You're going to need to put a lot of solar panels in your back yard to handle all that.
Posted on 08/24/2022 7:12:06 AM PDT by Salman
If you're despairing at recent reports that Earth's water sources have been thoroughly infested with hazardous human-made chemicals called PFAS that can last for thousands of years, making even rainwater unsafe to drink, there's a spot of good news. Chemists have developed a simple way to break down almost a dozen types of these nearly indestructible 'forever chemicals' at relatively low temperatures with no harmful byproducts.
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(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
This one simple trick . . .
The dreaded polyfluoroalkyl!
OK.
But what about the things that fish do in the water!!!
Being near teetotaler, the W. C. Fields method is not for me.
Carbon dioxide is a byproduct. Doomsday re-engaged.
Don’t UVs break all these chemicals up eventually?
According to THE ARTICLE ...
Yes.
Eventually. <<=== Emphasis
The authors developed a process for breakdown that proceeds quickly, rather than “eventually”.
Unless the chemicals act as catalysts (i.e., chems that cause a reaction without changing themselves) they will degrade themselves whenever they harm anyone or anything. So, they are not forever.
Sounds like scaremongering. The same type that is throw out when some pinhead starts whinging on about radioactive elements. If something is long-lived (e.g., a half life in millions of years) then unless you are near a grandiose amount of it, it is harmless to you. The stuff that lasts for long, long times is fairly innocuous. It is the short-lived stuff that will get you.
What, we make the dangerous chemicals into gummy bears?
Will Microwave do the same????
I drink rain water quality tested by squirrels.
Well we have been blocking that beneficial UV with that darned Ozone Layer.
Better work to deplete that Ozone Layer.
That will save us.
“In a paper published today in the journal Science, the researchers show that in water heated to just 176 to 248 degrees Fahrenheit,”
Can you imagine the energy and cost to heat all the water to that temperature? That’s way hotter than your hot water heater.
LOL
...is called Evaporation.
‘forever chemicals’ Another leftist BS phrase like “ghost guns” and “cop killer bullets”.
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