Every city has to deal with waste treatment. Imagine a sponge filter that absorbs chemicals out of the waste water. 😮

This podcast is an instant watch for me, the information is always entertainingly delivered and well formatted. Thank you for continuing to explore the real innovations carrying our world forward to a better future.

my thought goes to - can it be designed to filter gold from the ocean? Or remove saline from sea water?

Thanks for covering this again....just curious if someone has contacted the oil companies directly (a reporter) to shed some light onto why they have not invested. There has to be a reason that the government has not stepped up......any up-dates from the researchers? There seems to be a problem much bigger than just money, as it has been a "year ago" since the story (video) was first posted.

@heerosanosyuy1173

4 ай бұрын

Good point.

@UmbertoPerna

3 ай бұрын

What comes onto the surface is a small fraction of the spill, wouldn't change much, the sponge will be solid waste afterwards anyway. This thing doesn't solve any issue related to an oil spill

There are 3,000 plus oil spills in the Gulf every year

This is absolutely brilliant

SpongeBob SquarePants from the Miles Morales universe comes to life and solves the sea contamination after creating clones of himself 😂

How about a thin film product that can filter agrecultre run off, binding to glyphosates and other forever chemicals? thare are all kinds of toxins and chemicals such as mercury, arsenic from gold mineing, radioactive materials, etc.

✌🏻😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿oil companies should donate money towards this project. Or the companies that have a history of damaging the ecosystem should be forced to pay for this project.

@eustatic3832

4 ай бұрын

Ask shell

@williammarston1861

2 ай бұрын

Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 will never be able to take England with 10,000 angry sheep’s.

The hard part is done, which is inventing this material. Now hopefully variations of this can be tested for different applications to accommodate a variety of problems. Good job smarties!

Would it be possible to line the insides of the oil tanker ships with this olio sponge material?

@matto4228

4 ай бұрын

i think that would add a lot of cost and complexity as well as increasing fuel costs for transport. i think it would be better just to deploy it when a spill happens

Really Cool! but we also got to ban coal oil and non biodegradable plastics. Got to fix the cause not just the symptoms.

Fantastic

How about ones that absorb THM?

And yea - Gates Foundation should be asking for a grant application

11:24 100s of millions of dollars is what the oil companies would rather spend on Supreme Court justices and congress in order to deregulate themselves. It s not the 1970s.

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✌🏻😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿force oil companies to transport the oil with the sponge and extract it from the sponge at the destination. Problem solved.

No.

13:14 You guys have no idea how oil cleanup works do you? oil companies routinely sue the clean up companies. Come down to Louisiana