Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat
Studied aerospace engineering, becomes a cleaner. Founder/CEO @TheOceanCleanup boyanslat.com Joined May 2010-
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At the UN Plastics Treaty negotiations today. Not the type of environment I feel comfortable in. But: it’s encouraging to have seen the plastic pollution problem grow from something most people I spoke to hadn’t heard of to now being discussed by all countries on Earth.
Officially collected a sh*t-ton of trash. Super thankful for all of you, our supporters, corporate and government partners, operators and of course the team for getting us to this point! Next milestone to aim for = 100m kg
Officially collected a sh*t-ton of trash. Super thankful for all of you, our supporters, corporate and government partners, operators and of course the team for getting us to this point! Next milestone to aim for = 100m kg
The Ocean Cleanup is currently testing System 03, a massive plastic pollution collection device that captures tons of floating debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
BREAKING: We just made our largest ever plastic catch. Interceptor 006 in the Rio Las Vacas, Guatemala, stopped 272 truckloads of trash - equal to 1.4 million kg (3.1 million lbs) - from flowing into the Caribbean Sea. All in a single evening.
LATEST: The first flush of 2024’s rainy season and Interceptor 006 is already preventing tons of trash from flowing into the Caribbean Sea from the Rio Las Vacas, Guatemala. Will this be our largest river catch ever? Keep an eye on our channels while our crew works round the…
Don’t get me wrong: there’s a lot to love about Europe and living there. But when you’re trying to pull off something that hasn’t been done before, a business culture that emphasizes risk over opportunities and structure over results is like what xenon does to a nuclear reactor.
Don’t get me wrong: there’s a lot to love about Europe and living there. But when you’re trying to pull off something that hasn’t been done before, a business culture that emphasizes risk over opportunities and structure over results is like what xenon does to a nuclear reactor.
Spending 24 hours in Silicon Valley has already recharged me with enough optimism to survive another 4 months of European pessimism.
Cool show about creating a future to look forward to. The piece about @TheOceanCleanup starts at 17:25
Cool show about creating a future to look forward to. The piece about @TheOceanCleanup starts at 17:25
The perks of having an uncommon name
Does anyone know where this was filmed? instagram.com/reel/C1r2axQI8…
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just occurred to me impostor syndrome might also be a form of network effect: on average, the peers we interact with are more successful than us, because more successful scientists have more exposure
There's a logic to this that is tempting. However, I don't think it's either or. There are enough smart, wise people in the world to go all out on both.
AI is more likely to cause human extinction in the next century than climate change. And it’s much more likely to cause human extinction in the next decade. Additionally, if we solve AI, we will solve climate change On the flipside, if we solve climate change, this does…
It's strange that beauty is entirely subjective. These are beautiful to us because of how we're programmed. Objectively, they're no more beautiful than any other arrangement of atoms and photons. The day humans go extinct, everything we find beautiful will cease to be beautiful.
Since 2010, battery costs have fallen by more than 90% — offering opportunities to cut emissions in road transport & electricity In 2023, electric car sales rose to almost 14 million. And battery storage deployment in the power sector more than doubled 👉 iea.li/49Xo910
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There are 8 BILLION people in the world. OF COURSE, we can find solutions to any of humanity's problems.
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The fattest of boys
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This was due to the burden of mortality was determined mostly by diseases that spare neither commoners nor kings, as a matter of fact, the English royal family had a lower lifespan than commoners.
learning how to say something in 30 seconds that takes most people 5 minutes is a big unlock
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@Fernando082074 Con todo lo que se roban, deberían contratar un Interceptor de @TheOceanCleanup o hacer un acuerdo con el gran @BoyanSlat
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