Posted on 09/02/2024 3:21:49 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
A new method developed by Northwestern University uses electrical currents to solidify marine sand, creating durable, rock-like structures that could replace costly traditional coastal defenses like sea walls.
Researchers from Northwestern University have demonstrated that a zap of electricity can strengthen a marine coastline for generations, mitigating the rising threat of erosion in the face of rising sea levels and climate change.
In their study, recently published in Communications Earth and the Environment, the researchers took inspiration from clams, mussels, and other shell-dwelling sea life, which use dissolved minerals in seawater to build their shells. Similarly, the researchers leveraged the same naturally occurring, dissolved minerals to form a natural cement between sea-soaked grains of sand. But, instead of using metabolic energy like mollusks do, the researchers used electrical energy to spur the chemical reaction.
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“The most recent data from NASA shows a decline in sea level.”
2017 is the MOST recent? ROTFLMAO!
But it really doesn't matter.
Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud
Sea levels began to rise 18k years ago at the end of the last glacial period. They have risen about 135 meters since then which is an average of 7.5 millimeters per year. That is an average of 750 mm per century (29.5 inches) which is far more than the average over the last century. As the chart shows most of that rise was over about 8k years ago.
From 1880 to 2000 sea level rose about 20 cm or just under 8 inches. Far less than the nearly 30 inches per century average over the last 18,000 years.
Laugh all you want, clown.
“Which has to be averaged over an additional seven years.”
(105 - 85) / 7 = 2.86
Whatever. We all gonna die! Haalp!
Makes sense - new manmade lakes, new holding tanks for companies, and the increased amount of water held inside the cells of the expanding number of humans on the planet. (and the increased size of humans)
“From 1880 to 2000 sea level rose about 20 cm or just under 8 inches.”
That is 1.7 mm /year. From 2017 to present it has been 2.9 mm/yr.
I lived 7 miles from the beach in California for about 18 years. There, we stuck our umbrellas in the sand.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=florida+beach+umbrellas&t=ffab&atb=v204-1&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
Pics of about 10k umbrellas in the sand at FL beaches.
Is this at high tide or low tide, and at full moon, new moon, or half moon wane or wax?
To Serve Man...it’s a cook book!
FRIED CLAMS!!
YES
I know you’re joking but the 3 volts doesn’t harm anything big enough to see.
Actually not joking. I take bugs outside when possible. So glad to know it’s not as hard on small lives as wind towers.
Too bad.
I was going to suggest to tie liberals to the rocks.
Clamsploitation
Yep, you might be able to outrun Mother Nature for a while, but Father Time WILL catch up with you.
Coastal erosion is a big issue in Florida, with massive beach renourishment projects a major expense carried by federal taxpayers.
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