{"id":1995289,"date":"2023-08-09T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-a-former-nasa-engineer-hopes-to-clean-up-the-worlds-dirtiest-waterways\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T12:05:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T16:05:54","slug":"heres-how-a-former-nasa-engineer-hopes-to-clean-up-the-worlds-dirtiest-waterways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-a-former-nasa-engineer-hopes-to-clean-up-the-worlds-dirtiest-waterways\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NASA engineer aims to purify the world&#8217;s filthiest water bodies."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fheres-how-a-former-nasa-engineer-hopes-to-clean-up-the-worlds-dirtiest-waterways%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1995289&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Former NASA Engineer is Using Innovative Technology to Clean Up Contaminated Waterways<\/h2>\n<p>A former NASA engineer, Sergie &#8220;Serg&#8221; Albino, is revolutionizing\u200d water remediation by utilizing NASA&#8217;s emulsified zero-valent\u2063 iron filtration system. Albino&#8217;s company, ecoSPEARS, is dedicated to permanently clearing waterways of hazardous pollutants such as dioxins, PCBs,\u2062 and PFAS, also \u200bknown\u2062 as &#8220;forever \u2062chemicals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The SPEARS, which are already deployed in various\u2063 cities across the United States\u2063 and \u2064around the world, have proven to be highly effective. Recently, Albino and his\u200d team \u2063embarked on a mission to clean\u200c up the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C., one of the nation&#8217;s most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-train-derailment-justice-department-suing-norfolk-southern-over-february-derailment\/\" title=\"Ohio train derailment: Justice Department suing Norfolk Southern over February derailment\">polluted waterways<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>A Breakthrough Solution\u2064 for\u2064 Challenging Water Remediation<\/h3>\n<p>The Anacostia River is teeming with harmful contaminants that exceed federal limits, including PCBs, dioxins, and other toxins. Albino\u2062 sees the SPEARS as an ideal solution for \u200bthis challenging environment, \u200bas the area\u2062 contains large mud flats and shallow\u200d water levels that make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-kabul-heroin-user-encampment-growing-under-taliban\/\" title=\"Report: Kabul Heroin User Encampment Growing Under Taliban\">traditional methods<\/a> like dredging nearly impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Albino explains, &#8220;The \u200bspikes are ideally\u200d great to be\u200c there for a long-term extraction of contaminants because as long as they&#8217;re there, they&#8217;re absorbing contaminations, they don&#8217;t get to the fish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Albino and his team\u200b recently retrieved the SPEARS from the Anacostia River for evaluation. These innovative devices, slightly wider and longer than a test tube, \u2063were carefully brought ashore for analysis. Albino is optimistic \u200cabout their ability to clean the river,\u2062 as they \u200chave already successfully eliminated PCBs at the Benning Road station.<\/p>\n<h3>An Eco-Friendly\u200c and Scalable Solution<\/h3>\n<p>The SPEARS contain an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-political-activism-and-influence-of-bill-gates\/\" title=\"The Political Activism And Influence of Bill Gates\">eco-friendly<\/a> solvent and are placed in waterways for approximately 12 months to extract and destroy harmful chemicals. Albino emphasizes that this method is &#8220;greener, sustainable, and scalable&#8221; compared to other solutions. The SPEARS can remain in place for an extended period, allowing for effective remediation without the typical \u200bchallenges associated with cleaning a river.<\/p>\n<p>Albino describes the SPEARS as working like a sponge, absorbing PCBs and other chlorinated contaminants from water and sediments.\u200c The molecules are permanently removed from the environment when the SPEARS are \u2064retrieved.<\/p>\n<p>This groundbreaking technology was initially \u2064developed by Albino and his \u200bteam while working to remove pollutants from the waters surrounding the Kennedy Space Center. The success of their reagent in attracting\u200b and trapping contaminants led to the creation of ecoSPEARS.<\/p>\n<h3>A Cost-Effective and Environmentally Friendly Solution<\/h3>\n<p>Traditional \u2064methods of\u200d water remediation, such as incineration or \u2062transportation \u200cto federally managed wastewater sites, can be costly, invasive, and environmentally harmful. However, with \u200cthe SPEARS, Albino explains \u2062that these measures are\u200c unnecessary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-a-former-nasa-engineer-hopes-to-clean-up-the-worlds-dirtiest-waterways\/\" title=\"Former NASA engineer aims to purify the world's filthiest water bodies.\">making water remediation\u2062 potentially cheaper<\/a> and\u200b more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-conservatives-crusade-to-save-americas-soil\/\" title=\"A Conservative\u2019s Crusade to Save America\u2019s Soil\">environmentally friendly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Transporting or incinerating polluted water requires dredging, which can harm\u200b waterways, marine life, and even release buried contaminants. The\u2062 SPEARS offer a better \u200balternative, eliminating \u200dthe need for such destructive \u200cpractices.<\/p>\n<p>Albino&#8217;s innovative technology is already being utilized in waterways worldwide, \u2064including Guam, \u200bnorthern\u200c Sweden, and the Port of \u2064San Diego.\u2063 The Coast Guard\u2064 is also evaluating the SPEARS for\u200c use in other Pacific islands due to their cost-effectiveness compared to traditional methods.<\/p>\n<p>Albino concludes, &#8220;We believe that there&#8217;s a better \u200dway to achieve cleaning up the environment, as opposed to\u200d just digging it up and\u200c hauling it away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click \u2064here<\/a> to read \u2063more from the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NASA engineer, Sergie Albino, is utilizing his expertise to tackle toxic pollutants globally. His work in removing hazardous substances at the Kennedy Space Center led to the creation of ecoSPEARS. Now, Albino is applying this clean-tech water remediation technology to clean up highly contaminated groundwater sites worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1995290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}