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Ep 69: How a Teenager Set Out to Rid the Ocean of Plastic; Boyan Slat & the Ocean Cleanup · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:01 Joe Lonsdale Boyan's now cleaning up the Pacific garbage patch.
- ▶ 8:21 Joe Lonsdale You started with the Pacific garbage patch, which is, there's tons of garbage out there to clean up, and then you're also going after all the main rivers where the trash is coming out, right?
- ▶ 10:33 Boyan Slat We use, you know, real-time satellite data to predict where the hotspots are within the Great Pacific garbage 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:42 Boyan Slat Um, but for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, um, if we get to nominal performance, you know, which is the goal for the next nine months with, with our current system, we would need, uh, about 10 of those systems to get the job done in 10…
- ▶ 16:15 Boyan Slat Within three months we were able to completely build a completely new cleanup system, which the first one took a year to do, and we got it out to the middle of the patch, and successfully we were able to, to catch plastic. 3 times in the scene
Ep 53: Joe Gebbia Changed the World with Airbnb. Here's What He's Building Next. · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 30:18 Joe Gebbia Uh, literally, um, there's the, the great ocean patches, which are where the currents come together and basically, uh, for decades have been, um, you know, grouping all this plastic in the ocean, uh, in one big spot. 2 times in the scene