According to foreign media reports, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists have developed a group can effectively absorb the spill nanotechnology robot solar energy, these robots can be removed within one month, the Gulf of Mexico the size of the spill. And this development is not only concentrated in the built environment using sensors and the first hand-held electronic devices, but also indicates that this kind of nano-materials can absorb oil spills will be in the next four years would bring positive effects.
It is learned that long-solar nano-materials robot 16 feet (4.8 meters) wide and 7 feet (2.1 meters) and weighs 35 pounds (16 kg). The robot's "head" unit has two square solar panels, they can use solar power to drive the robot into the water slide freely. When the robot in the water "around the patrol", the robot body's absorption of nano-vortex machine will play the role of oil - whirlpool machine in a thin flexible belt will be chosen for the adsorption oil spill work.
Now widely used around the world not only the design style skimmer old (has not been updated for decades), and monthly maintenance should be entrusted to the shore several times. Compared to this old skimmer, solar nano-materials will make future oil robot to work faster, safer, more efficient, scientists have discovered through testing, each robot only needs 100 watts that can last for several weeks to , if the number 5000 to 10,000 units within the scope of the robot on the surface of the water non-stop work, less than a month removed from the Gulf of Mexico will be a big area of oil spills, each robot can be moved per hour take the number of gallons of oil. Therefore, nano-robots are expected to work in the future oil fields are common. This solar nano-materials robot current average price of ten thousand dollars to between twenty thousand dollars.
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