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According to the Intel firm, for being the founder of The Ocean , a company that through its technology could clean the largest garbage island in the Pacific North, to convert it into synthetic fuel. His idea was born when he was 16 years old, on a visit to Greece where he found more plastic bags in the sea than fish while diving. “Everyone told me: Oh, there's nothing you can do about it, once the plastic gets into the oceans. I wondered if that was true. For a high school science project I spent half a year understanding the problem itself, and why it is so difficult to clean. This eventually led to the birth of the concept of The Ocean ,” explained Slat via email to EL FINANCIERO. Its technology consists of deploying at least 100 kilometers of a network in that area of the ocean, which would allow 42 percent of the garbage to be collected in 10 years, estimated at 70 million 320 kilograms of mostly plastic waste.
Conventionally, using boats and personnel, collecting all the garbage would take 79 thousand years. However, the project goes further. The young man America Mobile Number List and the companies with which he has an alliance proposed a method to take advantage of the rescued waste called pyrolysis, which would allow the plastic to be recovered to make fuel, or even use it as compost. This chemical process consists of the decomposition of plastic products at high temperatures, without releasing chemicals or contaminants into the environment. Pyrolysis can be used to produce diesel-like liquid fuel from solid biomass or plastics. According to the associated companies, it has been demonstrated that the production of fuel from marine waste presents the possibility of obtaining a yield of 77 percent, greater than the 53 percent generated in the normal gasoline production process.
It's definitely a pretty simple idea, and I think that's one of the reasons why no one had thought about it, because we somehow get the idea that a complicated problem requires a complicated solution." Successful project Slat raised $2.2 million through the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter and the dissemination allowed him to add several specialists, scientists and collaborators to his team. The entrepreneur points out that for now his intention is to carry out the operation of cleaning the “garbage patch in the ocean” and looking towards 2020 to begin obtaining economic benefits from the extraction of the garbage. Our goal is to begin cleaning up the Pacific garbage patch in 2020. The ultimate goal is to have cleanup systems in all the world's rivers and oceans in about 5 to 10 years from now. In 2016, the young entrepreneur will begin a pilot test in an area of the Chinese Sea.
Conventionally, using boats and personnel, collecting all the garbage would take 79 thousand years. However, the project goes further. The young man America Mobile Number List and the companies with which he has an alliance proposed a method to take advantage of the rescued waste called pyrolysis, which would allow the plastic to be recovered to make fuel, or even use it as compost. This chemical process consists of the decomposition of plastic products at high temperatures, without releasing chemicals or contaminants into the environment. Pyrolysis can be used to produce diesel-like liquid fuel from solid biomass or plastics. According to the associated companies, it has been demonstrated that the production of fuel from marine waste presents the possibility of obtaining a yield of 77 percent, greater than the 53 percent generated in the normal gasoline production process.
It's definitely a pretty simple idea, and I think that's one of the reasons why no one had thought about it, because we somehow get the idea that a complicated problem requires a complicated solution." Successful project Slat raised $2.2 million through the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter and the dissemination allowed him to add several specialists, scientists and collaborators to his team. The entrepreneur points out that for now his intention is to carry out the operation of cleaning the “garbage patch in the ocean” and looking towards 2020 to begin obtaining economic benefits from the extraction of the garbage. Our goal is to begin cleaning up the Pacific garbage patch in 2020. The ultimate goal is to have cleanup systems in all the world's rivers and oceans in about 5 to 10 years from now. In 2016, the young entrepreneur will begin a pilot test in an area of the Chinese Sea.
