The Manta : A giant sailboat on the attack of oceanic plastic pollution
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- čas přidán 25. 01. 2021
- The SeaCleaners presents The Manta : the first concentrated ecology and
technology factory ship capable of
collecting, processing and recovering
large quantities of marine plastic
waste.
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Constructor: How many different energy sources do you want to have on board?
Manta R&D Team: Yes!
Yes, but all of them are feasible and might cover all of the energy needs even on calm, cloudy, trashless days at sea. I suspect it might be manned as well given the size of it.
Heroic. Keep designing and thinking. With people like you, we can solve this problem. Cheers!
Sounds cool, but for the 33 million euro price tag you could build 50 of The Ocean Cleanup's River Interceptors. But hey, there is no one solution. Wish you guys the best.
How do you avoid collecting sea living in the process?
I agree with the comments here suggesting that when the initiation of this plan has been finalized and scheduled, that it should be broadcast on live television 📺. The anticipation and excitement of this would attract commercial sponsors. I see is it as a monumental event for the environmentalist movement and the global community.
Im a big fan of all these ocean cleanup projects. Having seen beach and oceans around the world absolutely ruined by garbage I think its important. I would like to see more projects aiming at stopping the polluting happening altogether that will be the bigger challenge. Educating and motivating people in the poorest places on earth to understand, care and not pollute.
its not necessarily the poorest places that are the problem, it's the billion dollar corporations and rich countries dumping all their rubbish on the poorest pretending like they made the right decisions, the poor countries need help to dispose of this revolting waste in the best ecological ways. Plastic should be banned all together.
We NEED a fleet of about 500 of these around the world! Amazing!
More like 5,000 or more!
@@warrenrayledbetter9957 50 million the ocean is very very big
we need exactly ZERO of these. We need land based plastic conversion throughout china
We also need it to save Lake victoria
Thank you very much for that!
You are our Planet heroes! 👏
Simultaneously uplifting and heartbreaking.
20 years ago, this was one of my dreams and finally others are following suite and making dreams come true. Hopefully I will help build their electronics. It does anger me that we have to babysit the human population and clear mess, but even infants learn eventually. Lets build a bigger creche.... Well done Seacleaners, I am so proud ;)
Thanks Captain 🙏
What suite are others following? A suite of rooms, a suite of furniture?
I used to dream of ideas and solutions like this years ago until I understood the laws of thermodynamics and that infinite growth on a finite planet was never possible.
@@hughjaanus6680 these type of comments are so braindead. Pls stop.
@@redhex__1738 He spelled "let's" wrong also. As you admit to being braindead I'll help you. Follow suit, not follow suite.
Thank me very well.
I've been dreaming of a huge project like this one for years. (A huge Brita system, filtering water on its way). I am so happy someone actually did it !!! ❤
can you please add fishing nets and fishing gear as collected waste into the illustrations for cleaining the oceans. it is not telling the whole picture. thanks.
Yep, the vast majority of plastics in the ocean are from the fishing industry.
This is so amazing! I cant wait to see the project go live and see what results will give 🥳
Haha it's all CGI don't hold your breath
@@Chobaca Don't mind if I do!!
Humble inspiration,
Common namesake
Vital mission
Heroic method
One badass boat
Amazing. We badly need MANTA to the ocean around our world ASAP. ✅✅
basically a waste burning facility that can float...the two smaller boats are actually what makes more sense.
But...how can you have tidal generators on a moving object?
Also "floating metal debris"....I am not so sure about how often that will be a thing.
Also the gnarly gasses created when burning random plastics is going to be insanely toxic. How is that handled?
1) Such hydro generators already exist on recreational sailboats and they work on the same principle as tidal turbines. As the Manta is a larger sailboat, medium power range tidal turbines can be adapted for electricity production.
2) Scientific papers listing the different types of garbage found in floating garbage slicks have shown that large quantities of metal beverage cans and metal cans were present.
3) Plastics are not directly burnt. They are converted into syngas by the pyrolysis reactor and most of the pollutants are captured in the solid residues (char) mainly constituted of carbon. This permits to reduce CO2 emissions and to bring the char back to the shore to be properly treated. As for the combustor exhaust gases, they are treated in a special unit to comply with EU and international emissions standards.
@@TheSeaCleaners Those EU and international emissions standards very low are not good for the environment. I use to work for Disney Cruiseline and you should see the toxic diesel we burned at night. All under regulatory limits.
@@julianmac no doubts about that. I think we all can agree this is at least....a step in the right direction? the plastic pollution is being ingested by marine life, and further ingested by humans and other animals. and the world wonders why cancer is reaching extreme highs? with the advancing technologies, hopefully soon we will find a safe and clean chemical process to be able to reuse the waste products of plastic. plastic is such a horribly awesome invention :-(
@@TheSeaCleaners Thank you for doing the research and knowing the tech! I wish every home was equipped with waste to energy conversion methods. I had an idea for a home unit handing all household waste in the appropriate manner and converting the solids into usable biomass.
@@ascentialamalgorhythm2991 so you mean a composter?
~ Thank You ~
Merci beaucoup! Thank you so much for doing this! We need more of these kind projects.
thank you
This is fantastic and more need building.
Every country should be responsible for there own waste, if all new housing estates had to be as sustainable as possible then maybe they should have a plastic recycle place which like the manta makes energy from it , and should reduce the amount pollution and reduce there household bills?
FAIR WINDS ! Thank you so !
I worked my entire adult life in Electrical Power Generating Facilities & Power Distribution Stations. If this Pyrolysis Process, basically converting plastic chips into synthetic gas (fumes) worked as claimed here, the synthetic gas would either have to be compressed to create pressure, or ignited to boil water creating enough steam pressure to spin a turbine. If, and that a mighty big IF, it worked... simply install this system at every landfill & plastic recycle plant to fuel Electrical Generators BEFORE the plastic waste ever reaches the oceans in the first place.
The Manta could be the Retention Area of the Ocean Cleanup model Jenny.
If this thing gets built and does one successful trip, I will donate $100. There's too many CGI marketing promos out there that never come into existence
That looks nice but I see issues with this approach:
1) only 1% of plastic in the ocean floats this way
2) It does not do anything about microplastics, which is itself a separate scary problem
3) it requires people on board, which adds crew's salary to year's operation cost.
4) maintenance costs of all those extra mechanisms are unknown
So this more like an entertainment project.
The most recent studies shows that: 15% of the total amount of waste that goes into the ocean is floating. And, in some areas, 90 to 100% of floating waste is plastic. 15% of the waste remains in the water column & 70% ends up sinking after a few weeks to a few months. Collecting this waste in the estuaries of the rivers that carry the most waste and near the coasts, before the waste sinks and disperses, makes sense.
Only 3 operators are needed for waste sorting and storage. Waste treatment organisation was designed to be energetically efficient, robust & adaptable to the highly variable composition of the collected waste and to minimized both the investment and operating costs.
@@TheSeaCleaners that's a clever way to present stats, but it does not invalidate my first point of concern - only 1% of plastic waste in the ocean floats on the surface: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/31/ocean-plastic-we-cant-see
According to the video, this Manta ship will collect waste that floats 1 meter deep.
So this project actually "attacks" only visible waste which is 1% of the plastic pollution problem but looks flashy like a 99% solution.
So kool .thank you for your efforts..
We should save the earth before we try colonizing the other planets. We have the skills to do it thanks to people like you.
Looks fantastic. And very inspiring. As an ocean lover and seafarer captain, I wouldn't mind being part of the purpose and help navigate this vessel on a mission. I hope there will be more than one to come. Is it already being built or are they waiting for more funds to have this project come to life?
This should be funded by every goverment that has anything to do with polluting the ocean, which is most of them and we should have a fleet of these ships all around the world!
MARAVILLOSO PROYECTO, debería de ser una realidad , saludos desde España
Seems like the collection would be more efficient using the small boats to set a shallow purse seine.
Might be simpler to burn the plastic to turn a turbine and scrub the exhaust.
This ship could stay on the garbage patch indefinitely. Rotate the crew and resupply.
Pandora's box was made of plastic.
So cool
Need more and more of these boats made to try and really clean up the oceans as best as we can. Many thanks to whoever invented and invested in this
I WANT TO WORK WITH YOU GUYS! LOL
Seriously, I appreciate the project's success
Fantastic!!!
If you were to integrate this with a luxury yacht that could take large groups of say 20-30 people you could easily charge people to go on eco cruises and pay for it with profits. There would be no end of eco tourists that would love to take a cruise on that kind of ship for a week or two. Spend half the time cleaning the water and half the time in some tropical area and boom profits and cleaner waters.
each effort to clean the oceans is honorable.
the problem is, that the garbage patch doesnt look like your simulation.
you'll find 10-100kg plastic per km²...
that means - your energy-source isn't just there.
further, if you use the nets shown in the video, the bycatch is extraordinary.
you will kill more sealife than the plastic itself
Great project, maybe even better if scaled up to be more automated and industrial ships, but the long lived plastic bags problem needs to be tackled other ways, as the resulting microplastic pollution from bags may be more important for the sea food chain
Seacleaner, can your please go live one day. That would be so cool.
Nice video. But have you built anything yet, even a small prototype?
How are you funding this, other than asking for donations?
Do you have any plans to make this into a self-supporting mission that doesn't require ongoing donations to operate?
Nome sayen?
vapoware
Take a decommissioned aircraft carrier and convert it to a cleanup and processing factory to turn all the waste into sustainable products. That would be a start! Cheers from Australia.
This a great idea 2 in each area,k keep
it going.
Don't forget to start at the everyday level, consume less plastic :-)
Why aren't the climate change people screaming about this!!!! THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO!!!
Holy freaking cool!!!
fabulous piece of engineering
i dont know it looks to me like the 2 sails will make the solarpanels almost useless because of the shadow they will create also the windmill/sail combination will not work out in reality because of the same reason u can only use one not both but maybe im wrong
Very cool
the expression drop in the ocean springs to mind .. but then of course every little helps .
is this a working ship or still just a concept? this film is over 18 months old, I know there have been problems with covid but is it in working order now? we simply cant wait any longer x
Wow, è un idea geniale! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The plastic is spread over a huge area and the Manta's inlet is tiny.
How much are these going to cost? I lived on a an Island in Ha Long Bay in Vietnam! I would dream to have one of these and spend the rest of my days cleaning the bay.
🌳
Does your ship have a growroom
Or does this have to keep restocking from land to feed the crew?
Why do you need to sort out glass and metals, these will sink and are inert, not sure the add is a genuine attempt at addressing the problem or a pie in the sky engineering project demo.
People offering solutions to a problem-how nice. Metal (cans) and glass (bottles) are buoyant, and are part of water garbage slicks as per the literature on the subject.
How come there isn't a fleet of these out there? Hasn't Gates figured out a way to make money from it?
Podrían enviarlo al Océano Pacífico específicamente entre Hawai y San Francisco en línea recta, para limpiar aproximadamente casi 2 millones de kilómetros cuadrados de basura, en su mayoría, plásticos, gracias.
Благодарю
that boat is impressive...who designed it?
I'm gonna need a bigger boat huh
Smells like vaporware.
Pretty cool ngl
A feat of engineering! If 17 tons of plastic are put into the oceans every MINUTE though, wouldn't it be more efficient to find ways to reduce that number instead, or in addition to?
Wow, why didn't someone else think of that?😅
@@mikeypc3592 Very helpful answer. Ok smart guy..what's being done by corporations or top producing and/or polluting countries to reduce plastic usage and/or require or promote recycling when it comes to plastic goods?
such a cool vehicle :D wow
GENIUS idea to convert plastic into energy .............. well,....: better late than never, I suppose
We have already built the small river boats for cleaning the rivers of any floating waste.
Very good. Reduce amount produced/dumped also a good option.
One caveat to this project would be the recovered pollutants from the waste-energy process. Are there any management plans or strategies in place for dealing with this waste material or even potential reuse for these pollutants/chemicals?
Gonna need about 1000 Manta boats
So are they still near $10,000 per pound for removal?
They are getting all kinds of rich, and doing very little. Bravo
where can I buy one?
"Every minute 17 tons of plastic waste are dumped into the ocean..."
(that equals 1020 tons per hour)
"The Manta is capable to collect up to 3 tons per hour..."
(1017 tons per hour left...)
You see the Problem? "Don Quixote" would be a better name for this ship!
Even if he had 340 of those ships to collect 1020 tons per hour for 365 days per Year,
that would be just enough capacity to catch the new waste. But there are already millions (billions) of tons of old waste swimmin' in the seas.
And the real sad part about it: according to a study, there is estimated 20x more plastic waste in the ground than in the seas.
Time to face the truth: we messed it up!
need thousands of mantas
youre right, they shouldnt even bother
Thank you for showing what a joke this idea is. Luckily the islands of plastic is another fake scare tactic to make us give up our freedoms under the UN Agenda 21 plan. I would encourage anyone who doesn’t agree to watch some sailing channels on YT and see the beautiful clean oceans of the world.
i work on energy from waste plants here in UK dreams thats all this is
Great idea but until I can step from the dock to the Manta decks it's just hogwash 😄👍👍🇺🇸
You were probably among those that also doubted residential solar panels and electric vehicles. Lol.
@@Jason-qg5eh you do realize this is only a concept , that vessel isn't real . I had solar panels on the different boats i've owned in my life probably before you were born youngster 🤣👍👍🇺🇸
@@jimmybritt9537 I am very much aware that this is an ingenious idea for a pervasive problem. All solutions begin with an idea. This group is taking action and claims to have a boat by 2024-I wish them success in their endeavor and hope others follow their lead. So, I'd say more than a concept at this point. A panel or two on your boats to power your beer fridge as you putt around the lake is a far cry from what this vessel proposes. Despite my "young" life, I had panels on my home within 6 months of home ownership and a rain water harvesting system within 1 year. The "young" generations are forced to do anything possible to mitigate environmental abuse and neglect from previous generations, you hear me, geriatric? :b #world #climate change, yeah it's a thing #water pollution #net loss of 3 billion birds within the past 50 years in North America (2019 study)
@@Jason-qg5eh Oh I love a good rant and that was a good one , you sure let me have it . Right now I am putting together my last sailboat to do the islands in . It will have solar panels and two wind generators plus a stinky diesel for a supplement . Even though I don't drink alcohol I do love ice cubes and icecream on board . You have fun complaining and trying to stop what you can't . This mess is the result of the top few and I worked all my life so I had nothing to do with it . Oh bye the way you don't really own the house or the land it's only an illusion created by the elites . The real world is completely different from the lies we are told on a daily basis . Wish you well youngster just do what makes you happy in this life . 👍👍🇺🇸
Glad you enjoyed that. Sounds like a lovely time on your sailboat with that on-board technology-I can get behind that. The "top few", the "elites", "you don't really own the house or the land", lol, sounds like that sea air is getting to you. Or are those ice cubes prepared from Flint, MI taps? A conspiracy-driven life must be tiresome. Escape to the islands, since it seems you have become complacent anyways. I'll take it from here old-timer. You've "worked all (your) life" after all, as if others haven't. "I had nothing to do with it", typical pass the buck comment. You've never used plastic products? Everyone has had something do with it. Enjoy the sailing, maybe you can fish some trash out of the water or pull some damn monofilament line, that can be your valuable contribution. Thanks for the well wishes. #world
if this is legit, it's awesome 👌
Send it to Tenerife .
I’m surprised trash separation and vessel navigation occurs manually. I’m fairly certain we can develop vision AI models using data science to do this. Contact me if you wish to try
what if there's no sun or wind? no back up diesel generator?
Solar panels usually store extra energy for night time and cloudy days
Can I work there:)
nice animation, but when will you build it?
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So this is active right now?
The thumb nail shows it in outer space instead of an ocean.
Congratulations for this nice project. How sad to see the humans destroy these wonderful planet ! Just a question about energy: How many calories used to melt the plastic, and then how many calories produced? I mean, we often used more calories than produced... So: is it autonomous? thank you
Hybrid
Well somebody went into one of my daydreams
so this burns plastic and is still only 75% self sufficient even with solar and wind and someone still has to sort the dead fish from the plastic manually? so its a floating incinerator? very green
Sure
The Pacific Ocean alone is larger then all land mass on Earth. This should do the job, or at least create some fun jobs for the “inventor” and his friends. Anyway, nice presentation, hopefully you learned something that will help you present a real business idea one day.
💜💜💜
Is it possible to make a smaller version about 40 feet long? Then, 1000's could comb the ocean and rivers to clean this place up!
Not nearly F**king big enough 😂😂
Tell em their dreaming
I’m going to make a scale model version to clean fish tanks
But is that thing real ?
The development is done, we're starting the construction phase :) It will be effective in 2024.
Для начяла щоб збирати сміття ,придумайте "ту штуку" яка буде відганяють живність ,креветок,мальок в місці забору сміття. Так риба тоже буде іти в переробку
Where is ist know? Why is nothing like this in the sea
The Manta received in June 2022 his certification from Bureau Veritas : it is now fit to be built !
New steps are now open to the ship before its launch in 2025: first, an exchange phase with the shipyards, then its construction starting end of 2023.
Ayo teman teman kita berlayar....kita senang senang di laut....................
3 tons collected (max per hour) vs 10 Mio tons spilled annually. If the boat is active 17/24 and 300/365, you would need 4'000 of these boats to collect just what gets spilled (and you still can't get the nasty pieces smaller than 1 cm). And if you start burning this shit on small units like on these boats, you can't use efficient filters to prevent poison gases to be released. Assuming that one of these boats will cost around 25 million USD, we are looking at an investment of 100 billion USD. Plus yearly cost of maintenance, easily 1 Mio per boat or 4 Bio for the lot. That money would be so much better placed into actions to reduce the waste at its source. But that wouldn't be as sexy. Open your eyes, folks, this is not the way into a better future but a lullaby to let us dream on, while we continue to head for the wall.
make 1000 of them
Reference plz