Regarding waste; nuclear waste can be turned into diamond batteries.
If they manage to release, the idea is that small cell batteries can self-recharge themselves practically forever (20,000ish years?). Battery dead? Remove it, swap it, wait. Battery dead? Insert the one you removed previously, the Uranium inside replenished the charge.
Neat stuff given that it is made from waste byproduct.
For what it’s worth, DARPA has been working on eliminating malaria carrying mosquitos specifically this in mind. Mosquitos make up a large percentage of the diet of bats, it’s true, but malaria carrying mosquitos only make up a small portion of that, primarily in areas where the disease is most prevalent.
It shouldn’t have any effect other than the genetic elimination of a disease carrying pest. It won’t affect mosquitoes getting you in the summertime because our mosquitoes aren’t the focus of this project.
What makes its limitation 500 gallons “per day”?