NAIMOR: 3D Nanostructure Material for Oil Spill Remediation
http://www.naimor.com/
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Erica
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I think it is amazing how it takes just one liter of oil to contaminate 1 million liters of drinking water. I think we should be very careful, because we might eventually run out of drinking water! I think that a really great invention is the highly hydrophobic oil cleaner. It is amazing hiw it can absorb a quantity of oil around 150 times its weight, and that it can be reused many times without losing its absorption capacity. I also liked how they related this article to the devastating oil spills, such as the Gulf of Mexico and Exxon Valdez (Exxon Valdez is the oil spill I am reasearching) spills where thousands of innocent marine lives were killed and many were seriously injured. I also think it is interesting how just one oil spill can spread into the food chain where the effects have been severe and long lasting.
I agree with Erica, It is really cool how big an effect a little bit of oil can have. The fact that it spreads out so far and destroys so much of the food chain is truly remarkable. Perhaps the military could use this to their advantage, maybe not. Overall, this article is really cool.
This whole thing is really like the butterfly affect. Humans need water. We also need energy. For years, we've used oil. Now, there are better, more reliable sources of energy, but we don't want to change. And because of that, there is an oil spill almost every week. And if 1 million liters of drinking water are lost every time 1 liter of oil is lost, soon we won't have any drinking water left. Anytime we can find an innovative, green, cost efficient solution to a big problem, we should use it. Only issue? Big oil companies don't want to pay. Lots of people don't want to change. We need to find new ways to show people that these things are a good idea. Another thing is ignorance. People don't want to believe that they are hurting the environment. They want to believe that they are green and working hard to help the world. We have to find ways to educate them about the earth. I think this article was good, but I wish it explained how the material was made. However, from an entrepreneurship standpoint, by not describing how it was made, they are protecting their idea. Since this is not yet a thing, they can't patent it, and if it's not patented, they can't prove they made it. I think this article should get a 7 our of 10 stars.
I thought that this article was astonishing. When we wrote our purpose for the mock oil spill trials, my teams purpose was to find the most effective, environmentally and cost friendly way to clean oil spills. This new nanotechnology is exactly what we described. I found it amazing that once the oil was collected it can be reused. I was also fascinated by the idea of using it as a boom. When I first looked at the video, I saw them letting out small strips which were ineffective, but when it is used in a boom shape, it collected all of the oil immediately. In total, I really enjoyed this article.
I found this article really interesting. I agree with Juliet, however, that it would have been much more interesting to know how it was made. However, I was wondering. In the video, it looked like the cleanup process was really fast. The thing that I'm worried about is that the video was an animation. How fast would it actually take to clean up a spill? How was it made? There are so many unanswered questions.So, overall, I think it's a bad article but a cool topic. Also, in response to Sam's comment, the military actually did use oil spills to prevent war. In 1991, the Iraqi military spilled oil into the Persian Gulf to prevent troops from coming in.
I found this article very interesting. We have been trying to find a solution for years upon years. In our mock oil spill projects, we've been looking at sorbents, skimmers, dispersants, and we researched on burning the oil to make it evaporate. As this article states, some of those uses can be inefficient and expensive. Oil spills have been a huge problem for places everywhere in the world, more recently the BP oil spill in the Golf is still being cleaned up after exactly (as of April 10) 4 years! This seems like a really great solution, but it seems similar to bioremediation, which can be very expensive. As seen on the website, this will cost a lot of money. Like Juliet said, I would like to no how this is made and they may not want to reveal how it's made, in case people don't like these materials. How the boom worked was amazing! I would really like to learn more about this product.
Man, I wish we could have had this for our oil spill experiment, don't you think? It is so cool!! The fact that it is hydrophobic really helps because it will only absorb oil and not water, that was the problem with most of our cleanup materials in the experiment we did. Plus it is reusable! The booms look really affective. Plus they have another product called recam. It is like the wood chips we used, but it is magnetic so you can pick it up with a magnet.
I find the Naimor product a very interesting possible solution to major oil spills. Beside all the large spills we hear about like the Deepwater Horizon and the Exxon Valdez, there are thousands of small scale spills every year. The total impact of these small spill adds up though. If the Naimor product works it would be a great benefit to us. But I do think this video leaves a number questions. The video also does not say if Naimor works with all forms of oil. One question if the salinity of water affect the results. I guess I find the idea very interesting but we need a verifiable proof that Naimor works.
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I think it is amazing how it takes just one liter of oil to contaminate 1 million liters of drinking water. I think we should be very careful, because we might eventually run out of drinking water! I think that a really great invention is the highly hydrophobic oil cleaner. It is amazing hiw it can absorb a quantity of oil around 150 times its weight, and that it can be reused many times without losing its absorption capacity. I also liked how they related this article to the devastating oil spills, such as the Gulf of Mexico and Exxon Valdez (Exxon Valdez is the oil spill I am reasearching) spills where thousands of innocent marine lives were killed and many were seriously injured. I also think it is interesting how just one oil spill can spread into the food chain where the effects have been severe and long lasting.
I agree with Erica, It is really cool how big an effect a little bit of oil can have. The fact that it spreads out so far and destroys so much of the food chain is truly remarkable. Perhaps the military could use this to their advantage, maybe not. Overall, this article is really cool.
This whole thing is really like the butterfly affect. Humans need water. We also need energy. For years, we've used oil. Now, there are better, more reliable sources of energy, but we don't want to change. And because of that, there is an oil spill almost every week. And if 1 million liters of drinking water are lost every time 1 liter of oil is lost, soon we won't have any drinking water left. Anytime we can find an innovative, green, cost efficient solution to a big problem, we should use it. Only issue? Big oil companies don't want to pay. Lots of people don't want to change. We need to find new ways to show people that these things are a good idea. Another thing is ignorance. People don't want to believe that they are hurting the environment. They want to believe that they are green and working hard to help the world. We have to find ways to educate them about the earth. I think this article was good, but I wish it explained how the material was made. However, from an entrepreneurship standpoint, by not describing how it was made, they are protecting their idea. Since this is not yet a thing, they can't patent it, and if it's not patented, they can't prove they made it. I think this article should get a 7 our of 10 stars.
I thought that this article was astonishing. When we wrote our purpose for the mock oil spill trials, my teams purpose was to find the most effective, environmentally and cost friendly way to clean oil spills. This new nanotechnology is exactly what we described. I found it amazing that once the oil was collected it can be reused. I was also fascinated by the idea of using it as a boom. When I first looked at the video, I saw them letting out small strips which were ineffective, but when it is used in a boom shape, it collected all of the oil immediately. In total, I really enjoyed this article.
I found this article really interesting. I agree with Juliet, however, that it would have been much more interesting to know how it was made. However, I was wondering. In the video, it looked like the cleanup process was really fast. The thing that I'm worried about is that the video was an animation. How fast would it actually take to clean up a spill? How was it made? There are so many unanswered questions.So, overall, I think it's a bad article but a cool topic. Also, in response to Sam's comment, the military actually did use oil spills to prevent war. In 1991, the Iraqi military spilled oil into the Persian Gulf to prevent troops from coming in.
I found this article very interesting. We have been trying to find a solution for years upon years. In our mock oil spill projects, we've been looking at sorbents, skimmers, dispersants, and we researched on burning the oil to make it evaporate. As this article states, some of those uses can be inefficient and expensive. Oil spills have been a huge problem for places everywhere in the world, more recently the BP oil spill in the Golf is still being cleaned up after exactly (as of April 10) 4 years! This seems like a really great solution, but it seems similar to bioremediation, which can be very expensive. As seen on the website, this will cost a lot of money. Like Juliet said, I would like to no how this is made and they may not want to reveal how it's made, in case people don't like these materials. How the boom worked was amazing! I would really like to learn more about this product.
Man, I wish we could have had this for our oil spill experiment, don't you think? It is so cool!! The fact that it is hydrophobic really helps because it will only absorb oil and not water, that was the problem with most of our cleanup materials in the experiment we did. Plus it is reusable! The booms look really affective. Plus they have another product called recam. It is like the wood chips we used, but it is magnetic so you can pick it up with a magnet.
I find the Naimor product a very interesting possible solution to major oil spills. Beside all the large spills we hear about like the Deepwater Horizon and the Exxon Valdez, there are thousands of small scale spills every year. The total impact of these small spill adds up though. If the Naimor product works it would be a great benefit to us. But I do think this video leaves a number questions. The video also does not say if Naimor works with all forms of oil. One question if the salinity of water affect the results. I guess I find the idea very interesting but we need a verifiable proof that Naimor works.
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