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Anybody want to drop in and burst my bubble? This sounds very promising!
by mrweiner 3y ago
Anybody want to drop in and burst my bubble? This sounds very promising!
- hammock 3y agoHow does it perform in the real world, where water is contaminated with far more than microplastic - is this filter selective for plastic or will it get gummed up by literally anything? Is the solution scalable? What does it cost?
- EGreg 3y agoHmm, well done sir That bubble never had a chance! There have been similar issues with this promising approach: https://www.freethink.com/environment/plastic-eating-bacteria https://www.freethink.com/environment/plastic-eating-bacteri... Personally I often wonder why things like the seaweed for cows that reduces methane emissions by 99% is not everywhere by now, and we are resorting to masks to trap gases from their breathing and farts.
- ComputerGuru 3y agoI don't know how much you know about water filtration plants, but in the real world everything is a series of filters, each more fine-grained than the one before it. You would never use this on unfiltered ocean or waste water - it would be yet-another-stage in the filtration pipeline, after many of the others and possibly before a few more.
- baron816 3y agoEven if this doesn’t go anywhere (due to economics or funding or red tape or whatever), the best parts of this is we know people are actually working to resolve this issue and are making progress.
- orblivion 3y agoSure, it works in vitro. Call me when it's in vivo!
- im3w1l 3y agoSure. This will be a possible add on to home water filtering solutions for paranoid stay at home moms but will not be used at a large scale. Lakes and seas will get filled with more and more microplastics which will enter the foodchain from there.