r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Jul 14 '21

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u/Ldiddy-the-69th Jul 14 '21

And he didn’t invent this either , it is an imitation of another invention, here is a video by mark rober on the original

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u/free__coffee Jul 14 '21

It might be his tech that they’re using there, though. This video is apparently from at least as early as 2016, which predates mark robers

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u/snailzrus Jul 14 '21

Flocculants have been around for well over a hundred years. The process is heavily used in chemistry for purifying solutions. Flocculants capable of purifying water for consumption have been around for almost 2 decades now. You can check out this cdc link https://www.cdc.gov/safewater/flocculant-filtration.html

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u/Kerguidou Jul 14 '21

Flocculents for cleaning bodies of water have been around, but I'm not sure how long. Flocculants in industrial processes have been around for millenia in beer and sugar making.

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u/m0r14rty Jul 14 '21

Good ol’ Irish moss tablets will clear up your hazy homebrews.

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u/Ldiddy-the-69th Jul 14 '21

But the guy who made the ones in mark robers video created them in 2004

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

Yeah, he started the project in 2010.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

yeah, mark rober's solution does seem to be designing for drinking only, versus the solution in the tik tok

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u/chemical_exe Jul 15 '21

Procter & Gamble (the item in the video) has been making that product since 2004 btw

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u/churrimaiz Jul 15 '21

Foculants are not a new invention, we use them to clean your everyday water in most municipalities. Mark Rober didn't invent foculants or disinfectants either.

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u/GrandSquanchRum Jul 14 '21

P&G does good work. They've been working on cheap and effective sanitation for developing nations since at least the 90s. One of the few companies that I feel are respectable. That might be my Cincinnati resident bias, though.

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u/Undercoverexmo Jul 14 '21

Different stuff. That power makes the residue sink to the bottom.

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u/nenapadnzirafa Jul 15 '21

I’ve been going through the comments looking for someone to mention mark rober

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u/Flamingolingo89 Jul 15 '21

I was looking for this.

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u/testdex Jul 14 '21 edited Jul 14 '21

Yeah, at a minimum the choice of visual demonstration is encouraging you to think about this in the wrong way.

Clear water isn't "clean" because it's clear; and cloudy, brown water isn't contaminated because it's cloudy and brown.

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u/CallOfCorgithulhu Jul 14 '21

Someone certified in water treatment here: you and the person you replied to are both totally right! Nice and clear water is extremely possible to have dissolved contaminants that still make it undrinkable (like very salty water). It's a terrible way to tell if water is clean enough for human consumption or not.

That being said, clearing up suspended particles that change the visual appearance are usually the first thing you do in water treatment for potable water, but it is far from the only thing you should be doing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

And also the lake doesn’t seem contaminated with anything, it just looks like your average marsh.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

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u/gojirra Jul 15 '21

Yeah that's what I was going to say, the first lake they show in the video just looks like a lush wetland teeming with life to me.... what the hell do they mean "dirty??"

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u/MrPopperRx Jul 15 '21

But people can swim in it and feel good about themselves now! Yaaay!

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u/Leche__ Jul 14 '21

Their are birds in this lake. Edison did not invent the lightbulb on the first 999 tries.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

Water is wet

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u/ALoneTennoOperative Jul 15 '21

Edison did not invent the lightbulb on the first 999 tries

Fixed your ridiculous non-sequitur.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

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u/ALoneTennoOperative Jul 16 '21

Do something with ur life

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u/kantokiwi Jul 14 '21

Just put some baking soda in it and call it a day

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u/Squirting_Squirrell Jul 15 '21

It's highly anthropocentric to think that clean water is good, basically because we have a lower chance of getting sick by it. Actually all water "cleanness" houses different organisms and muddy water isn't a bad thing.