https://thenewneo.com/2012/07/20/lots-of-pacific-garbage/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 21 Jul 2012 04:28:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://thenewneo.com/2012/07/20/lots-of-pacific-garbage/#comment-386426 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 04:28:35 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=18189#comment-386426 This is a form of environmental work that I think is good. But it’s probably expensive. Costs more to retrieve the nets than the electricity produced. Only a wealthy country can afford to do this sort of thing. A country that can’t pay its debts probably should suspend this until we get our finances in order.

]]> https://thenewneo.com/2012/07/20/lots-of-pacific-garbage/#comment-386307 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:53:01 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=18189#comment-386307 50 tons is equivalent to about one tractor-trailer load. It’s not that much. I had a job in college with the Army Corp of Engineers and every summer the best few days were cleaning the shoreline. We had a little tug with a boom and used that to corral the deadwood that the Spring’s high water had deposited on the shoreline. Is there anything better than where water meets land?

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