A Faster Way to Clean the Oceans: System 002 Technology Update | Cleaning Oceans | The Ocean Cleanup
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- Опубликовано: 11 июн 2024
- On Monday, July 5th, 2021 we gave a detailed update on the design of our next ocean cleanup system, System 002 at the annual IMarEST (Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology) conference. Subscribe to our RUclips channel to stay updated: bit.ly/371k8sN
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Chapters:
00:00 Boyan introduces the presentation and agenda
00:44 Introduction of the speakers: Arjen Tjallema (Technology Manager) and Bruno Sainte-Rose
(Lead Computational Modeller)
01:18 The Ocean Cleanup mission: why and how
06:23 The main challenges of cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
07:45 The evolution of our ocean technology
13:42 Going from feasible to scalable: what scalable means
15:25 4 parameters to determine a good cleanup system
16:51 System 001/b performance assessment based on the 4 parameters
17:17 Limitations of a passive concept
21:43 Solution: an active approach
26:20 Active steering explained
36:50 Active concept performance estimates
40:51 Testing System 002 scale model in the North Sea
42:02 First large-scale system, System 002, parameters
43:37 System 002 test program
45:57 Ocean system evolution and cleanup roadmap
49:40 Environmental management
51:24 Our ambition: carbon neutrality
52:50 Environmental management plan
54:33 what are we going to do with the plastic we catch?
56:12 Summary and closing remarks by Boyan
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Trash accumulates in five ocean garbage patches, the largest one being the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, located between Hawaii and California. If left to circulate, the plastic will impact our ecosystems, health, and economies. Solving it requires a combination of closing the source, and cleaning up what has already accumulated in the ocean.
The ocean is big. Cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch using conventional methods - vessels and nets - would take thousands of years and tens of billions of dollars to complete. After fleets of The Ocean Cleanup systems are deployed into every ocean gyre, combined with source reduction, The Ocean Cleanup projects to be able to remove 90% of ocean plastic by 2040.
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You're not yelling at white people or blaming "Climate change" on all the countries that pollute the least, so don't expect any recognition or rewards for your work.
@@thelastword4616 They make their own rewards. They are non profit for a reason.
Ok so I got an idea hear me out then if you like let me know you're thoughts.
So as you do this you should consider some small pipes that go down in the water to add o2.
Why 1 if you place them 4 to 6 feet from the Bottom and its 2 acers by 2 acers.
Why well 2nd is it will help move micro plastics up to surface and if its 2 by 2 acers any plastic bags might get enough air to float to the top for you to grab.
3 a good side effect is the added o2 will increase o2 in water as well cool and that means more fish can breathe more Plankton = more small fish to feed of them then more big fish to eat them.
4 since this should increase wild life you can now study them easier and get better readings.
Would be cool if cargo ships could pick up plastic as the travel back and forth. Not sure how but I can imagine them dragging a net or something like that... would be nice if big businesses like that cared about more than money and would make clean up a part of their business model. We have been kicking the can down the road for too long. What really needs to happen is recycled plastics needs to be less expensive than new plastic so companies will value them and start buying the plastic like they do scrap metal, then the poor will pick up everything to trade it in for cash, everyone would start cleaning up then.
@@infiniteadam7352 The problem with using net is that they will catch wild life too. You don't want that. More biodegradable plastic would be great of course. Just dump that to compost and and bacterias will take care of the rest.
It's one thing to care, it's another to try to do something about it ... and then keep on trying until you get it right. Ocean Cleanup is one of the unbending rays of light that gives me a little hope for our future.
Many thanks for your kind and inspiring words, Gee! As Boyan mentioned in the Q&A, we could've given up countless of times in the past. All the ups and downs we've experienced were simply part of the process of going against all odds. We're getting there! Here's the question, for your curiosity: ruclips.net/video/b0ANxrv_R7Q/видео.html
This comment is gold and a sentiment shared by many.
Absolutely agree
Yes, absolutely! This team is heroic and role models for a sustainable future.
@@theoceancleanup kepp upthe good work we shall prevail life MUST go on.
I collect, on average, one standard shopping bag full of plastic off the beach every day when I take my dogs for their walk.
Good work Ocean Clean-up.
Really nice.
You are doing an awesome job too!👍
Hello Pablo, thank you for doing it your end. Here in The Netherlands I also go for an hour each day to collect rubbish in the neighborhood. To not get frustrated about it, I call it my fitness hour and have done so now for 4 years. I know ‘the looks’ people give when they see me doing it and there is rarely a compliment. So keep doing it and do it for yourself and the environment. Bye bye
@@ingridwatsup9671 I live on an island. The plastic is all over the lesser visited beaches, which are the beaches I frequent because I can let my furkids off their leads safely. They run around and play whilst I walk the high tide mark picking up as much as possible, even very small bits.
My friend made me a scoop on a long handle that has slots in it to allow sand to fall through but keeps larger objects for me to sort through. It gets lots of smaller pieces.
I'm just a small part of a bigger wheel, as are you.
If we all do our part, we can reverse the damage we've caused.
Bless you and your family. 😊🌞
@@ikarus605 Plastic garbage on beaches usually come from the ocean
Large companies like Target, Costco, Walmart, Nike, Adidas, Amazon and the like in every industrialized countries should sponsor all these clean up as most of the trash are from their consumers.
And cruise industries need to help all these clean ups too.
Most of the waste is fishing equipment from Chinese, Indonesian, Taiwanese, Phillipino and Vietnamese fishermen.
@@bengoacher4455 have you seen pictures of the waste? There are some nets, but they float up and down according to the amount of fish captured at the moment. But in the garbage patches there are mostly household items, plastic bottles, childrens toys, shopping bags. I don‘t think they are from Eastern fishermen, but a big part from Western householders. Some gets even dumped by corrupt waste disposers, as it happend in Italy, when their dumping grounds where full, or contractors all over the world, paid to ‚recycle‘.
The plastics industry should be the biggest sponsor.
Could just drag the nets behind the cruise liners :)
coca cola giving India clean drinking water in single use bottles, yeay!
Many days I feel overwhelmed at how us humans are polluting our environment yet you Boyan and the Ocean Clean up team, you bring me great hope for humanity and our precious planet. I can’t thank you all enough. I’m going to set up regular monthly donations to The Ocean Clean up. I can’t thank you all enough.
Great idea, to setup monthly donation to “Ocean Clean Up”, I will do the same.
Theyve been at it for 8 years, if it wasnt for boyan and his big ego we wouldve had multiple working prototypes
@@mick0matic I don't understand your comment but having followed Boyan and his team closely now for many years I've seen a very much equal input from all his team members to arrive at the solutions they are testing out now.
Simply incredible
Stop using plastic
As an early (2014) contributor, a proud sunglasses owner and a person working in the field of AI, this presentation really made me proud. Congratulations for the tremendous work you've been doing, I'll keep following and supporting you very proudly!
Thanks for the kind words and the long-term support, Davide! Our supporters are a big part of what keeps us determined to move forward!
I am SO proud of you guys for sticking WITH it. Even if the first system turned out not working correctly yet, you keep learning and improving and THAT will give us clean oceans.
I had been missing numbers in the previous presentations, and almost considered this project a PR stunt that wouldn't ever have some impact. As such, I thank you for all technical details, design considerations and cost-benefit calculations explained here. I'm believing in this project once again.
You guys are doing great great work. Its also our responsibility now that we should not let our plastic waste enter into our oceans.
What I love about this the most (except for the end result, which is so crucial) is the problem solving on display. I'm really interested in how Bruno and his team build models to help drive decisions and make predictions. I'd really like to get involved in modeling and simulation efforts when I've got the chops. I'm a programmer by trade but I'm still teaching myself all of the math and physics to help tackle problems like this. Kudos to you all, it's such important work and you're showing how people can make a difference.
Complex topics deserve deep explanations. I am glad to watch the long version! I also admit a shorter/catchy one for social media platforms could work in parallel as well. This way we may engage more humans in the cause.
I wish I could work for you soon, I will keep applying to relevant vacancies I see on the website. Cheers!
Earth and humanity needs all the help it can get.
So do the disappearing marine animals.@@maxerd
This was the best tech demo I think I've ever seen presented at a public keynote. Bravo OCU!
Your best video by far.
Please keep updating us in the actual science, economics and engineering behind this wonderful endeavor.
I've followed the work of the cleanup since Boyan's original TED talk, and I want to congratulate this team on this magnificent achievement.
It's got to be a little disappointing that the solution you converged on was to drag an enormous net behind a pair of boats. All of the effort to keep the cost down by using the forces of nature to your advantage, all the really tremendous ideas and years of work reduced down to that very simple concept. If only you could have skipped over those blind alleys! But that's not how new technology is developed.
Anyway, all this is to say, congratulations on this milestone. All of my fingers and toes are crossed that it works out.
This should be a good lesson in the folly of trying to engineer with the only principle being a drive to reduce costs. Their second endeavor led them to use First Principles, to get a good machine and iterate that design to get lower costs. The result ended up being cheaper per kilogram in the end.
Great work and engineering process. Their team shows that even seemingly impossible problems can be solved by creative people using good engineering processes.
I believe more han engineering is human persistanse with very skilled individuals. ¡KUDOS FOR THE TEAM!
Thank you for your innovation, creativity, for taking action and for all you do.
I pick up garbage on the beaches on my walks, but sadly constantly see small pieces of polystyrene on the shoreline, a tiny indicator of the harm we have done to our waters.
I have followed your journey since Boyan's first TED in 2013 and was thrilled to see the Ocean CleanUp vessels in the harbour in Victoria, British Columbia, earlier today.
Wishing you all success in your ocean and river clean up.
I am so grateful to these beautiful minded gentlemen and their staff working behind the scenes for their hard work to protect our environment, our mother Earth, and all living beings from all the disaster caused by immature mankind. You are an example to the old creators who just create things thoughtlessly of the impact of their creations to our environment and future generations, such as the nuclear plant of Fukushima that were disposed into the sea impacting the environment and the living sea creatures. Blessings to all The Ocean Cleanup staff from top to bottom and thank you from the bottom of my heart. We all should provide financial resources to support projects like The Ocean Cleanup because they are working for our better future environment for all generations.
The wastewater at Fukishima will be released into the Pacific Ocean on Aug 24/23. Tritanium is the on harmful element that the processes cannot remove. China is boycotting fish supplies from around Japan. The marine animals eventually will all be affected and become sick as well.
The data analysis work on this project is amazing. Koodos for using solid data-based approach and not just randomly steering through the Pacific.
This company gives me hope!🙏❤
It's so good to hear your are on the brink of testing system 2 in the real world.
Awesome work guys! A well thought out approach to an upgraded design. Thanks for all you guys are doing to tackle this problem. Look forward to your next update!
I would love to see this guys succeed!
What a beautiful idea. I really appreciate the passion and creativity of the designers. I can’t wait for the updates.
So inspiring to see you all keep at it again and again until you find something to Help The Entire World's Oceans and never gave up on it GREAT JOB!! Looking forward to seeing the success you guys will ultimately have an awesome amazing agenda. kEEP UP the FINTASTIC WORK!!
And people really try to tell me with a straight face that Musk and Bezos et all have the most ingenious ideas. Nah. This is the GENIUS idea right here. Thank you for your work guys. I’ll be following!
Terrific research, well done The Ocean Cleanup, this is impressive!
This organization is doing amazing work.
I have a suggestion on the problem of the ghost nets. Make some kind of fps tracker that other boaters could tag the nets with. Waterproof and with a snare system so that it stays with the net. Then it can be retrieved at a later date by vessels that are equipt to handle them. It could also be utilized as another data point in the models.
This is fascinating to hear about the science and engineering and strategies you are improving upon- thank you for all the amazing work you are doing to help tackle this overwhelming problem. I hope your efforts is also making manufacturers think more carefully about their products that are most often picked up from your machines. Glad to hear Coca Cola is now on board with funding - hope other major polluters reach out and start funding your efforts and owning their responsibility and accountability.
Very interesting, you guys are doing great job! Learning from failures and never giving up until developing little by little a very clever solution! Congratulations and thanks for this detailed presentation!
..Lego needs to onboard with the recycling effort. Ocean Cleanup playset, and lifesize building blocks...
build some lego houses for people in need!
@@ohsohighnow
..absolutely. And just to mention the sheer co-creative delight in just building ... something...
That could actualy be a good idea. Not lifesize i think.. but standard legoblocks made from ocean plastic. Ild get some immedeatly for my cousins.
Heck i ld buy some just to own some🤣
Turning trash into product will be the way this project will turn profitable or at least costless..
Great idea!
@Its me or whatever Yeah, it's like the sunglasses Ocean Cleanup made with the recycled plastic. They clarified that it's not their plan to turn literally all the plastic trash into new products, the sunglasses was just a design made with the plastic that could be ground down into usable bits. 5% of millions of tons is still quite a bit, though, and I think they should do more collabs with brands, especially something that could put them on store shelves, like a Lego set. Lego could totally make it so that their one main water themed set was by "Ocean Clean Up." Made of the same blue recycled plastic material as the sunglasses, limited edition, etc. They could even make a mode of the boat! Add water animals! etc.
Obviously it would take a lot more work than the sunglasses collab but it would be cool. Imagine the set comes with a bunch of info about Ocean Clean Up and recycling, etc. The material then makes it into every home with people who purchased the set or got gifted it! It also explains the solar panels, etc. Get kids interested in this stuff too. There can also be a QR code with each set that takes you to the website, like with the sunglasses. Some way to donate too.
But I definitely agree, and it would only be worth it if the info with the set made it clear that this is just a fun Collab and not how they plan on getting rid of all the plastic.
Love you guys! Keep up the amazing work!
l have been binging on these vids all day and am just SO SO SO EXCITED AT THE PROSPECT OF THE END OF SUFFERING OF MARINE LIFE THEY DESERVE BETTER thank you to everyone who constributed to solving the GLOBAL PROBLEM. i USED TO WATCH THE SEAL BEING RESUED ON A YTC AND WOULD GET VERY UPSET AND DISTRESSED AT WHAT L WAS SEEING. L HAD NO IDEA THAT PPL WERE WORKING ON THIS PROBLEM BIG TIME......thank you so much from a very grateful 50 year old woman from Australia who thought there was no hope in fixing this problem. TEARS OF JOY............................THE FUTURE IS LOOKING BETTER NOW
One of the most important projects in the world
This is amazing. Looking forward to when the full fleet launches. :)
Superb. Gives me hope for the future of our planet that people such as yourselves spend your time and intelligence on saving our world for all our benefit. Many could learn a lesson from you and your team Boyan.
What a happy venture to be taking for humanity. I look forwards to seeing how it unfolds. Godspeed!
It's awesome seeing this after Jenny's success. Congratulations, team!
So educational, thanks for everything you do!
Great presentation and great progress! With every step The Ocean Cleanup is getting closer to tackle the plastic problem.
Bravo!!
I found your channel via youtube for the first time today and I'm glad I did. It completely blew my mind that you have been able to quantify the problem and model how a solution might work. Better still you have stuck at creating a practical, viable solution. I can't imagine the number of times it must just have seemed too difficult but I guess that is the nature of all meaningful human endeavour. Anyway I now have another project to keep an eye on which gives me hope for the future.
you have to respect our young engineers . They might be holding back the tide of destruction we have wrought on ourselves, Theyre making a damn good effort of it atleast. its inspiring.
A young brilliant man there. Keep up the great workdies. And your team does.
This project should receive the same funding that would go into a world war. Making the cleanup a global top priority for all nations.
You explained everything nicely. I actually understood all the arguments.
You guys are eco-heroes!!! Thank you so much for your hard work.
Thank you always Ocean Cleanup!!! You are all awesome!!!!!!!!!!So grateful for the work you are doing!
As a commercial fisherman for many years, I could instantly relate to the net being drug along by two boats. It's basically similar to a mid-water trawl. We used 'doors' to keep the net upon, floats on the head rope to keep the mouth up and chains on the footrope to keep it open downwards. Very simple. I also built nets so design plays a big part. This type of net can be used a the surface of any depth needed. Great idea. Too bad they didn't try this first.
It would be so cool to hook these up to existing ships that are already travelling over garbage patches. Like if two were going to the same destination, or if one regular shipping ship had an ocean cleanup ship following it beside.
Bravo! Puzzling that for nearly 50 years the modern world has been alerted to the enormity of the problem but it took someone so young, a millenial, to pound out the details and make it real.
Godspeed
PS
Is Boyan Slat a real name? Buoyant Slate? Slat of wood? Boyan means warrior? Predicted in scriptures?
It is unfortunate to hear that a fully passive system isn't working. However, it is great to hear that so much has been going on behind the scenes in the past year! I will continue to support you and I am looking forward to a succesful Jenny campaign!
Thank you so so so much for your efforts for cleaning up the ocean. 👍 I will do my part too.
Would love to see an interceptor update!
Very interesting to get the detailed explanation. Good luck with the tests!
That one person who disliked this video is part of the problem and not the solution. Anyway, loved this, your work inspires me personally to make better eco-choices everyday.
I love this company and their concept! I buy their sunglasses as a gift for friends and family, makes for a good story and helps a great cause!!
This is all fine and good. And I really do appreciaty the good work. But unless we stop mass producing plastics this will always be a losing battle.
Congratulations and thank you for your work!
Much appreciated! 👍
Considering the low speeds involved, solar and wind power would be useful for this harvest. It would make sense to recruit yacht owners who care about the ocean to pull these systems (properly scaled) for whatever period of time as a public service, and to feel that they are doing their part. Two weeks towing a collection system with another yacht for example. It would give the yachties "bragging rights", and though the direct impact might be small, the publicity would be huge, and would help grow support. It could also grow a subscription model....... A promotion that could at the same time help encourage people to transition to electric propulsion through programs like Patreon. The indirect benefits could be quite significant. It could involve the little guy, not just the deep pockets billionaire. Imagine a yacht owner flying a plastics cleanup burgee the color of which represented how many tons he had accounted for! We have signs along our highways naming the family, company, club, etc... who cleans up that stretch of highway. Bring the little people in... provide the tracking, etc so they can do it..... Let them brag about their service. Harness human nature.
Perhaps adding Magnus effect sails on the two ships could cut down fuel consumption even further. I do not mean right now, though, but in the future.
On board catalytic pyrolysis of plastic waste to make fuel for the ship?
Yes lets reinvent a drone boat, thatll be a nice way to spend another 8 years of research on...
I think, we should make ships run on hydrogen.
@@Ujuani68 interesting, good idea
Proud to be supporting!
Fantastic work. Well done. Great progress. Great insight. Thanks. Best of luck.
Crazy idea: Partner with shipping companies to get them to pull a plastic-catching net whenever they transit the ocean.
Excellent work. I really like how you are flexible in your thinking and design.
Fluid Mechanics and Physics all day long! Excellent work Ocean Clean up!! AAAAAA++++++
Great News! Looking forward to your work! Thank You!
Wow Guys, I wish you the best of luck with this new stage of development and your new prototype!!
There is soooooo much information on that video that is must to be break down in a serie of shorter videos for effectiveness for a broarder, attention lacking audience. And YES! amazing achievements!
Thank you for sharing the good and the bad research experiments and all the thoughts that go into the development of the sytems. This makes me hopefull that we can help recover the earth and lower our footprints on the planet in the future. Keep going
Good luck. Go Ocean Cleanup
Just happy there are such people in the world
I really admire that this young man has actually done something about a real problem. He (and others with him) worked to provide a solution and then implemented it...unlike Gretta who just yells at people and gets cross. Good ideas, hard work and real solutions - thank you Boyan Slat.
11/12/21 Thank you , thank you, thank you!!!!!!.......We may even be able to save ourselves. I waited for this since 1970, when I was a college student and began on my own to remove trash from local waterways, our streets, and places out in the country, in my home town. Think globally and act locally. I knew it seemed futile to attempt to help, but doing nothing was wrong.
Thank you for such a detailed presentation, I am starting a recycling operation in the colombian caribean coast and am looking for references that hace experience in this kind of operations. Hoping that in 2 to 3 years could be part of your recycling system and integrate it into the indigeous new culture for the second milenia. I will be based at Guajira, department of Colombia right at the tip of South America and at San Andres archipelago near the nicaraguan coast, but this second unit could be deployed at any of the islands in the Caribean Sea as a binational venture.
I am SO happy about this!
I just want to say im passionate about this project and I really do care about all who are involved in this project. I watch this and think why aren't all countries getting involved with this? What's stopping this from scaling as fast as possible? Funds? Workers? Designs?
Thank you for doing what you do!!!
Another great video
I love the idea that they aren't using any single use bottle in stage.
It would be strange if they did...
All the best for your big scale test!
Good work, respect and good luck to Ocean clean up.
Good luck with this project, we all need some good news.
Loving all the progress you are making! I wonder if you could cut down on fuel by reconfiguring the turbines companies like e.on use off-coast to generate electricity from the tides? Modifying some of those to produce electricity from the currents and then using that to power the boats might be possible.
There's a boat called the energy observer that runs on hydrogen and makes it from the sea water which also has solar onboard. A boat with a system like that which doesn't need refueling would cut costs in the long run.
Collaborations are key. We are better together. @oceancleanup
Been a follower for many years now. Great credit and respect to all you scientists, engineers, biologists, workers in all areas and enthusiasts from everywhere. Please keep going. I know many of us try to clean up as we can but it's your grand scale also to clean the major rivers. Great that others are developing ideas also being implemented. The whole planet is very sick and needs every bit of help. We must demand Govts work in all ways necessary to reduce further damage and climate change. Well done and thank you from me and all the voiceless marine animals you are helping
Some much-needed progress!
Awesome development!
Thanks Oc teams 👍
These companies involved in cleaning up the oceans should send the bill to the few countries that are causing 95% of the ocean pollution. Mostly in Eastern Asia.
Most of the ocean plastic is from first world countries (US and Europe), Asia and surrounds have only started contributing to it in the last few years
Excellent job.
Super cool that it's home port is Victoria! I should keep my eye out to see when they leave! :)
You could probably cover the costs of the boats by renting out "60 day" open ocean cruise experiences for $100k
The future of our world is in good hands
First of all: Great initiative! Thank you so much for your work! I don't understand though - in terms of efficiency, why don't you focus on filtering the rivers that cause the problem? The plastic problem needs to be addressed at the source: mainly asian rivers! There is drag and a high density of plastics, right? I guess ship traffic might cause problems to such a system... but I'm keen to hear your thoughts.
aha, asian rivers and everywhere around the world too 😌🤔
Nice continued work.
Doing is better than nothing. Keep up the Great work!
That is a very good thing for the future
I'm very pleased to see this, I dream of of a untouched climate nature doing its thing,
but i was born too late like all of us to ever see this,
But keep up the good work boys
I'm a long-time follower and fan of what you are doing. It gives me hope. However, I feel like you are trying to solve the world's problem. You shouldn't have to fund that yourselves. I'm not sure where your funding sources come from, but I hope the UN is involved with full support. The river cleanup efforts you mentioned are a hopeful way to change our future impact while also working to reverse the existing damage. I hope you are getting all the resources you need, because this initiative is imperative and I'm grateful for people like you who are determined to take on the challenge.
Love your kind words & agree with u, hope UN have to be support for this project! Ohhh..my dream (will be) come true 🤔🙏🙏
Thank you so much for this needed update. I have been keeping tabs on your status since your beginning. I have not seen or heard from you (The Ocean Cleanup) in 8 or 10 months!
I believe you said that Jenny is capable of cleaning a football field of ocean recyclables. One question I have now is how long does it take Jenny to clean a football field of ocean recyclables?
Additionally, I really like the fact that you have chosen to use biodiesel from waste products. I am not a big fan of bio fuels especially if wood is used which is more common.
Thank you for choosing waste products as a fuel source.
Many good points were made in this video. I look forward to hearing back from you on my question and seeing and hearing more about current Ocean Cleanup action soon. Thank you..
A superb example of joind-up holistic system thinking. You deserve UN and govenment funding! How will the virtuous circle connecting recovery to recycling be realised? That is the next challenge for global governance.