being made!

Adam

Edited February 15, 2011 by Selene

[Selene]

That which man created, he can fix.

http://www.theoceancleanup.com/

company website - nice video and explanation.

Dutch engineering student Boyan Slat created The Ocean Cleanup concept with the aim of clearing the oceans of their plastic gyres - floating islands made of millions of pieces of waste that accumulate

Dutch engineering student Boyan Slat created The Ocean Cleanup concept with the aim of clearing the oceans of their plastic gyres - floating islands made of millions of pieces of waste that accumulate where currents converge. Ocean gyre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are currently five major gyres, containing millions of pieces of plastic per square kilometer that are constantly moving in a rotating formation. The gyres contribute to the estimated 500 million kilos of plastic waste currently floating in the world's oceans.

Previous proposals for removing this waste have involved using nets and basic trawling operations, but have been considered too expensive and possibly damaging to wildlife.

Slat's proposed solution involves 100 kilometers of floating filters that stay static, rather than being pulled through the water, and act as a barrier to collect waste.

"A cleanup of our oceans has always been deemed impossible, costing billions of dollars and thousands of years," said a statement from Slat's The Ocean Cleanup organization.

"[Our] solution is a concept to passively clean the oceans of plastic in just several years' time. The concept would utilize the natural currents to let the oceans clean themselves, in what would become the largest cleanup in history."

Described as "the largest structure ever deployed on the oceans", the barriers would be arranged in two 50-kilometre arms connected to a central platform, forming a V-shape.

These would only filter the top three meters of water, as Slat's studies found that this was where the highest concentration of plastic rubbish could be found in the world's oceans. The main currents run deeper than this, reducing the potential for "bycatch" - fish and other ocean life that get caught and die.

As plastic is caught in the array, the motion of the water would push it naturally towards the platform, where the debris can be extracted and sorted.

"Almost half of the plastic within the North Pacific Gyre - about 70,000,000 kilograms - can be removed within 10 years," it added.

According to Slat, a large amount of the plastic collected could then be recycled or turned into oil products using a chemical process called pyrolysis.

Slat first came up with the idea in 2011 when he was 16, after a diving holiday in Greece where he saw a huge amount of plastic waste in the water.

Ocean gyre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A gyre in oceanography is any large system of rotating ocean currents, particularly those involved with large wind movements. Gyres are caused by the Coriolis effec...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_gyre

[Brant Gaede]

Destroying the world: somebody's got to do it; we can't all have office jobs.

--Brant

and destroy the universe

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Michael