Posted on 08/11/2023 11:41:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A young award-winning County Cork inventor says the only way climate change can be tackled is if more people are inspired through education to care about the environment and are encouraged to come up with creative solutions.
A Google Global Grand Prize winner and more recently a recipient of a European Inventors Award, Fionn Ferreira, a chemistry masters student from Ballydehob in west Cork, recently patented his novel method of removing microplastic particles from water.
According to the United Nations, there are more than 51 trillion microplastic particles in the seas, 500 times more than the number of stars in our galaxy.
The global crisis of plastic waste accumulation has deeply affected and inspired the 22-year-old. […]
He uses a magnetic liquid mixture, which binds to microplastic particles to separate them from water, allowing for their removal using magnets.
His latest prototype removed over 85% of microplastics and can be used safely in drinking water.
The west Cork man is currently working with the University of Texas to scale his invention for use commercially in areas such as water treatment plants and large-scale water outflow points. …
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Lol…
It is widely understood in less alarmist scientific circles that the so-called ‘micro-plastics’ do NOT remain forever in the oceans. The reason there are ‘trillions’ of them is they become quite small. So small, in fact, that they can be consumed for their energy content by micro-organisms that inhabit the oceans. These are similar to the “oil-eating’ bacteria that clear the oceans of all the petroleum products leaking from oil wells oil spills, and rifts in the ocean floor. Note that oil spills don’t last forever, either. They are simply converted to....air.
Aren’t plastic bags banned because they end up in the ocean in Asia ? LOL
Dude must be old as hell itself.
Yes, this is called "free market capitalism."
Now that’s funny!
“According to the United Nations, there are more than 51 trillion microplastic particles in the seas, 500 times more than the number of stars in our galaxy.”
Oh, now there’s a piece of information you can bank on! LMAO!
Certainly a very poor case of the argument from “authority” fallacy.
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