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I've been hearing this line repeated ad nauseum since the 80s. Occasionally they pan out, but far more often you're looking at a Google Graveyard of underfunded ideas and abandoned projects.
In this case "we're going to turn the Texas Garbage Patch into sunglasses" doesn't fill me with excitement.
"No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing." - Oscar Wilde
I'm skeptical too, but I choose to retain some optimism in a world with so much terrible stuff. This project seems to have more than zero potential, without introducing obvious great harm.