(editor's note: In the "clean up" department, scientists in Madrid Spain are close to launching tiny microsubmarines designed to collect oil droplets from ocean waters. And next, proof of things promised by our Star Family! It seems the tsunami and earth quake activities are bringing "lost" habitats and species back and depositing them on beaches. These are little gifts from Gaia - a "thank you" for our efforts to help restore her grandeur.
Rather than become disheartened by the negative news of mainstream media, I challenge you to look deeper -to find healing earth heroes in your own community. There are people all over this beautiful jewel we call Gaia working every day to correct the damage we have done. They are doing the physical clean up work, or putting the intellectual thought into solving these problems. Please join me in sending them all energies of love and support.
~All my Love, Boo)
First 'Microsubmarines' Designed to Help Clean Up Oil Spills
Scientists are reporting development and successful testing of the first self-propelled "microsubmarines" designed to pick up droplets of oil from contaminated waters and transport them to collection facilities.
Joseph Wang and colleagues explain that different versions of microengines have been developed, including devices that could transport medications through the bloodstream to diseased parts of the body. But no one has ever shown that these devices -- which are about 10 times smaller than the width of a human hair -- could help clean up oil spills. There is an urgent need for better ways of separating oil from water in the oceans and inside factories to avoid releasing oil-contaminated water to the environment. Wang's team developed so-called microsubmarines, which require very little fuel and move ultrafast, to see whether these small engines could help clean up oil.
First-Of-Its-Kind Study Reveals Surprising Ecological Effects of Earthquake and Tsunami
The reappearance of long-forgotten habitats and the resurgence of species unseen for years may not be among the expected effects of a natural disaster. Yet that's exactly what researchers have found on the sandy beaches of south central Chile.
Says Jenifer Dugan, an associate research biologist at MSI. " Dune plants are coming back in places there haven't been plants, as far as we know, for a very long time. The earthquake created sandy beach habitat where it had been lost. This is not the initial ecological response you might expect from a major earthquake and tsunami."
"..after the earthquake, where significant continental uplift occurred, the beach area that had been lost due to coastal armoring has now been restored. And the re-colonization of the mobile beach fauna was under way just weeks after" says lead author Eduardo Jaramillo, of Universidad Austral de Chile.
Comments
"MicroRobots" sent into oceans Very Concerning
Good intentions aside, releasing microrobots that are autonomous into the natural habitat is very dangerous and ill advised. Time and time again we humans have release non native species and organisms, and things, into the wild with catastrophic results.
There is no way that we have done enough research and testing, not that 15 or 25 years of doing that would really give us real long term answeres, on nano-bots or microbots. All we've seen so far is how uncontrollable they are once released, and thats in a small enviromnent like a rat, let alone a giant ocean.
Forget it, this is too crazy and will burn us and Gia in the end. Say no to robots and massive l;arge scale armies of them doing something that may, in the future, end up causing the opposite of what mother earth wants.
Geez.