Summary/Reader Response Draft #4 - Ocean Clean Up Machine (a)
According to Schiller (2017), "Boy Genius Boyan Slat's giant ocean clean up machine is real". Schiller stated that Slat had set out a massive clean-up project using his vision of the ocean clean-up machine. The article stated that oceanographer Charles Moore discovered that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch had waste so thick that it formed solid areas one could walk on, which was the reason for Slat's initiation. Schiller reported that Slat received criticisms and scepticism about the project when he proposed his initial design of a clean-up machine measuring 60 miles long to repair the seabed. Schiller then stated that after Slat made numerous vetting, his new idea was to split his initial design into 50 smaller devices of 0.6 miles each, which is a better innovation as it allows the remaining machines to still work if any were to malfunction. Schiller pointed out that although building an individual device is cost-saving and more efficient than a huge clean-up machin