Comments for Nanopaper Soaks Up Oil Slicks at http://www.ecogeek.org , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.ecogeek.org Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:17:39 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.ecogeek.org/monitoring-pollution/1694#comment-14131 As for the seagulls and other wildlife, NPR had a program about bundled nanotubes being as toxic as asbestos. There is a real solution for getting bundled nanotubes out of your system but there is a way to unbundle nanotube thanks to this kid, Philip Streich. So the wildlife could probably be treated somehow but it seems easier to come up with a new solution for the oil slicks. - Caroline Streich Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:23:55 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/monitoring-pollution/1694#comment-14129 I wonder what chemicals are used in order to make the paper, but other than that it seems like a great solution! - Caroline Streich Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:17:47 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/monitoring-pollution/1694#comment-13942 "What damage will nano wires do to the seagulls?" You can't tell me you think that the chance - the tiny, negligible chance - that this particular material will pose a threat to seagulls outweighs the absolute, 100% certainty that being coated with bunker fuel WILL harm seagulls. This is EcoGeek. EcoWorrier and EcoWhiner may be more your style. There's not the slightest reason to believe that nanowires will pollute or cause issues, particularly when they're bound together into a cohesive sheet. It's a sad state of affairs when the desire to protect the environment turns into a reflexive, Luddite panic that anything and everything will harm the environment. - Snark Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:58:26 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/monitoring-pollution/1694#comment-13915 Oil pollution is bad enough, so why is it necessary to pollute the oceans with nano wires? The constant flexing of the wires from the wave motion will see to it that these things break up. What damage will nano wires do to the seagulls? - John Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:47:06 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/monitoring-pollution/1694#comment-13898 Strangely enough, human hair does just about the same thing... and I'm pretty sure that the nano textile is expensive to construct, requires precursors and produces waste. Do we make the nano-wire-textile? or should we take something that is already available and considered a waste product? - NE Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:38:45 +0100