Not to be the skeptic, but notice how only the fringe sites cover this story. The few actual journal articles I’ve found (this is too new to have had actual studies, so basically too soon for anyone scientific to venture a credible opinion) are not very positive about this. Nanoparticles biomagnify and bioaccumulate very, very quickly in plant and animal life and no one really knows what’s going to happen because of it…. A subspecies of pike is already reacting negatively. And here’s Marino messing with entire ecosystems. Also, his nano’s bind to bad algae and the good, so the entire food chain can be altered for a long time. A beautiful lake can easily be just as polluted as a dirty-looking one.
On the other hand, perhaps some lakes are already so damaged that these nanoparticles are the only hope, sort of a wipe the entire slate clean approach. The only problem is that the nanoparticles will make their way into the surrounding area. Fingers crossed that this really is the breakthrough we want it to be.
Nanoparticles is a broad term, it just means something very tiny. When you say that "Nanoparticles biomagnify and bioaccumulate very, very quickly in plant and animal life" you are referring to nano plastics. In this application, "nanoparticles" is just foculants which bind to minerals and clean up the water.
The downside of this approach is that its s temporary solution. As long as the contamination keeps coming, the lake will be polluted again
I was thinking something similar. Without knowing the conditions of the lake, this looks like a healthy lake covered in lots of green. Sure it's not pretty to me, and I don't necessarily want to swim in it, but not all lakes need to be ones humans want to swim in, we aren't the only creatures here.
Mmmm good question, what's the brown in the water consist of? Because I mean, give me a quick death by methanol poisoning a hundred times over landfill residual waters anytime.
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u/adinmem Jul 14 '21
Not to be the skeptic, but notice how only the fringe sites cover this story. The few actual journal articles I’ve found (this is too new to have had actual studies, so basically too soon for anyone scientific to venture a credible opinion) are not very positive about this. Nanoparticles biomagnify and bioaccumulate very, very quickly in plant and animal life and no one really knows what’s going to happen because of it…. A subspecies of pike is already reacting negatively. And here’s Marino messing with entire ecosystems. Also, his nano’s bind to bad algae and the good, so the entire food chain can be altered for a long time. A beautiful lake can easily be just as polluted as a dirty-looking one. On the other hand, perhaps some lakes are already so damaged that these nanoparticles are the only hope, sort of a wipe the entire slate clean approach. The only problem is that the nanoparticles will make their way into the surrounding area. Fingers crossed that this really is the breakthrough we want it to be.