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Although DDT is a (modestly) toxic substance, there is a world of difference between applying large amounts of it in the environment – as farmers did before it was banned – and using it carefully and sparingly to fight mosquitoes and other disease-carrying insects.

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It's being produced in large amounts, 150 to 180 metric tons per year in the Canary Islands in Peru, and it's big business.

And what they're finding is that even trace amounts of oil and dispersants can be highly toxic to phytoplankton, which is very bad news, because so much life depends on it.

It takes about 30 seconds to go through the whole machine and is generating enormous amounts of information that comes out of the machine.

And in that simulation, what we could do is design for you specifically a sequence of treatments, and it might be very gentle treatments, very small amounts of drugs.

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