Algorithm for Pacific Home

Here is a brief rundown of the general plan that's forming:

1. Build a giant kite.
2. Load it with supplies and tools and fly it to the G.P.G.P.
3. Rebuild the kite into a research station and marine Permaculture farm.
4. Separate Ocean water into water and salt. Water goes to the greenhouse.
5. Melt the salt (probably with Solar energy.)
6. Add plastic and some oxygen. Recover synthesis gas.
7. Combine syngas with water to create carbon dioxide and hydrogen. CO2 goes to the greenhouse.
8. Use syngas and energy from hydrogen to create more Octet-truss kite. Use hydrogen for buoyancy. Create both more flying vehicles and floating stations.
9. Bring home farm produce and other products for sale. The whole process is self-funding and "exothermic".

There are a ton of details, obviously, but I wanted to sketch out the general gist.

The research station would be researching both the GPGP itself and the recycling of it's contents, as well as marine living in a Bucky-esque futopia. It would include Living Machine trials to process and purify the semi-plastic muck, and Permaculture systems to grow food and other products out of the extracted resources.

Additionally, I see the construction of a large floating station as crucial to "igniting" this effort. It gives both a conceptual locus to hang attention on and also a physical destination in the Patch to change it from some waste-"land" into a real place that you can go to and "attack".

One of the reasons I want to take such a very large kite with me is that I can then partially disassemble it and reassemble it as a home base. By carefully designing it and constructing it before ever leaving land, I can make it so that within a day of "landing" at the patch I'll have one much smaller kite and a huge floating house!