#nanobubbles — Public Fediverse posts on home.social

I heard about this on NPR today... It sounds promising, but we're going to need them everywhere (just like the scrubbers in The Peripheral), and they need to be affordable!

#Nanobubbles help this lakeside cope with #ToxicAlgae — and the changing climate

by Caleigh Wells
Jun 5, 2024

"#ClimateChange is wreaking havoc on some freshwater lakes. They’re getting warmer, and that is spawning lots of toxic algae. When the algae runs rampant like it did 15 years ago, it can kill every other living thing in the lake. Sometimes the city of #LakeElsinore, situated halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, has to close the lake to prevent people from getting sick."

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"Fresh water bodies across the globe are falling victim to [the toxic algae] problem as the climate crisis makes water warmer. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 40,000 bodies of water are 'impaired' just in the United States.

"Lake Elsinore is the largest natural freshwater lake in Southern California. Now the city on its shores is spending $2 million to try out a new technology to fix it."