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Damian Palin: Extragerea mineralelor din apă de mare

Filmed Feb 2012 • Posted Jun 2012TED2012
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Lumea are nevoie de apă potabilă și, din ce în ce mai mult, o extragem din oceane, o desalinizăm și apoi o bem. Dar ce se poate face cu saramura rezultată? În această intrigantă și scurtă disicuție, membrul TED, Damian Palin propune o idee: extragerea din saramură a mineralelor de care avem nevoie, prin colaborarea cu bacterii ronțăitoare de metale.

Damian Palin is developing a way to use bacteria to biologically "mine" minerals from water -- specifically, out of the brine left over from the desalinization process. Full bio »

Translated into Romanian by Codrut Dan
Reviewed by Delia Bogdan
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