Un prototype de barrage flottant pour la collecte de débris marins va être expérimenté en mer du Nord
▻http://www.theoceancleanup.com
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Dutch Foundation Unveils Prototype System to Rid the World’s Oceans of Plastic - gCaptain
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The Ocean Cleanup Foundation’s prototype floating barrier sits in front of the MV Union Bear, which later this week will install the prototype in the North Sea.
Credit: Ocean Cleanup FoundationA Dutch foundation developing an advanced clean-up system to rid the world’s oceans of plastic has unveiled its first-ever prototype to be launched later this week in the North Sea.
The Ocean Cleanup Foundation, founded by now 21-year-old Boyan Slat when he was just teenager, unveiled its North Sea prototype on Wednesday before main sponsors Boskalis and the government of The Netherlands.
The prototype will be installed in the North Sea approximately 12 nautical miles off the Dutch coast, where it will remain for a period of 12 months. The objective is to test how The Ocean Cleanup’s floating barrier fares in extreme weather at sea, even more severe than the types of conditions that a full-scale version of the system may encounter.
Once installed, the prototype will be the first ocean cleanup system ever tested at sea.
The foundation says that the 100 meter-long barrier segment to be deployed will help validate the survivability of the system, while sensors will track every motion of the prototype and the loads it is subjected to. The data gathered will enable engineers to develop a system fully resistant to severe conditions during the cleanup of the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a enormous area of the northern Pacific Ocean where an insurmountable amount of trash has accumulated in mid-ocean gyres.
The design of the system uses long floating barriers which act as an artificial coastline, using the ocean’s natural currents to passively catch and concentrate ocean debris – such as trash and broken down plastics. Although some trash may be caught during the North Sea prototype test, collecting plastic is not its objective.
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tiens ça fait penser, on n’a pas tellement de nouvelles du projet #protei ; visiblement il a changé de nom et s’appelle désormais scoutbots (robots éclaireurs)
▻http://scoutbots.com
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