21 Mar 17
Originally posted by sonhouseLooks useful. But I must note that the requirement for water purification is hardly unique to desert communities. A really cheap filtration system would be useful throughout the globe and especially in poor communities in Africa and India.
This can be a very big deal in desert communities.
21 Mar 17
Originally posted by twhiteheadWould be nice here too. The one thing I was wondering about, would it take out arsenic? or other heavy metal contaminants. That seems to be the big thing now, finding filters that do that job besides viral and bacterial removal.
Looks useful. But I must note that the requirement for water purification is hardly unique to desert communities. A really cheap filtration system would be useful throughout the globe and especially in poor communities in Africa and India.
I also wondered if this charged polymer could be adapted to human blood for instance to attract virals and bacteria and thus lower the load for diseases like HIV and so forth.
If that could do the job, maybe they could design a molecule that would recognize when the polymer is full of viral or bacterials and then change course and head out the kidney or rectum.
21 Mar 17
Originally posted by sonhouseNo. Blood has cells in too.
I also wondered if this charged polymer could be adapted to human blood for instance to attract virals and bacteria and thus lower the load for diseases like HIV and so forth.
And virus' are another ballgame altogether.
If that could do the job, maybe they could design a molecule that would recognize when the polymer is full of viral or bacterials and then change course and head out the kidney or rectum.
Now you are not making any sense at all.
21 Mar 17
Originally posted by twhiteheadI was thinking of freefloating virus loads. The piece said it picks off viral and bacterial products because they are all positive charge so the negative charge of the polymer attracts the bugs and kills them because they cannot have access to its food supply.
No. Blood has cells in too.
And virus' are another ballgame altogether.
[b]If that could do the job, maybe they could design a molecule that would recognize when the polymer is full of viral or bacterials and then change course and head out the kidney or rectum.
Now you are not making any sense at all.[/b]
There must be virals and bacteria in blood freefloating.