[Music] [Music] My name is Pete Solinsky, and I'm the CEO of C-bean project. And we're here today in Val. You know, I'll marina here in San Francisco. And we're just getting ready to put us even in the water. Steven is like a floating trash can. And we put it in the water at marinas, and we put on a floating dock, and we pull them water in from the top. And then we pump it out the bottom. And then we filter the debris and the trash and the oil with a filter in the middle of that. The filters that we're using, they're a fine mesh. And it's at the moment, they're polypropylene plastics. So essentially, we're using plastic to catch plastics. With the current filter we're using, we're catching microplastics to two millimeters in size. And we have developed the filter using a finer mesh where we've been catching microfibers. So stuff that you cannot see with the naked eye, you need a

microscope, and that's something that we have under development as well. [Music] Debris and trash in the marinas is a much bigger problem than I think people realize. It doesn't necessarily come from our members or from within. The trash is carried across the water, and it collects in these little pocket areas. Marinas tend to be a good location for that. It's gonna be food containers, water bottles, cigarette butts, little pieces of twine, and just the stuff that you would see blowing around in any type of natural environment. Stephen works 24/7, so it's an employee 24 hours a day for us. And then we just come by periodically, and it also collects a lot of the smaller stuff that we miss. It's just a great opportunity for us to be able to do something that's positive for the environment. We did a crowdfunding campaign, and we raised three hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars, and that gave us the kickstart to start this whole project.

and so that was two years ago. And now we have the commercial sea beans, and it's ready to go in the water. I think we have about 70 different countries with sea beans ordered, and every day it's just more and more. The interest is just huge. The cost of the sea beans is 3,300 euros. The maintenance cost is basically the electricity for running of the pump. It's using 500 watts, and it's only drawing four amps, which means that it's quite a low energy consumption. And yes, it is adaptable that we can have it run by either solar power, wind power, or wave. We also have some concepts that we've validated where we can get off the dock and into the oceans because the technology is quite simple and it's very adaptable. And so this is our 10-year plan. So by 2027, we aim to be offshore into the gyres [Music] you [Music]

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