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I don't know about the sexist behaviour, do you have any references? Let us not rush to allege that a project is likely to be a scam because the founder is you
by solarengineer 8y ago
I don't know about the sexist behaviour, do you have any references?
Let us not rush to allege that a project is likely to be a scam because the founder is young. The Trillion Trees campaign is also largely by really young people. The Ocean Cleanup folks don't harp so much about the founder's age. There's a whole team working there, and I haven't heard any grumblings from the team of resentment about him getting all the attention.
As for scientific documentation, here is their feasibility study: https://www.theoceancleanup.com/fileadmin/media-archive/Documents/TOC_Feasibility_study_lowres_V2_0.pdf https://www.theoceancleanup.com/fileadmin/media-archive/Docu...
- cultus 8y agoI'd rather not go into details on the sexist attitudes, but let's just say there is a pattern of talking down or ignoring the credentials of female scientists. The feasibility study is BS. It only convinced the media, no one in the marine community. They also gave the scientists they asked to "review" it literally 24 hours to do so. It is pretty hard to see how it was a good faith effort. Here is some information written by an actual oceanographer. http://www.deepseanews.com/2016/06/the-ocean-cleanup-deployed-a-prototype-and-i-honestly-have-a-lot-of-questions/ http://www.deepseanews.com/2016/06/the-ocean-cleanup-deploye... http://www.deepseanews.com/2014/07/the-ocean-cleanup-part-2-technical-review-of-the-feasibility-study/ http://www.deepseanews.com/2014/07/the-ocean-cleanup-part-2-... The second article is an in-depth explanation of all the scientific and engineering problems with the prototype.