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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We're literally going back to serfs boiling water to make it drinkable.

I'm a liberal sorry https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-surprisingly-easy-way-to-remove-microplastics-from-your-drinking-water

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Wait if I boil it does that help? I don't want any cancer or whatever

EDIT: was a bit crass, but the question is sincere

EDIT 2: I googled and found the article, it's not a bit, kril-drained

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

all-my-apes-gone "what if we take the drinking water and use it to cool the computers. that'll boil it, right?"

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Does boiling it even help or are they talking about boiling as a step in distillation

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

boiling precipitates the water's minerals onto the microplastic, making it bigger (and easier to filter)

that's why it works better with hard water than soft

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh okay so it's just a maybe useful pre-filtering step that will likely still not remove all the plastic

Thanks for reading for me so my vibes based science is more informed

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-surprisingly-easy-way-to-remove-microplastics-from-your-drinking-water

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Ughhh i wanted to read the answer in comment form, not an article deeper-sadness

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