Concrete is vital for protecting our coastlines – but it comes at a huge environmental cost. An Israeli startup has found a way to make concrete sea defences that get stronger over time, while encouraging life to thrive.
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Great idea. Very innovative
Pity it's coming out of Israel. My BDS commitment has me veering away from it.
How I can invest in this company?
Kudos to you guys and it' nice to know others in the world that actually give a sh@t about the planet. Coastal protection should be a massive growing industry in the not so distant future if global warming delivers its promise of rising sea levels. I see tetrapods as the dominant man made structure used for the dissipation of wave energy so Im guessing the concrete used and of course the surface design could be tweaked following these ideas to give these structures more diverse function
Great idea. Very innovative
Strange. I have seen algae attach to old concrete along the coast line. This isn't life-changing. I'd rather question the formulation of concrete. Not how well sea life attaches to the surface, but of what damage that the harmful particles are that make up cement, remove those, and create a proper eco-friendly concrete. Not just sealing the harmful chemicals inside the product. Years of salt water movement will release the harmful chemicals.
These are the conversation I have with people when it comes to climate change. I don't even bother trying to convince them on the data. They don't care and I don't either. I tell people about the tech. People like the tech. When I tell people about Vertical Farming, they're fascinated about it and they like it because of the benefits it has. We have to start marketing green tech as a personal benefit, not as an immediate solution to an immediate threat. I'm sure they can convince more companies to care by providing them benefits as opposed to trying to gaslight them into buying their product to save the planet.
It's too bad they can't use some of that floating plastic in the ocean as a filler
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this is stupid. very stupid. just use rocks and stop using concrete. duh. also, bloomburg and isreal are both extreme evil and need to be destroyed.
Looks out of Legend of Zelda ruins
So do these things actually serve as a sea defense or not – look at the size of the armour rock/concrete uniuts they're placing it next too… Probably alright in low energy wave climates but no match for conventional units in actually protecting coastlines.
Mean while creating that concrete itself produces large carbon footprint… calcium carbonate in baked in klin to releasing co2 to form the cement itself
saving sea life and slaughtering Palestinians..
what a corrupted mentality
1:20 is she stoned? or just have red eye?
geeky scientist?
Great technology! thats why japan have its own special rocks under the water
bitch ur secret sauce.. so only u save tha world. is funny cus i tell the world crab grass contains taxol. used in chemotherapy.
Adding back Calcium Carbonate extracted brine from Seawater desalination is also non-toxic and should be used the extra surface area helps..
Thank you Godbless
Private Innovation is always superior to government actions. We need more capitalism and less bureaucrats.
Check vile a sin rot in piece it explains everything
We should make this mandatory in all major sea ports and expand to all ports.
If this company introduces this for Mumbai's coast like.. they'll go bankrupt.. the water is super clean here 😂
0:40 bet she meant tipping point not tilting.
Yesterday, we witnessed the killing of around 100 pilot whales in the Faroe Islands, the autonomous province of Denmark. Please do our best to let the cruel and destroy our home's things away from this world, too. Thank you…
Of course they wouldn't make the concrete an open source on how to make it….. profit is more important than marine like I guess.
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Bless you people
This is awesome🤘🏽💯
This is an infomercial pretending to be a news story.