Magic Beads
- Category: New Tech
- Published: 2014-Apr-08
- Author: Gordon Cope
A modest device may hold the solution to a massive oilsands headache
The beads are small (about the size of a breath mint), pale blue and shiny; a large container of them would fit right in at the bottom of a child’s play slide. But the high-tech devices could crack one of the oilsands’ most intractable problems: tailings ponds.