Extinction Rebellion

[aguero93:20]

And technological advances to clean up the oceans.

I reckon they'll have to clean themselves over the next few million years. They're after finding plastic deposits at over 2 miles of depth off the Kerry coast recently. Fuck knows how you'd clean that up without doing more harm than good. Same goes for the Fukushima Pacific leak. The most important thing is to stop adding to the damage. Another big thing is bees, they're vital and being killed off rapidly. I've seen one in the last two summers where I used to see hundreds. All you see now are wasps. Far too many insect species being killed off and it puts the entire ecosphere at risk.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Rather than some jumped-up yoghurt knitters angling for a scrap, AKA Extinction Rebellion, I prefer to follow the positive action group, 10:10 Climate Action (https://1010uk.org/about)

 

[hilts]

What methods would you prefer them to deploy?

I think he prefers a Chinese whispers approach. Save the planet pass it on, by the time it gets to me it will be your mums a whore pass it on:-)

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I reckon they'll have to clean themselves over the next few million years. They're after finding plastic deposits at over 2 miles of depth off the Kerry coast recently. Fuck knows how you'd clean that up without doing more harm than good. Same goes for the Fukushima Pacific leak. The most important thing is to stop adding to the damage. Another big thing is bees, they're vital and being killed off rapidly. I've seen one in the last two summers where I used to see hundreds. All you see now are wasps. Far too many insect species being killed off and it puts the entire ecosphere at risk.

I think robotics could provide a (very) long term solution to plastics in the oceans.

 

[aguero93:20]

I think robotics could provide a (very) long term solution to plastics in the oceans.

How are you powering them? No solar or wind power down there and hydro generation takes huge infrastructure. Batteries don't perform well under high pressure. Nuclear is unconscionable.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

And technological advances to clean up the oceans.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

How are you powering them? No solar or wind power down there and hydro generation takes huge infrastructure. Batteries don't perform well under high pressure. Nuclear is unconscionable.

The apogee of transport a little over two hundred years ago was boats propelled by sails. If we survive as a species, and Moore's law prevails for a further sustained period, I reckon it more likely than not that a technological solution to plastics in the oceans can be found.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

How are you powering them? No solar or wind power down there and hydro generation takes huge infrastructure. Batteries don't perform well under high pressure. Nuclear is unconscionable.

Tethered solar arrays floating on the surface.

 

[aguero93:20]

Tethered solar arrays floating on the surface.

2 miles deep mate. 2 miles. There aren't enough rare earths on this planet to justify 2 mile long tethers.

 

[aguero93:20]

The apogee of transport a little over two hundred years ago was boats propelled by sails. If we survive as a species, and Moore's law prevails for a further sustained period, I reckon it more likely than not that a technological solution to plastics in the oceans can be found.

That's the problem though. We're outgrowing Moore's Law at a rapid pace.