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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 23 Jan 2016

    Paul Graham Retweeted FORTUNE

    Is it possible to build an autonomous plastic scavenger?https://twitter.com/FortuneMagazine/status/691057401055854592 …

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    FORTUNEVerified account @FortuneMagazine
    The oceans will contain more plastic than fish by 2050 http://for.tn/1SabtIw  pic.twitter.com/QQRzCW87GQ
    10:23 PM - 23 Jan 2016
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      2. Dillon Chen‏ @dillchen 23 Jan 2016
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        @paulg Something like this? http://www.theoceancleanup.com/ 

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      1. Alex Lorestani‏ @alexlorestani 23 Jan 2016
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        @paulg @FortuneMagazine @indbio Mealworms.

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      1. Pembient‏ @pembient 24 Jan 2016
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        @paulg Look at @BioCellection, funded by @indbio. Plastic waste → Fishmeal for aquaculture; https://youtu.be/CQuMTtnL-OY 

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      2. Boyan Slat‏Verified account @BoyanSlat 24 Jan 2016
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        @paulg Happy to talk you through @TheOceanCleanup next time I'm in SF, we're connected through @sama

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      1. HRT drug dealer to kids‏ @beka_valentine 23 Jan 2016
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        @paulg an oceanic roomba! surely possible. but who'd pay for it?

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      1. Hugh Patterson‏ @Develop_D 23 Jan 2016
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        @paulg I sailed around the world studying plastic on beaches and in ocean. Not possible. Must be stopped at source.http://inhabitat.com/the-fallacy-of-cleaning-the-gyres-of-plastic-with-a-floating-ocean-cleanup-array/ …

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      1. Josh Andrews‏ @joshuaandrews 23 Jan 2016
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        @paulg We built a few autonomous sailboats that will one day do that. Currently finishing one built for the Atlantic http://ubcsailbot.org 

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      1. Andrey Rebrov‏ @andrebrov 23 Jan 2016
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        @paulg already existshttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/seabin-ocean-bucket_us_5681d22fe4b06fa68880fc60 …

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      1. Aaron Gunderson‏ @AaronGundy 23 Jan 2016
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        @paulg A Rumba for sea debris...

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      2. Rasty Turek‏ @synopsi 23 Jan 2016
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        @paulg yes, it is. And it should also filter the water to extract gold http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/gold.html 

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      3. Roman Ripa‏ @romanripa 23 Jan 2016
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        @synopsi @paulg Fishes with DNA manipulated to be able to eat plastics?

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      4. Rasty Turek‏ @synopsi 24 Jan 2016
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        @romanripa @paulg yum, sounds tasty. I believe better will be a bacteria though

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      1. Mohamed Ibrahim‏ @IBHibrise 24 Jan 2016
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        @paulg @FortuneMagazine Very much possible hope @BillGates or @elonmusk announces a contest to promote innovation in this field

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      1. Gerry Stegmaier‏ @1sand0sLawyer 24 Jan 2016
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        .@paulg @FortuneMagazine sure as soon as we find a life form that will eat the stuff and will serve as a sustainable food source

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      1. Aleks Jakulin‏ @aleksj 24 Jan 2016
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        @paulg Mealworms can happily and safely eat styrofoam https://news.stanford.edu/pr/2015/pr-worms-digest-plastics-092915.html … And humans figured out how to recycle crude oil and coal.

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      1. Angik‏ @kyunbit 24 Jan 2016
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        @paulg Throwing out a naive idea: what if all of future plastics contain magnetic nanoparticles so that they can be picked up easily.

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