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I maybe ignorant, but couldn't you just heat up the water to have a leftover lump (or something) of microplastics. At least if energy consumption wasn't an issu
by vfinn 8y ago
I maybe ignorant, but couldn't you just heat up the water to have a leftover lump (or something) of microplastics. At least if energy consumption wasn't an issue.
- monk_e_boy 8y agoYou'd kill all the plankton
- austincheney 8y agoNo, water is extremely efficient at conducting heat. Until the creation of synthetic fluids for this purpose, in about the last 25 years, deionized water was the most efficient conductor of heat known. Using a heat based process on the ocean would thus mean heating the entire ocean, which simply isn't viable.