Ingenious 19-year-old Develops Plan to Clean up Oceans in 5 Years

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Worried about the tiny fragments of plastic covering beaches and polluting food chains, 19-year-old Boyan Slat created the Ocean Array Plan, an ingenious project that could remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic from the world’s oceans in just five years.

With his concept called Marine Litter Extraction, Boyan Slat proposes a radical clean-up solution, for which he won the Best Technical Design award 2012 at the TU Delft University in the Netherlands, where he is a first-year Aerospace Engineering student. 

Slat’s idea consists of an anchored network of floating booms and processing platforms run by solar power that could be dispatched to garbage patches around the world.

It is estimated that through the selling of plastic retrieved over the five years, the project could be fully paid for.

As an underwater photographer and diver, he has always been passionate about applying technology in and around the oceans, especially as a witness to the environmental degradation beneath the surface.

Slat founded the Ocean Cleanup Foundation to ensure his project moves forward.

 

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Now his plan is coming true in a matte of few months

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After completing a $2 million crowdfunding campaign last September, he is ready to launch the project off the coast of Tsushima Island, between the East China Sea and Sea of Japan.

The system of solar-powered floating booms and processing platforms were dreamed up by Boyan Slatwhen he was a 19-year-old first-year Aerospace Engineering student at TU Delft University in the Netherlands.

The 6,500 foot boom will be the longest floating structure ever put to sea and will spend at least two years collecting plastic trash floating in the Korea Strait.

 

 

How ingenious of him

[T3ARS 4,132]

AMAZING!!!!!!

[HANZ 4,380]

we need more people like him in this world

applause 4 u

 

[Didymus 34,380]

AP but I can't find it

Anyway, genius idea.

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All this from a 19 year old, this could be revolutionary 

[Serendipity 7,821]

AP but I can't find it

Anyway, genius idea.

​Not exactly

The second part of the OP is just from yesterday

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/teens-plan-to-clear-plastic-garbage-nearly-ready/

 

The article states it's nearly done

[Didymus 34,380]

​Not exactly

The second part of the OP is just from yesterday

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/teens-plan-to-clear-plastic-garbage-nearly-ready/

 

The article states it's nearly done

​Oh cool

Now that I think of it, I think I just read the first part on a news site myself, not here

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​Oh cool

Now that I think of it, I think I just read the first part on a news site myself, not here

​i know that this might be new to some

So I merged it with the first article from last year

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It will also take him 5 years to get laid 

[Didymus 34,380]

It will also take him 5 years to get laid 

​Dude. No.

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It will also take him 5 years to get laid 

​How can you be so rude to someone like that

I doubt you could come up with something innovative like that

PS: The project's nearly done

Read what me and @Didymus talked about just now

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Amazing

 

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​Dude. No.

​You don't have to tell me that

Look at another comment of his

 

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Amazing idea. 

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​Dude. No.

​haha like when you said Tony's about to die, dude. no.