"Please make no mistake. Climate change is the biggest threat to global security that modern humans have ever faced." Sir David Attenborough.
No time to wait. #ActOnClimate#climate#energy#stopfossilfuels#go100re
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: Smithsonian Magazine
@LauraLoomer Your Islamophobic poison incites exactly this violence, then you smirk "false flag" & pivot to midterms like Muslim lives don't matter. Blood on your hands, ghoul. America First? Nah, hate first. 🖕
Those who claimed renewables can’t power Australia’s heavy industry must now confront reality. An Australian steel mill is sourcing majority renewable power — for the first time ever. The energy transition isn’t coming. It’s here.
https://t.co/CqtRDSpltx
Fantastic . Wish we,''d do this immediately in the US.. Mexico honoring their true Heritage Roots and taking Steps that Honor Mother Earth and Food people eat. Hurrah!!!!🌽🌽🌽💗
Trump is an illiterate sack of malignant narcissistic shit. His MAGA base is a drooling pack of dumbfuck enablers who lick his boots while he pisses in their mouths. He’s a fraud, a coward, a pathological liar & a pedophile. The fact that he’s still president is disgusting.
Friends, I’ve been around politics for over 50 years. I’ve never seen anything as brazenly crooked and corrupt as what Trump and his cronies did today.
BREAKING: Donald Trump suggests the United States could be in Iran for nearly two decades.
“Don’t rush me. We were in Vietnam for 18 years.”
He was never in Vietnam. He was a coward who lied about bone spurs. Don’t forget that.
This useless geriatric piece of shit had the audacity to call President Biden “Sleepy Joe.”
Why does this fucker keep waking up?
Go to the light old man. Go to the light.
Holy smokes. Raphael Warnock is mopping the floor with RFK Jr.
"Sir, even as you seem distracted while I talk to you about deadly diseases; I think you're dangerous to the American public, and you ought to be FIRED. If you're not fired, you ought to have the decency to RESIGN."
Mike Johnson REFUSED to meet with over 60 veterans who came to the Capitol to demand he stop funding Trump's war.
Any elected official who refuses to meet with a group of veterans and has them zip-tied and hauled off instead, does not deserve to serve in office.