new biotoxin for paint to prevent barnacles from growing.

[ithon]

[url]http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=proposed-paint-beats-barnacles-13-07-15&ref=worth[/url]

[quote]Currently, hull paint can be doped with poison, usually based on copper oxide, that leaches out slowly to kill the little critters. But the poison also escapes into the water and can kill other marine life.[/quote]
[quote]It’s a toxin based on a molecule created by a bacterium. The researchers developed a method of embedding that toxin into the paint so that it only gets released when the barnacle penetrates the paint.[/quote]

[Computrix]

If the paint fails to stop them we can always go back to using these
[img]http://combineoverwiki.net/images/thumb/6/63/Explosive_barrel.jpg/88px-Explosive_barrel.jpg[/img]

[ironman17]

Well, sounds handy for keeping hulls clean, but hopefully the paint won't be able to leach into the water and wreck the shit of nearby non-boatbound barnacles.

[A_Pigeon]

[QUOTE=ironman17;41498424]Well, sounds handy for keeping hulls clean, but hopefully the paint won't be able to leach into the paint and wreck the shit of nearby non-boatbound barnacles.[/QUOTE]

Paint usually sticks to paint.

Hopefully they can keep it from mixing with itself.

[_Kayla_]

[QUOTE=ironman17;41498424]Well, sounds handy for keeping hulls clean, but hopefully the [B]paint[/B] won't be able to [B]leach into the paint[/B] and wreck the shit of nearby non-boatbound barnacles.[/QUOTE]

Yes, it be awful to have paint in the paint.

I get what you mean, but couldn't stop myself.

[ironman17]

I have no idea why I typed paint twice; I don't even use those scripts that turn words into other words.

[A_Pigeon]

[QUOTE=The golden;41500405]Ok so the barnacle penetrates the paint, gets poisoned, and dies. It either falls off or is removed during routine cleaning leaving the patch of paint which the barnacle has now broken into. Would this not start leaking toxins?[/QUOTE]

Barnacle eats paint, paint poisonous, barnacle dies.

[Wappen]

I don't know how safe this stuff can be made; but the though of biotoxins being used underneath the waterline of a boat doesn't sound right to me. Would this stuff be used on buoys or even large ships?

[Deunan]

[QUOTE=Callinstead;41500911]I don't know how safe this stuff can be made; but the though of biotoxins being used underneath the waterline of a boat doesn't sound right to me. Would this stuff be used on buoys or even large ships?[/QUOTE]

The paints that are currently used are much much worse as they continously leak poisons. This one is different in that it only does it on barnacle contact.

[Xieneus]

oh barnacles