1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Okay, let's do it. Oh, it's me. It's me. Hold on. Okay. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,000 I've been to you many times. Are we feeling good? Are we feeling bad? 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Are we feeling uncertain between good and bad feelings or feeling like science? 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,000 I think we're feeling good. Let's feel good. 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Let's feel good. Okay, let's see what we got. Let's do this one. 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:33,000 It's a true feel good story for the ages. And the article is from the get out of here. 7 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:36,000 I can't read it. The Wall Street Journal and it's titled, 8 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,000 Some researchers are looking for Bigfoot. Just don't tell anybody. 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:46,000 I Chris Mayhur. It's a little bit old, but I feel like it's timeless, this sort of thing. 10 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Well, that now makes me sad that they haven't found Bigfoot. 11 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,000 Hold on. Hold on. 12 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:59,000 I have to pull out. It's behind the paywall. Sorry, guys. 13 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:06,000 Oh, no. It's bad news. It's quickly becoming bad news. 14 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,000 That's way too much bad news for a good news story. 15 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,000 I should have checked into that before I fucking read it. 16 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Okay, let's see. Let's go with this one. 17 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:21,000 It has nothing to do with Bigfoot, unfortunately, but let's just go with this one. 18 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,000 It's still in the good news column. And this one is from more recent. 19 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,000 It's more recent being July 6, 2023. 20 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:31,000 And this is from is.org. It's in physics, I assume. 21 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,000 At FIZZ. And it's titled, 22 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Chemists develop sustainable method to remove forever chemicals from water. 23 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,000 Boy, is that ever a good news story. 24 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:41,000 That is good news. 25 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:47,000 So, poor floral alcohol substances for PFOS are highly versatile chemicals. 26 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:52,000 The fluorine containing organic molecules, this is already too many words I can't pronounce, 27 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,000 are the reason why raindrops simply slide off outdoor jackets. 28 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,000 They are used in the grease-proof coating of paper food packaging 29 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,000 and are key ingredients in fire extinguisher foams and blah, blah, blah. 30 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,000 You guys have seen the law of this. 31 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,000 Yeah, blah, blah, blah. They're used everywhere. 32 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,000 And that's why it's a problem because they are so inert 33 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,000 and there are no natural pathways, which they can be broken down. 34 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000 They're pretty much everywhere in our environment and they're very bad for us. 35 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:27,000 They've now been detected all over the planet in water, soil and air, in plants, animals and in us. 36 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Just how much of a health risk these chemicals pose is still not clear, but we know it's bad for us. 37 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:38,000 They may impair reproductive health and what's clear is these synthetic compounds do not belong 38 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,000 in the natural environment and certainly not in living organisms. 39 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,000 So PFOS remediation is both complex and challenging 40 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:52,000 and the processes used can themselves have a detrimental impact on the environment and the climate. 41 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Oh, good. 42 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Yeah. 43 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Good news. 44 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,000 This is turning into bad news. I hope it gets better. 45 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Before they can be removed, the PFOS have to be detected. 46 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Detection has not made any easier by the fact that only small quantities of PFOS are required for a large effect. 47 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Conventionally, PFOS have been removed from water by filtration using special membranes 48 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 or lower cost activated carbon absorbance. 49 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:22,000 However, recovering the PFOS from these filter systems so that they can be permanently destroyed 50 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:26,000 either requires the use of harsh chemical conditions or incineration. 51 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,000 At least that has been the case up until now. 52 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:36,000 A team of researchers led by Marcus Gally, professor of polymer chemistry at Sarland University, 53 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Professor Xiaosu from the University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign 54 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:47,000 and their doctoral students Frank Hartman and Paola Baldegas 55 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:53,000 have developed a new electrochemical method that can remove the PFOS chemicals from water 56 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,000 and then efficiently release them again for destruction. 57 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,000 I'm really glad it said destruction and not back into the environment. 58 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,000 The whorehouse. 59 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:08,000 The new PFOS remediation platform allows these fluorinated contaminants to be collected, identified and then destroyed 60 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,000 without needing to incinerate the filter. 61 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:15,000 The research is published in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 62 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:24,000 In the method developed by the research team, the central role is played by metal containing polymers known as metallocenes. 63 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Metalocenes first came on the scene in 1951 with the discovery of the iron containing molecule ferrocene. 64 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Since then, many other metallocenes have been reported. 65 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Frank, Marcus and their international team have found that electrodes functionalized with ferrocene 66 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:48,000 or even more efficiently with, oh god damn it, cobaltocene synthesized by Frank 67 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:53,000 are able to remove even minute quantities of PFOS molecules from water. 68 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Let's see if there's anything else we want to cover. 69 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Essentially, they're saying we found a means by which PFOS can be efficiently removed from water and then released again, 70 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,000 effectively regenerating the electrode for further use. 71 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Unlike the activated carbon filter, which I have to destroy once it's become saturated with PFOS molecules, 72 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,000 I can switch the metal seams a thousand times should I want to, 73 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 summarizing the significance of his research work. 74 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,000 So that's overall good news. 75 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Yeah, I worry it's kind of like when you hear those good news research studies on cancer. 76 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,000 This drug completely eliminates cancer. 77 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,000 And then just like you never hear about it again. 78 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Yeah, that's true. 79 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,000 I'm worried it's just in its infancy and it's theoretical at this point. 80 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:37,000 No, that's completely true. 81 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,000 But it does sound like it's a little bit further along. 82 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:45,000 And it's not like you have to study it on like mice beforehand and then transfer it and see if it's good in humans because it's just water. 83 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,000 True, I feel like it could immediately, yeah, and the PFOS are there anyway. 84 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,000 So what's the harm in like, you know, trying to take them out, you're not going to make them worse. 85 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:57,000 I feel like maybe I shouldn't say that because you might be able to make them work. 86 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:04,000 I feel like in listening to the news, I hear it being talked about more and more. 87 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,000 So that might be a good thing. 88 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,000 But yeah, it shows people are listening to Journey to the Fringe. 89 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Further news ideas. 90 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,000 But like you say, like people are talking about cancer and cancer research. 91 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:24,000 So that, yeah. And yes, I should also say just with that being said about the cancer thing, cancer research and treatments are always getting better. 92 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,000 It's just the headlines are a little not out there, but overinflated, I guess. 93 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,000 How far the treatments would go in their research. 94 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,000 That's all I meant by that. Yeah. 95 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:39,000 I'm just curious what this treatment will introduce to the environment now that we cannot deal with. 96 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Yeah. And that's leaving it off with the bad news, I guess. 97 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Yeah, you always got to balance it. 98 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Okay, that's it. Unless we have anything else to add. 99 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:55,000 No, I think that's it. I hope this holds you all over for those 48 hours. 100 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:01,000 I'm not sure why we decide 48 hours is the amount of time that you need to pull over to Friday, but it is. It just is. 101 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,000 We crunched the numbers. It was the perfect amount of time. 102 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,000 And let's not talk about those other five days in between. 103 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,000 But that's neither here nor there. 104 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:14,000 You guys wait your 48 hours. You have been satiated. We will see you Friday.