Human hands have brought our oceans to a crisis point, but these same hands have the power to change that bit-by-bit… with a little bit of help from 3D printing.
"[MARS] was the catalyst for starting the lab and continuing down a path of digital fabrication for marine restoration projects," Goad told RN Blueprint.
Designers can print objects with a multitude of materials simultaneously, with exceptionally fine detail — even replicating things like skin and organ tissue. As Goad points out, his artificial reef blocks are "only one of a million different restoration tools being used at the moment".If you're reading this in Australia, chances are you live within 50 kilometres of the ocean, like around 85 per cent of Australians.", because urban sprawl isn't just a phenomenon that happens on land.
Sydney Harbour, for example, has 50 per cent of its coast wrapped up in artificial structures. The platform that holds up the Sydney Opera House is one obvious example.
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