University of Michigan engineers think they have come up with a way
to prevent more slimy things from swimming into the Great
Lakes as they continue to test their ballast-free cargo ship.Excerpt:
If there is one thing we Michiganders are proud of, it's our
abundance of water. The quality of that water or what swims in it sometimes,
well, sometimes not so much.
The proliferation of non-native species, such as zebra mussels and gobies, has become a hot issue
with environmentalists and water enthusiasts alike. But engineers at the University of Michigan
think they might have found a way to stem the tide of invasive critters
swimming into the Great Lakes basin by creating
designs for a ballast-free cargo ship.
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