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caraher

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4. Great for her, but I have mixed feelings

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Thu Oct 2, 2014, 05:50 AM

Oct 2014

Effective ways to clean the waste can only help a practice that should not happen spread. We need to leave the oil in the soil and the trees on the land, not find ways to make the devastation following resource extraction less toxic. In an ideal world this kind of invention would be used only on existing wastes, and it is certainly needed for that. But if this scales up and goes into use, the net effect will be to make tar sand production more palatable, to the detriment of both climate and the lands disturbed.

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Teenager Invents Faster Way to Clean Up Toxic Tar Sands Waste Using Sand and Bacteria [View all] Omaha Steve Oct 2014 OP

This gives me hope that our children will save us, Phlem Oct 2014 #1

I hope she gets a piece of the patent but that probably goes to the UofC Monk06 Oct 2014 #2

There was a similar technology employed in the Gulf in years past. I talked to the company that made freshwest Oct 2014 #3

Great for her, but I have mixed feelings caraher Oct 2014 #4