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BinarySculpture t1_j0i2lw8 wrote
So much money in O&G exploration and research that companies discover stuff years, sometimes decades, before the academics. Papers were coming out about the impact crater in the Gulf of Mexico and the scientists at Chevron basically said, "yeah, we know".
JustABitCrzy t1_j0l6isf wrote
It’s a shame that businesses are so incentivised to keep those sorts of things to themselves. It’s a big issue in the environmental sector. Companies make a mistake and never share it, so other companies make the same mistake.
ChalupaCabre t1_j0lf8qs wrote
The beauty of capitalism!
Orack t1_j0pz7f2 wrote
Do you think a communist government would be more likely to share their failures with the public?
Frankenfucker t1_j0grae3 wrote
They made Ubercrete from Wofenstein: The New Order.
chrisdh79 OP t1_j0gnc4a wrote
From the article: Professor Yan Zhuge, an engineering expert at the University of South Australia, is trialing a novel solution. It involves no humans or bots but self-healing concrete.
The world-first project, if successful, could be a significant help. It could prevent 17,000 kilometers of sewer pipes in Australia from cracking in the future without any intervention by humans, helping to save $1.4 billion in annual maintenance costs, as per a release.
"We are confident this novel self-healing concrete based on advance composite technology will address issues of sewer pipe corrosion and sludge disposal in one hit," Zhuge said in a statement.
The microcapsules will release healing agents when pH value changes
Every year, hundreds of millions of dollars are required to treat sewage pipes buckling under internal pressure, temperature fluctuations, and corrosive acid. Self-healing concrete, in the form of microcapsules filled with water treatment sludge, could change everything.
"Sludge waste shows promise to mitigate microbial corrosion in concrete sewer pipes because it works as a healing agent to resist acid corrosion and heal the cracks," Zhuge said.
According to the release, researchers will develop microcapsules with a pH-sensitive shell and a healing agent core with alum sludge, a by-product of wastewater treatment plants, and calcium hydroxide powder. This combination will be resistant to microbially induced corrosion.
FuturologyBot t1_j0gse5b wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/chrisdh79:
From the article: Professor Yan Zhuge, an engineering expert at the University of South Australia, is trialing a novel solution. It involves no humans or bots but self-healing concrete.
The world-first project, if successful, could be a significant help. It could prevent 17,000 kilometers of sewer pipes in Australia from cracking in the future without any intervention by humans, helping to save $1.4 billion in annual maintenance costs, as per a release.
"We are confident this novel self-healing concrete based on advance composite technology will address issues of sewer pipe corrosion and sludge disposal in one hit," Zhuge said in a statement.
The microcapsules will release healing agents when pH value changes
Every year, hundreds of millions of dollars are required to treat sewage pipes buckling under internal pressure, temperature fluctuations, and corrosive acid. Self-healing concrete, in the form of microcapsules filled with water treatment sludge, could change everything.
"Sludge waste shows promise to mitigate microbial corrosion in concrete sewer pipes because it works as a healing agent to resist acid corrosion and heal the cracks," Zhuge said.
According to the release, researchers will develop microcapsules with a pH-sensitive shell and a healing agent core with alum sludge, a by-product of wastewater treatment plants, and calcium hydroxide powder. This combination will be resistant to microbially induced corrosion.
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Lead_weight t1_j0gworx wrote
I work in the oil industry, and we’ve had self healing cements for at least ten years. If cracked, hydrocarbons in the well react with the cement to heal it. It’s amazing what can be created if enough money is dumped into an industry. As our company begins its foray into new energy, we’ll start to see these technologies spread outside of the oil industry at a greater pace.