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New York City is building a wall of oysters to fend off floods (2021)

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Re: New York City is building a wall of oysters to fend off floods (2021)

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Post by rhaway84773 »

xienze wrote: post #29
rcme wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“But they’re a critical part of the many different interventions that need to happen.”

How come probably the most important intervention, building sea walls around Manhattan et al, isn't happening?

It is happening. Manhattan is raising the heights of its circumference land.

Re: New York City is building a wall of oysters to fend off floods (2021)

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Post by flavius29663 »

fnordpiglet wrote: post #35
flavius29663 wrote: post #33

The front page image is bothering me: are they really placing shells inside plastic nets? Aren't nets a big pollutant?

Only if they’re drifting.

what do you mean? In time, those nets will start to degrade and spread in the water. You will have billions of little plastic pieces floating around. How do you get them out?

Re: New York City is building a wall of oysters to fend off floods (2021)

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Post by more_corn »

xienze wrote: post #29
rcme wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“But they’re a critical part of the many different interventions that need to happen.”

How come probably the most important intervention, building sea walls around Manhattan et al, isn't happening?

Oysters are arguably more effective than sea walls.

Re: New York City is building a wall of oysters to fend off floods (2021)

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Post by more_corn »

kps wrote: post #24
koheripbal wrote: post #10

> So can the humble oysters really save New York City from flooding? “No, they can’t, “ says Pete Malinowski, the founder of the project

They help with the Great Pain of Space, though.

The crazy thing about that story is that they have the what right but not the why.

Re: New York City is building a wall of oysters to fend off floods (2021)

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Post by fnordpiglet »

flavius29663 wrote: post #42
fnordpiglet wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only if they’re drifting.

what do you mean? In time, those nets will start to degrade and spread in the water. You will have billions of little plastic pieces floating around. How do you get them out?

I looked through the site those don’t look like plastic. They look like galvanized steel.
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