A 22-year-old has raised $30M to fund his idea behind cleaning up plastic in the ocean
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2017
- Boyan Slat's "Ocean Cleanup" machine is projected to clean 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, one of the most polluted areas of ocean, in five years. The first system will be deployed in 2018.
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give me 30 mill and I will go out in a rubber dinghy and collect that shit myself
skeochJ1 Thats what im fucking saying
lmao i'll hire 1000 guys iwth rubber dinghy's and by the end of hte year it'll all be cleaned.
Why 30 million dollars? It's just floating fucking pipe...
QuickLoad lmao your 1000 guys are gonna look like ants in the ocean
MrSirFluffy research money for boat
why not just empty the ocean and fill it up with new water? my local hardware store has a water pump half price this week
frank1971ification lmao
Lol
frank1971ification ikr people r so dumb
Calster your dumb LOL
@@OffCalster you just got R/WOOOSSSSSHHHHHH
Finally somebody using money wisely than just spending it for v bucks
This guy is probably a no skin lol
@@keep6839 sadly I do have skins and I regret it
Skins are dope waddduuu uuu meann
@@nellycruz6455 I know they are cool but spending actual money for them? No
xLaw Bans why are WE TALKING ABOUT FORTNITE
All the donators received a plastic bag full of plastic goodies.
Just Bodewes 😂😂😂🤣
Oh the irony
i didnt :(
**donates a dollar** heres your plastic bag lmao
Just Bodewes the point is not the use of the plastic it’s the disposal of it.
scientists: *working for 30 years on how to clean up the ocean*
22y rold: "we get a big ol pipe"
scientists: omg no way :O
the fuck we paying these shit heads for if this nigga just helped solve a world wide problem at 22
butters 99 Lol these motherfuckers can only clean up a small portion of the ocean. Don't act like they solved a problem just like that.
TheFruityKing just proves my point that a 22yr old had presentable results over some thing we've needed fixed for a while now, how the fuck are they *now* coming up with this shit
butters 99 what do you mean results these haven't even been tested yet
butters 99 Because obviously a project of this magnitude requires testing. No scientist is gonna accept this project without testing the idea first.
30M raised to clean the planet. and yesterday an asian guy bought a painting for 110.5M ...... what a joke rich people are.
Daniel Pietnik now think about how much is spent making clearly bad movies. Imagine the same amount of money for Jupiter Ascending going to this kind of work. We as a species need to pull our heads out of our asses.
Well listen, I'm not saying donate 110.5M to this.
But think of what we could achieve if everyone who has this kind of money AT LEAST donated 1M... if you can pay 110M for a ugly childish looking type of "ART" I'm sure you can donate 1M to save earth..
But that is never gonna happen because rich people only think about themselves.
Daniel Pietnik lol trueeeeee
VizualProduction have you looked at the painting , it dosent even look that good looks like some robotic painted picture by an amateur
That's because not every one cares about the planet. Some only care about how to get richer.
i'm not a professional on ocean trash picking 101 but this guy gave up college and started working everyday for years at an age which many people just spends their days partying themselves to death. fine, you may find a hole in his solution just watching a video of it but he deserves all the money you guys make just because he's trying to do something about it.
Trang Hoàng Aaaah im not a trashionator 101 either but they’re kids without limbs and family’s who deserve money soo get out of youtube please
Conformism seems to be a type of cancer...so, yeah.
Roland Camcena but he’s using the money for a good cause. Don’t u think cleaning the ocean is important!? We need to protect the environment!
yeah too bad most of the money is going to be paying for operational costs of his 'research project' and theres no guarantee its even going to work and he doesnt have the management or accounting teams like a big business would have to responsibly spend the money. Idea people come up with ideas but very few have the skills or means of following through to the end with their ideas. Just look at all the failed kickstarter projects
That shouldn't stop you from trying. Even if you fail you will get tons of experience out of it. And that experience could prove valuable the next time you start another Project.
The real question is how you get the micro plastic...
@@pepehimovic3135 Nah, it will kill all the fish heating up and it can't be done that quickly because the ocean is HUGE you can't just put it on a frying pan and and heat it
@@irtazahussain7940 He's not serious...
Use a micro pipe then
@ِ r/woooosh
Irtaza H. r/Wooooosh
All this at 22? ....thanks for reminding me how much of a Looser i am #FML
daddy mack such a loser you don't know how to spell loser you dyslexic fucking loser.
you are so Classy...your Mom must be so proud
daddy mack everyone has a purpose your purpose might not be finding new ways to help the earth thats all
daddy mack well you can't even spell loser right so I am guessing you are on the right track.
it takes one to know the proper spelling...hahahaha you Jerk off!!
Those were some tiny waves they tested on. Wait until a storm hits and the waves toss the trash right over that little tube. also what does a ship do? drive over it?
D3rpy B34n GPS signal?? Totally... I think you mean Radar, and chances are this wouldn't show on Radar, secondly... ships can't just drive over this dummy. Don't comment when you literally know nothing on the subject. Jesus Christ everyone is an expert on a keyboard!
I think they'll just go around the storm if necessary. Also, I think that although some of the garbage will go through, most of it will stay. Nothing is perfect and this will definitely help make the oceans cleaner. Also, the ship is what's pulling the pipe. It's not gonna be going over it.
No, nothing is pulling the pipes.. it says it moves with the waves. The boat in the video is only collecting the plastic and it does so periodically.
..."won't show up on radar". Same problem with legions of tiny watercraft...that's what the corner reflector on the mast is for.
Exactly my thoughts
Is there an update to this? We're half way through 2018, and curious if this has been tested yet
Savior .S apparently he wasted the money on fortnite
@@redkings6976 😂
The project has officially been begun in the real environment since yesterday, September 11st 2018.
Quân Kim “11st” sorry I couldn’t stop laughing
This project was launced in the begginning of August. Soooo, ther has allso been articles with a few updates.
What an absolute legend. He deserves more recognition for this.
If we stopped making our plastics from crude oil and used vegetable oil, we could produce biodegradable plastic.
JOHN DAVIS true. try telling that to the crude oil companies who make tons of profit off of extraction.
elementssci fy Good luck with producing enough "vegetable" oil to cover the demand of plastic manufacturing industry.
Biodegradable plastic is a myth. It will become microplastic faster but still takes hundreds of years for them to be totaly gone.
Yes, and how would replacing the entire plastic industry by growing grops be good for the environment? Even more needed space, forests cut, fertilizer needed, CO2 expended and millions wasted to increase our agriculture.
JOHN DAVIS How about instead of waiting for someone else to do it you do it. Create something incredible that the world could use the mind is endless but only you can act on I️t.
I peed in the ocean... :-(
James Crud it's people like you that make the world burn at a faster rate. you should be ashamed of yourself
James Crud I swallowed ocean water.... Oh God.
James Crud thats not poluting pee is clean tho you are disgusting
James Crud. I took a shit in the ocean.
Kenny Ji doesn’t work like that
He is one of them who are caring for our earth👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Doesn't cover the deep stuff and the micro-plastics though. I expect more plastic goes in the ocean each year than we are taking out of it anyway. We need a find a way to destroy plastic and stop using it completely. Then figure a way to filter the micro-plastics out.
This method will only buy some time to be honest.
in 2060 or 2070 we will not have anymore oil so no more plastic
no more oil, which means large demand for it, which then means the value of money drops while the value of oil increases twentyfold, which then turns into rioting, which then turns into a calm, which then everyone freaks out because we can't do much at all now, as oil is a major product, then manufacturing slows down, which means less product, which means higher value for many products, money deflates again, a probable overthrow of presidential power, the democratic-republic then turns into a probable people's communist party, the US then falls like the Soviet Union.
That's a pretty accurate representation of what's going to happen basically.
@@surreal9558
May i restate your name please?
Some people are actually researching for that to happen.
@@surreal9558 Oof I got a new fear
Just build a wall
And make Mexico pay for it
Hyena Studios and make the fish pay for it
Educate yourself to some physics then comment. The comment section isn't for doofuses.
But its a free county
MAKE THE MERMAID PAY FOR IT!!!!
1:05 aaaaand im getting anxious
Plastic litter: You'll never catch me, traitor!
Plastic cleanup tube: We'll see about that...
So thankful for what he’s doing .
$25 million in his pocket and $5 million for the actual project.
I'd do the same tbh
Hi there daddy! You are very handsome😜
none of your business
The hell?
More like 30 Million used as collateral to get a bank to add annother 270 Million to fund a 300 Million project .
Not like anyone's even doing anything worth any money at all for this shit, even if that was true, at least he is doing something effective rather than people sitting at home complaining while they are the ones reasonable for what's happening
If you want to clean up the Earth you can start by burning San Fransicso
greenbottle500 and Toyota/foreign vehicles
no
greenbottle500 tf is wrong with San fransico?
skateski how are we "faggarts"?
greenbottle500 😂
This man is pure hearted. God bless him. He cares about the planet.
That's actually super simple wow. I'm more amazed no one thought of this earlier
meanwhile, I'm trying to break even financially XD
provide something of a value to ppl around you, they will pay you... trust me, it works
i've been kind of working on a game, but I must work on the self discipline to keep working on it.
And what happens to the gathered trash? Won't it fill out landfills like crazy? If so, majority would likely end up back in the ocean...
WHOS YO DADDY 8 no, but good try
They want to recycle a much as possible
WHOS YO DADDY 8
Most garbage can be recycled. Other stuff can be either melted down (and repurposed) or incinerated.
Use it for construction
It is possible with some money invested in.
currently saw a video somewhere that people gathered trash and gave them to a company that grinds garbage (manually) and makes bricks out of it... it could solve housing projects for some reason..
Im so happy ive seen 4 different methods being implemented and in use.There hope and now action to fulfill that hope
Thank you, Boyan.
I appreciate this effort so much..and hope it has a beautiful outcome..😘🌎
urmm its 2018 now.. soon 2019.. sooo? any update ?
ITS A JOKE IDEA..AND IT FAILED
*The Amazon is burning*
It's refreshing to know a young person gives a shit about something more than his cell phone! THANK YOU
This needs to be shared with others and we need to be kept up to date on the research
His dream came true 🙂
Bet his dad is rich.
peter j nope!
k then so how does a 22 year old save 30mil? only way is investors
That's how almost everybody gets known. Lots of people have talent that no one will ever know exist, no matter what they do.
His father gave him a small loan of 30 million dollars
i beat your jealous
it's always the simple ideas that are the best, Brilliant!
I’m just glad someone is finally doing something
*OCEAN MAN TAKE ME BY THE HAND LEAD ME THROUGH THE LAND THAT YOU UNDERSTAND*
notice how there are no pictures of it actually working
Dog notice how you're an idiot
Dog fucking dumbass smh
Hey I also have this great idea that involves some anchors and motors and a net, where's my 30 million dollars? Sure I don't have a working prototype, sure the math still isn't behind it, sure this wasn't designed to clean the most densely polluted areas even though it's supposed to clean out the pollution but I should definitely get double digit millions right? Oh also it only MIGHT work but we should possibly know more than a year from now. Haha dip shits no working prototype and substantial undeniable tests no funding, this project has neither. But please wallow in your hate and ignorance keyboard warriors I drink your anger and tears.
Dog to be fair they did show the development of the tubs in the video (if it wasn't this guys stuff then I don't know what it was) that being said, I don't know if Business Insider didn't show any trash collection testing or if he didn't run any.
+OK! But then again. I'm not sure what you're trying to get at and half of what you said made no sense, so please clarify what you're trying to say. I am guessing you're not very good at the English language due to your fragmented sentences that are hard to understand. Also thank you for those sources but my point still stands if anything you fortified it by showing me he's backed by companies that only would invest in such products if he has inside connections that require a shit ton of materials to put into effect this making an expensive product; not an actual good invention. Also once again the source you provided trying to say it "works" showed no schematics or simulations with explained parameters and variable to justify this will even remotely work at "cleaning the ocean". Then last but not least to put the nail in your coffin yes some hypothetical subjects they touch on could work but they only have a fraction of it working and not on a life sized scale either. So once again please give me double digit millions of dollars for my "this might work in 2018 plan please". You tried though.
Looking forward to hearing more about this
Wow hats off to this guy
sorry for my ignorance but the trash that will be collected where will it go then?
Marie wang maybe to a recycling station you nimrod.
Eleanore Johnson it would be much easier if in the first place all the plastic go to the recycling station but at the end since its too much hassle they throw it in the ocean...i think this is the first problem to resolve...but this is just my opinion...
They throw it to the beach.
scharrk lol! Great idea
it will be recycled and thrown back into the Ocean.
This plan's GENIUS!
When i was 22, i lost my 22 years
So much respect
We are looking forward to your invention, thank you so much
*Let's put plastic into the ocean to clean plastic from the ocean*
how come u everywhere :0
Dumb point, it's a tiny piece of plastic compared to the amount and pollution in the sea
C͎e͎e͎b͎e͎r͎n͎o͎o͎d͎l͎e͎ because he wants more subs so he just comments everywhere
The problem is you cant control all people in being a righteous or disciplined
I mean yeah but what your plan huh.
The next thing we might need to do is clean up all the "space junk" in orbit.
Outdoor Endurance That's toughy considering that there are more than 170 million debris smaller than 1 cm (0.4 in), to say nothing about millions of pieces larger than that.
Absolutely brilliant
A good person right here.
So what happens if a boat runs over it?
then the kid must beg for trump a small loan of 30 million dollars
the ship sinks
they put a plastic patch on it lol
it's a plastic pipe right so would it no just go down then bob back up?????
Deadly Thang then it gonna recycle that boat
why dont we just empty the ocean and pure new water into it?
wtf people just thinkkkk
All the fish will die...
Performing Dog Feelsbadman when you make a good joke but only 8 year olds who think they’re smart read the comment :(((
@@nachiemi196 lmaoooo feelsbad
@Michael ROBLOX But that means no more bacon,burger, and other meat;(
@@phelix3395 them put it in a bowl. I'm so smart😉😉
May god bless him 🙏🏼♥️
Hope for the future people like him 💓✌
Anyone know how this thing is doing now?
www.theoceancleanup.com/
if you look closely, you can see that theres no evidence that the project working
Naft_ 39 their is,dumbass
@@s209_3 * there* is, and can u show me wher
@@s209_3 That's ironic af because it's there not their.
@@isaklarsson5241 You as well its where not wher.
@@maskedshinobi4314 that's the joke lol. I point out someone's typo but ironically make one myself
This just launched. Very happy to hear.
This is the positive shit I wanna see more of instead of the news killing me slowly with fear
I don't see this making much of a difference in sea pollution but I guess some difference is better than none.
Matjaž Bajt How is 50% in 5 years not much of a difference?
+Teus I don't believe for 1 second that that number is anywhere close to reality. That number is so optimistic considering how the thing works that I can't call it anything but a good way to sell the idea. If a good salesman wanted to sell this to someone he would publicly estimate it might clean up around 50% of the trash in that area according to whatever and he will have their attention but in reality the salesman would know it most likely won't happen and I think this is just the case.
I mean how many devices would be necessary for a 50% cleaning in 5 years, there is no number there, not even an estimate only the sentence "Computation models show a full-scale deployment will lead to a 50 %
reduction of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 5 years’ time. ". So a full scale deployment is what, 100 of these things, 1000, 2000, 10 000.. So I guess if they go on with a project and don't reach the 50% cleaning in 5 years then I guess we can only blame that the full scale deployment wasn't achieved even if we don't know what that means in numbers.
The idea is simple, cost effective and just great in general but it will take a much longer time to reduce the trash in that area of the sea and also I believe the current prototype model will certainly be upgraded due to the flaws with testing. You gotta test things before you can perfect them.
Matjaž Bajt Only one way to find out I gues.
let's be pessimistic and do nothing about it. we will be right in the end.
Waste of money cus u will clean like 0,0001% of the ocean with that
you're right!.. but it's a start
people are spending millions on garbage when they could be spending millions on stuff like this
Love his work..
We're with you!!!!! :)
I actually pitched this idea at my school for a project and got the school to donate 1000 dollars to this.
nice, what did you buy with it?
I didn't get the money the parent council chose my presentation out of the 100 or so others and donated it.
But where is all the garbage going to go.....
The plan is recycle all the plastic and sell it. If the project goes even half as well as they hope, then the returns and profits will be incredible to say the least.
We've gotten better at being able to grind down plastics to re-purpose them. Anything from plastic carpets to making bricks to build houses in third world countries. It's interesting; recycling this could do a multiplicative good in the world.
Buzzman330 It will be thrown into freshwater lakes and rivers where it won't even bother anyone.
That was so awesome
We need more people like this
Just use a Vacuum.Whats so hardto clean the ocean ?
Don't see the floating pipe idea being very effective in during tropical storms or when ships drive over it. A better idea will be to free all the dolphins held in captivity and train them to clean it up. I need 35 mil to free the dolphins and buy baskets. Anybody want to invest in my idea?
Werner Bruin I mean it cool but not functional
A dolphins mouth has no flexibility
Nathan Lewis this is an 11 month old comment made for laughter, move along.
Light Saber that comment isn't even a joke!
Nathan Lewis how old are you
congrats bro! you've made your dream into reaility. i watched your video years ago and i knew they would fund you.
Thank you
Plastic garbage kills a lot of marine animals who try to ingest it or become trapped in it
Kudos
Forever grateful
animals > mankind
Tucker Simpson haha
humans are animals .....
I have an idea on how to solve global warming we take large white sheets and put it over the glaciers or over ocean we don't use to reflect more sunlight away from the earth
funny lol
+gopi I'm legitness
White sheets? Dude, with 30M you could install a huge ass AC unit and cooldown the world and in winter, you turn up the heat. Win-win
Install huge ass AC woah thats cool lets make 1 big AC so the Earth climate and wind system changed drastically and lets see later what happen. Global warming solution or the end of the world :P
MrQuequito
Nice one.
And what powers the AC? Hmm. Electricity? Okay. How do you get that much electricity? Power plants.
AC of that size would radiate a LOT of heat
SOME PEOPLE ARE AWESOME. THX TO THIS BOY FROM HOLLAND STUDENT IN INGENIERING WHO ASKED SPONSORING ON THE INTERNET AND IT WORKS BECAUSE PLASTICS'S DENSITY IS TO LOW TO GO DEEP IN THE OCEANS. IT'S FLOATING ON A CERTAIN DEEPNESS. THANS A MILLION FOR HUMANITY AND EARTH TO HIM. AND THANKS A MILLION TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE HIM THE MONNEY.
Woah! Those 1,000 people who disliked probably thought it was WRONG to throw away trash..
Can’t believe 1 thousand people disliked this vid
just hire a maid to clean the ocean lol
Verdraux how about you clean thinks it’s easy
nah, i couldn't do it myself, there's too much satire in the ocean for me clean up. a maid could probably do it though.
More like hire a meMAID to clean the ocean amirite?
Harvard wants to know your location
We need more people like this... the ones who want to take care of our planet and not destroy it
I really support this idea and hope we can clean our one and only beautiful earth. We won’t have a second chance.
The damage has been done. It is out of your hands now...
t39big trees I'm afraid it is...
Yeah let's all just give up and kill ourselfs right now!
...
Wounds heal my friend.
Mad Tad We shall see..
No we shall not just see we shall change. Get active - you personally!
Now I don't have to feel so bad about throwing plastic bottles into the oceans.
agree
I mean that's a dick move,you should feel bad about that
I mean why does everybody think this is NOT a joke. Are you all stupid?
I know right, people now a day take things very seriously. Obviously, it's sarcastic. There is no doubt that the technology will create a positive impact on the environment, and we should always take care and respect our earth. Are you all happy now?
Betty Brown You're clearly so dumb as to not understand sarcasm. Lmao you had to edit your comment
Aaaand it's out! Just left San Francisco Bay, off for testing and then the Great Pacific Garbage Patch! Good luck, hungry hungry ocean-faring plastic cleaner!
Not enough like buttons to tap, amazing young man good to see some one shaming the world with his I'm not waiting for oceans to die before any one does anything, deserves a Nobel prize
It won't work, over 90% of the garbage in the patch is deep underwater not at the surface. He won't be making even a dent. A bunch of people who don't understand how the patch works just wasted their money because they heard "Green".
"90 percent of the garbage in the patch is deep underwater". Pull statistics
out of your ass much? Those folks have done numerous studies, one involving a fleet of 30 vessels, dragging nets/bags and gathering data. The KNOW that most of the plastics are near the surface; they have to be...it's a matter of density...you see, but that would be one of those pesky "SCIENCE" things. MUCH easier to just keep making "stuff" up.
You are a dumbfuck
Pretty sure plastic floats? at least most plastics.
There are some miniscule pieces of plastic that sink slightly below the service yeah, but the majority of plastic, and all the big pieces float
Can we try to cure cancer and diseases or even death instead of trying to save the sea animals?
+No Lackin Cancer can be cured someday but unfortunately or fortunately death is a disease without a cure.
I guess you must like plastic in your seafood eh? Plastic pollution is as much of a human health issue as it is an environmental issue.
+No Lackin
We have a lot of people. Why can't we do all three at once, like we are doing now?
We need visionaries like him.
Wow hes a great man
I have a better way to keep the oceans clean and it free don't pollute
blakemerc sith i really want to know it
fact: We have only found 1% of the plastic that is in the ocean.
Source?
Not true lol
trust me
Why do people have to politicize everything?
incredible! let's get to it America!
Genius. This guy is really doing it.
first
Nutters Gaming no one cares you dumbass
If no one would care you wouldn't be writing him because you just didn't care. Illogical beings those hoomans.
No your not
Your profile picture explains a lot.
+Xûr Gaming who's ?
Glad to hear something positive is happening amidst all the doom and gloom we're bombarded with daily! This is the kind of youth activism that really matters.
cleaning up the mess is harder than creating it. Thinking before you do is often the best solution to many problems.
We need more people in the world like this.
God I love economics.
This is why individuals can do more than the government ever could.
Great effort .
this is the kinda people we need
I really hope this works for sure
amazing
I hope this Will in all country
Excellent!!..
Why have I not seen this all over the news???!!!!!!!
When you wake up in the morning to the sound of gardeners mowing and hedging, now you know where all those bits of f..kin nylon string goes!