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24 comments:
This is a great discovery it could contaminate oil and reuse it for more reasonable and effective cause
This is an excellent material to clean up oil spills, hates water, loves oil, perfect! Then, it allows the people to squeeze it out again to be used! The only downside I can think of is the price of making it, but they don't specify on that.
I really enjoyed the article. This new discovery could help clean up oil spills everywhere. It was amazing how 96% air 2% clay and 2% polymer can create a sponge like thing that loves oil and hates water.
This article was not to interesting, although I learned a few things. It seemed that it was either repeat things within the article, or just telling the reader what they already knew. Learning how the sponge was made was quite interesting, but that seemed like it was the only time I was really learning anything.
I liked this article a lot because it shows that there is still hope for animals and plants that are endangered by oil spills. I also think it is very lucky they came up with this formula when trying to make a new type of kitty litter!
I agree with Brandon, this is a great discovery but it would cost much more to clean up the oil spill than the way we have it now. This article became really repetitive by the end.
I 100% agree with Eliezer, Claire, and Brandon Fong! I think it was really cool that it was made out of clay! and that it was really cool how 96% air 2% clay and 2% polymer can make up this amazing discovery! overall, I loved this article!
This material seems like the perfect solution to the oil spill problem. Its almost too good to be true! The fact that the oil can still be used after it has been soaked up makes it even better. Think how much wasted oil can be recovered by using this. Oil is nonrenewable and recovering the spills helps a lot. Over all, I thought this article was pretty incredible.
Wow! That is so exciting. By the way, Brandon F., it surely isn't expensive because it is made up of clay and polymer, not platinum. I wonder why it loves oil.... maybe because it's lighter? Who knows! That guy must have been a genius, trying to make kitty litter out of a polymer and clay.... he's the new Einstein.
The material that makes up this substance is probably inexpensive but on the other hand you need a bigger amount of substance to clean up oil which could result in a high price
It is great that scientists have found a god way to clean up oil. I thought it was interesting that this stuff was made while trying to make cat litter. I think the most important thing about aerogel is it doesn't only clean up the oil, it also leaves it in a condition to reuse it.
I pretty much agree with Eliezer, Brandon, Claire and Etta. I think this was a really cool article. This is a really effective way to clean up oil spills. I think some of the problems with regular machinery is the making of it. But with this invention, you can reuse. How much better can it get. I also agree with Brandon F on the price of making it. I think that in general articles tend not to focus so much on the negative side on things...
Brandon is right I would loved to se that in action. It's like it shuns the water like it is an outcast. I loved this article overall. I want to buy one of those. I hope I have enough money!
This is amazing! I already knew that aerogel is being used by Nasa to collect samples from other planets, but I did not even dream that it could be chemically altered. I presumed that this would change its density, resulting in a completely solid feel. But I guess I was wrong.
I do believe that this could be used for good, but I don't think that people could really make money on it. Any scientist that has access to a blender and polymers can create it! However, this is a good thing. People could mass-produce this and then oil spills would be much easier to clean up.
That is really cool that there is something that can clean up the oil spills. I would have liked the article to be longer, it barely gave any information except for the formula.
This was interesting to read. I also agree with Johnny when he said that it got really repetitive towards the end of the article. I think it was interesting to learn that they have found a new way to clean up oil spills. I agree with Claire on how it was interesting to read that 96% air 2% clay and 2% polymer can clean up oil.
Aerogel could really help the world, because of all the oil spills that are happening. With Aerogel the amount of oil spills may stay the same but its duration and affect may be different. We may conserve more drinking water, stop more fire hazards, stop oil from damaging farmland, beaches, wildlife, and habitats. Aerogel will hopefully make the harm last a lot less than a decade. Aerogel is also really cool in how it is made; being pretty a pretty simple task that could help millions of people and sea life. I like how the article was well explained and was easy to read. It was a great learning experience as well as a fun article.
this is a great discovery that could really help with future oil spills! its really great how it can be squeezed out again and be reused.
I can't believe this new "thing" is made up of something around us! I mean air?! How is that possible??? Using this can be a great step towards our future. I agree with Noah, about this new material having a low price, or cost. I also agree with Sayahn about seeing this new material in ACTION!
I think that this is great, and im glad that people are trying to make more effective ways of getting rid of oil spills. This is especially good since you can re-use the oil, but the only thing i wish they would talk more about in this article is how exactly its made...and as Brandon F said it probably is expensive...
I think that the discovery in itself is amazing, although I find the style of writing of the article terrible. It's amazing that we found something so cool and efficient at the same time. I know it repeats over and over that the oil can be reused, but, my question is, WHAT ABOUT THE WATER????? I mean, if it's supposedly drinking water at the base, then is the water PERFECTLY clean so that we can drink it or just clean enough to not affect the animals that drink it? I think that the article is a little repetitive, so that it is unnecessarely long. It just says over and over that we found a perfect absorbant and that we can use the oil again. The words are also very repetitive. I must ask, though... what about the price? Like Emma said, they seem to focus on the good things...
This is really cool. The thought of absorbing the oil and being able to get it out is perfect. We don't loose any oil in the process. With the world wide oil shortage it is worse then ever to have an oil spill. Now it is still bad, but not as bad with this technology.
The discovery of aerogel was epic! Also, this article was pretty well written. This could really help in cleaning up oil spills (like Claire said) because of how it likes oil and hates water. This also proves an observation Emma and I made during our material clean-up experimenting: if the sorbent cleaners absorbed too much water, oil would not go in.
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