So proud of this fellow Virginian and she is only 18 years old👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
An 18-year-old just did what billion-dollar water companies couldn't.
Meet Mia Heller.
A high school junior from Warrenton, Virginia who built a water filter in her garage that strips out 95.5% of microplastics from drinking water.
That's better than most government treatment plants, which sit somewhere between 70% and 90%.
Her secret weapon? Ferrofluid. A magnetized liquid made of oil and powder that latches onto microplastic particles. Then a magnet yanks them out. No membranes. No constant filter replacements. No endless maintenance bills.
The ferrofluid even gets recycled, around 87% of it, in a closed loop.
The spark for all of this wasn't a classroom project. It was a local newspaper article warning that her town's tap water was loaded with PFAS and microplastics, and that nobody was coming to fix it.
So she watched her mom swap out filter after filter and thought, there has to be a smarter way.
She built the prototype herself. Tested it with a homemade turbidity sensor. Then walked into the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair and walked out with a special award from the Patent and Trademark Office Society.
Up against nearly 1,700 students from 62 countries.
She's now eyeing a household version that sits under your kitchen sink.
The future of clean water might not come from a lab in Silicon Valley. It might come from a teenager's garage in Virginia.
Source-
@SmithsonianMag
John 14:12. Jesus says, "Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father." 🙏🏼💛
@XFreeze Neuralink is a much bigger breakthrough than most people realize.
Enabling people to control a computer with their mind and the completely blind to see are Jesus-level miracles.
@elonmusk@XFreeze John 14:12. Jesus says, "Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father."
@elonmusk@XFreeze John 14:12. Jesus says, "Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father."
🇺🇸| Nicki Minaj reveals what made her want to get into politics
—"Something happened a few months ago... Sometimes people can push you SO MUCH that they push you all the way into your next calling."
Source: @katiemillerpod
It’s time to ban cloud seeding in America
We have had multiple government officials come out and publicly say this is happening, it’s harming our health, and needs to be banned
We MUST pass a nationwide ban
What sensible forward thinking cutting edge leading nation is having a DEBATE on whether or not there should be VOTER ID?!?!!!! Like?!?!? They’re actually fighting NOT to have ppl present ID while voting for your leaders!!!!! Do you get it?!?!!!! Do you get it now?!?!!!
🚨 HOLY CRAP! CNN was just forced to report 83% PERCENT of Americans are with Nicki Minaj and want nationwide voter ID
This *includes* 71% of Democrats. 🔥
In fact — support for voter ID is at its highest level in YEARS! THERE IS NO EXCUSE. Pass the SAVE Act.
"Photo ID to vote, and the American people are with @NickiMinaj!"
"Look, I got all this polling on the screen going back since 2018. You'll notice on all of it, it's all north of 75%, 76%, 76%, 76%, 81%, and then 83% in the last year of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj they favor photo ID to be able to vote."
"You got 95% of Republicans, pretty much all of them, but even 71% of Democrats favor photo ID to vote."
"So again, Nicki Minaj posting that on X. And what you see is that the American people, actually, it's not really all that controversial!"
"The American people are with Nicki Minaj, whether they are Republican or even if they are Democrats. We're talking about 7 in 10 Democrats agreeing with Nicki Minaj that you, in fact, should show a voter photo ID to vote."