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[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (2 children)

With plasma.

Saved you a click. The article is still good, though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So, burning it?

Weren't there some plastic eating bacteria too?.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

It seems like they are still researching the actual effect but it's sounds more that it's breaking the chemical bonds apart by using electrical energy on concentrated areas of the chemical. My hypothesis is that it's like how electrolysis breaks the bonds between hydrogen and oxygen in water.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cool! We all have plasma in our bodies so PFAS isn't a problem then.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Not that kind of plasma.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This sounds promising. Wish we could do something about microplastics as well.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

we're going to have to filter the entire ocean to capture these shits as well as the plastic. or release shit tons of bioengineered things to eat the shit, which is another fun game of wreck-entire-ecosystems-roulette.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

On today's episode of "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

it's like how they finally figured out who mr Swirl was...seems like plasma and pfas woulda been tested long ago but, hey, steps forward are to be rewarded.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

“There are new ones being put on the market each year,” says Timothy Strathmann, a civil and environmental engineer at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden.

Any chance we could, you know, stop doing this immediately?