"Ocean Cleanup" plastic collector project

[kimbottles]

Thanks Beau. Good info.

As a working stiff trying to get folks restarted after a holiday shutdown, didn't have to time to go look. Between a subcontractor who's development effort is losing about 1 day to schedule every 2 days (But we think we have reached STR peak and are now fixing more than we are generating!) and one of my government customers who let his contract expire and didn't arrange for a formal "authorization to incur costs bitching at my guys for not working on his stuff, it's quite the new year. At least another Navy customer came through with a large 5 year contract and some initial funding between 28 Dec and 2 January so I didn't have to pull every body off of his job as well.

This is why I liked it when Rob dragged me to Bermuda. Once we cleared Cuttyhunk and passed out of range of the last cell tower, things were going to be what they would be without my involvement and only Lynne had the SatPhone number with instructions that it was for family emergencies only. It takes that for me to cut the cord.

Maybe this is how we keep Beau retired. We'll give him research tasks a couple of times per week to keep him busy.

Good idea, he does research very well and he needs distractions from going back to work.

[BeauV]

LOL! Yes, I could be a researcher again; haven’t done that since back in the ‘70s!

What a story, it sounds like some of the turnarounds I’ve worked on. I don’t envy the project with the massive slip rate. I do recall trying to explain to folks that slip rate was like acceleration. If the “rate” was getting worse, it was REALLY bad.

I just got done writing a note to a company I advise pointing out that they don’t know what their slip rate is. At least these guys have you and thus know what’s happening to them. They’re lucky.

[BeauV]

I wasn't sure where else to put this, it's probably not worth its own thread. But, the data on plastic accumulating all over the planet is seriously depressing. In This Articleresearch found that the amazingly beautiful Cocos Islands are literally covered in hundreds of thousands of bits of plastic.

Ah me.... reports from friends in French Polynesia are pretty much the same. You don't want to go walk the beach on the windward side of Bora Bora anymore and every morning the Beach Boys are out with rakes and bags removing the plastic from the hotel beaches within the lagoon. To repeat, ah me....