Five eco friendly solutions for coral reef restoration

The eco conscious student of Industrial Design, Mr. Derek Bennion, has given the threat of extinction of coral reefs a really serious thought. Hence, he came up with the concept, Motorola Coral Rasa. He kept this name after the inspiration he got from the Great Barrier Reef in Indonesia. Rasa in Indonesian means sense. So, this hi tech device will comprise of sensors and advanced monitoring system. This will send out feedback on the underwater condition where coral reefs are there, in the form of audio and visual monitoring system. The alert will be intense when the device detects something really awful. This whole unit has three distinct parts. The lower most part has three legs. These legs spike securely into the ocean bed. The middle part comprises of all the battery and the hard dive equipment while the topmost part has equipment like camera, lens, hydrophone, water tester, LED etc.

Designer duo, Tom Kiser and William McDonough, were also concerned about the fate of the coral reefs. Thus, they designed an instrument that will absorb the harmful gases that circulate in the air and lead to green house effect. The device will be intensely functional as it will turn these harmful gases into harmless materials that will be safe to deposit even in the ocean beds without any harm of endangering the coral reefs in the process. The principal of working of this device will comprise of a series of rings made out of stainless steel that end up in a large surface area. Thus, when the harmful gases will enter inside the stainless steel rings of this liquid chimney will get flowed into the large surface if it is a liquid component and sprayed at the top of the chamber of this apparatus if it is gas. After recycling, the effluent will either flow out or expel from the chimney at the top.

Professor brothers, John Latham and Stephan Salter, came up with the conclusion that burning of fossil fuels is the chief culprit that sets the most harsh blow on the coral reefs. Thus, they invented equipment known as the Cloud-Seeding Yachts. These are yachts that run on wind power and aim at arresting global warming. The function of these highly advanced yachts will be to pump up the ocean waters into the clouds and make them get thicken so that they can reflect more solar energy back. This will encourage more sunrays to reflect back into the space instead of reverting back to earth and raising the temperature of earth as a consequence. This attempt will reduce global warming.

This coral reef restoration project will feature a number of conical tent collectors that will be mounted the coral reef off Key Largo. These cones will collect the sperms and eggs of the corals and send them to the testing jars. The fertilized eggs will further be taken back to the laboratory to culture test tube coral babies. Once they are matured, they will be sent back to the ocean and a fine mesh will be used to cover these artificial coral reefs.

Some eco conscious scientists have thought implementing the process of coral transplantation in order to restore these endangered coral reefs. The scientists believe this will be an economical measure to restore back the damaged and destroyed coral reefs. After some successful attempts, the scientist found that the corals respond well to this method of restoration by growing healthily and propagating at a much faster rate.