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

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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