This sounds promising. Wish we could do something about microplastics as well.
How to take ‘forever’ out of forever chemicals
Submitted 6 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03876-9
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d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
vivadanang@lemm.ee 6 months ago
we’re going to have to filter the entire ocean to capture these shits as well as the plastic. or release shit tons of bioengineered things to eat the shit, which is another fun game of wreck-entire-ecosystems-roulette.
tuxtey@lemmy.world 6 months ago
On today’s episode of “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?”
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
“There are new ones being put on the market each year,” says Timothy Strathmann, a civil and environmental engineer at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden.
Any chance we could, you know, stop doing this immediately?
Colorcodedresistor@lemm.ee 6 months ago
it’s like how they finally figured out who mr Swirl was…seems like plasma and pfas woulda been tested long ago but, hey, steps forward are to be rewarded.
girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I think the key is using argon bubbles as a method of nucleation for the PFAS as well as an efficient medium for the plasma to be carried to the chemical. I’d imagine it would function like a neon light with water and a bubbler in it.
Synthead@lemmy.world 6 months ago
With plasma.
Saved you a click. The article is still good, though.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 6 months ago
So, burning it?
Weren’t there some plastic eating bacteria too?.
girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It seems like they are still researching the actual effect but it’s sounds more that it’s breaking the chemical bonds apart by using electrical energy on concentrated areas of the chemical. My hypothesis is that it’s like how electrolysis breaks the bonds between hydrogen and oxygen in water.
Plopp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Cool! We all have plasma in our bodies so PFAS isn’t a problem then.
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Not that kind of plasma.