Just about every living creature on earth has these chemicals in their bodies already. The water and earth are contaminated with them, and there's no possible way to coat the entire earth and waterways with this new substance to remove them. Even if you could, what do you do with them after you've removed them?

It's a feel-good story, but totally impossible to implement.

I don't like being the bearer of bad tidings, but I try to be realistic.

How exactly are you going to treat all the water in lakes, streams and rivers? How are you going to treat the rain?

I wonder what would discourage adoption of this technique? Scale, power requirements, etc.?

Then again, can we afford not to further poison ourselves into oblivion?

for their own water supply within a matter of couple mere years. The rest of us? Well, water sources are as prolific as people … so think Flint, Michigan.

And after it’s collected on a magnet we can store it safely with nuclear waste, right? And the companies that made millions creating these chemicals in the first place are going to pay for the process, right?

Yes, this is wonderful news and limitless good karma and money to the brilliant scientists who developed this process. Hopefully we can manage to teach enough Critical Race Theory that this technology can be used first in predominantly poor communities of color that compose our "cancer alleys" and in poor countries where multinational corporations are more powerful than the governments.

Sorry, long day at work.

Otherwise, yeah, it's kind of a non-scalable solution if it's a one-time use material.

I'll have to look for the paper. I'm really interested in what the sorbent consists of.
I did a lot of this type of P-Chem in my time.
Intriguing.