Harvest plastic to oil in "great pacific garbage Patch" with american enterprise

Two year ago Videography Lab began production on a documentary-drama about indiscriminate dumping of plastic into the Pacific. All waste in the Pacific Current [moving persistently in a clockwwise direction] is controlled by the elements [natural and manmade processes]. The plastic that survives the journey ends up bobbing around North-NorthEast of Hawaii. This area is known as the North Pacific Gyre, but the media knows it as the GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH. Our documentary always aimed at finding solutions for this dilemma as plastic becomes a health problem that could devastate tourism in Hawaii. As of 4/21/2011 we are announcing our plan to Harvest the Plastic into Crude Oil. There is only one craft in the world that is designed to handle this JOB. We love the US Navy "America's Global Force for Good" motto. The Enterprise is the oldest and one-of-kind "Enterprise Class" nuclear carriers. Here is what the US Navy has to say about the USS ENTERPRISE

FLASH May 15, 2011 the Japanese Tsunami woke up the world with wildly overstated media reports of a "Nuclear Catastrophe". This Mega-Tsunami was indeed tragic in the scope of destruction to the Japanese nation. The entire world watched, via video from countless cameras, as coastal cities and complete populations were decimated by giant walls of water. The fact remains that there were no casualties attributed nuclear radiation to date, but this event awoke PRIMAL historical-hysterical pop-cultural myths that have permeated the US and global political-economic decision making since the darkest days of the "Cold War". I believe that it is best to let the brave and resourceful Japanese restore their economy and get on with my proposal for how the USA can best use it's existing resources and truly be, as the slogan goes, "America's Navy ... A Global Force for Good". Can we do it? Yes we can and here's how.

Our documentary filming in the Philippines and Hawaii showed plenty of polution and many other voices have recently shown this problem in great detail. Search for Video "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" and you'll get a months supply of documentaries, and lectures on how big [now estimated as the size of the USA less Alaska and Hawaii]. We think this Newsweek story printed in The Daily Beast does a good job of summarizing the state-of-affairs

the "patch" is and how difficult it is to photograph, because quite simply the plastic that survives the journey to these remote waters [sometimes 10 years or more] has been broken into tiny pieces of boring looking grayish plastic with an occasional colorful piece in the mix. Why? Because the colorful pieces are eaten by Albatross and other sea birds, fish and sea mammals who either die or live long enough to enter the food chain ... eventually your dinner table!

What is most striking about most all the stories and videos is that they preach only conservation. Use less plastic bags, packaging, water bottles etc. We have yet to see a complete action plan on cleaning up the mess that is added to the conservation voices.

We tipped our hand early in this story by mentioning the USS Enterprise. This most noble of all US Nuclear carriers is about to go into mothballs at a COST to tax payers of $1 Billion per year. Read the US Navy story above and you'll also find that stripping the ship of her 8 nuclear reactors would be prohibitively costly over and above mothball storage and there is no chance of a museum conversion. You will also find that the USS Enterprise reactors were recently refueled and she's good to go for at least another 20 years. So here's the plan:

1. As president of the United States I will order the Chief of Naval Operations to re-assign the Enterprise to the Pacific fleet based out of Pearl Harbor.

2. Before reassignment her aircraft decks will be emptied and cleared to accommodate plastic to oil [P2O] refining at cruising speed. [Let us say 20 knots].

3. There are at least 6 companies internationally and two US companies that produce P2O refining using a Biomass Technology known a "Pyrolysis". Our research has shown that they all agree that such refining can be done on any form of plastic, unlike recycling systems which cannot mix various plastic formulations.

So it's as easy as scoop the plastic in and seperate the oil from the water that comes out!

This cute video made by a Japanese inventor shows the process on a scale that is easy to understand.

There are at least six major companies, including two US corporations, that convert plastic to oil on an industrial scale. There appears to be a common formula for the conversion. One Kilogram of plastic waste X One Kwatt hour of electrical energy = One liter of crude oil.

From the beginning of my quest to actually clean up the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" I realized it would take a very dynamic approach to solve a problem of this magnitude and global importance. Here is my complete plan to clean the waters north of Hawaii.