What's up,

up fella, how are you?

Good to see again, man.

Likewise.

I've been reading that you are having some great success with your machine finally.

It's everything's up and running.

Last time we talked, you had yet to implement it, actually out in the wild.

And now you, explain to us what happened.

You had some bumps in the beginning, right?

Yes, yeah, so it's been quite a few years.

Finally, something's happening.

So we launched our first ocean system from San Francisco in September of last year and we took it out and roughly two months later we figured that first of all it wasn't catching plastic so what we saw was

that the system was moving at roughly the same speed as the plastic so maybe

just take one step back the idea and how it works so So of course we have this great Pacific garbage

patch between here and Hawaii, twice the size of Texas, 100 million kilos of

plastic, doesn't go away by itself And the idea was to have this artificial coastline that is driven by the forces of the ocean.

We put it in there and the plastic naturally accumulates against it and kind of stays in there so we can then periodically get it out because the big challenge is that although there's a lot of plastic it's it's spread out over this vast area So we first have to concentrate it before we can take it out,

because if you were to simply troll the ocean for plastic

with boats and nets, it would just take forever really.

So the idea was to have those artificial coastlines,

we deployed the first one, and then what we saw

was that somehow the system was moving

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