With the support of the Geisse Foundation, we're now in the research phase of creating a high-flow sand filter that will allow us to address the issue of turbidity, of particulate matter in the water. With this upstream filter, we'll be able to filter out solids, and make water look as clean and safe as it really is.
So with natural gas and petroleum, there's not that much downside to burning the stuff, actually, if you can take the really dangerous things, the particulates and the carbon dioxide out of it and bury it. So that's a promising piece of technology.
by scientists from Harvard and three British universities. And they conclude that particulate pollution only-- that's just one aspect of the pollution produced by fossil fuel combustion-- is responsible for 9 million premature deaths annually.
And yes, I said look for a smell, because they can see vapor trails. They can see the particulate that makes up scent. So they see smell.
So we'd rather burn it to completion than just dump it outside. And that's the particulate smoke, either in droplets or solid particles that get emitted.
quality, in particular fine particulate matter concentrations in the United States over the last 20 years. And the main driver of particulate matter concentration reductions was non-attainment standards, basically county-level maximum air pollution that we allow, that is dictated under the Clean Air Act Amendments.
You got to sequester my carbon. You got to sequester my particulate matter. We have got this laundry list of all these things that nature now needs to do for us.
First, the open-fire cooking produces a long list of noxious chemicals, like benzene, and methane, and toluene. But the black carbon and particulate matter is especially impactful on climate change. It's estimated that open-fire cooking in the world produces more climate change emissions than the one billion cars on the planet.
And now, our stoves are independently verified by third-party testing labs and by hundreds of users in the field to consistently accomplish the following results. They reduce carbon monoxide and particulate matter emissions by 90%. They cut fuel use by 75%-90%.
to change the existing system, even if it were available right now. And what that means to all the particulate matter in the atmosphere now. So pretty much it is already going to be a tremendous challenge.
most obvious area of improvement in the overall smog levels where it shows green but if you look a little close more closely in ozone and particulate matter particulates come from diesel fuel and they're very small particles and they can get actually get into your lungs and your bloodstream much easier because of the smallness of
By Janet Currie and co-authors, published in one of the leading economics journals, that looks at the improvements in air quality, in particular fine particulate matter concentrations in the United States over the last 20 years. And the main driver of particulate matter concentration reductions was non-attainment standards,
In nine out of these 11 indicators, our stoves are ranked four. These indicators primarily measure emissions-- including carbon monoxide and particulate matter-- produced at both high and low powers. In the world of stoves, high power means the power you need to bring a pot of food to a boil, or a pot of water to a boil in the lab.
higher rates of illness and lethargy and glue than the richer communities and in the diesel engine you know which has reduced the particulate pretty well and
It turned out to be the most disadvantaged folks on average And so when we cleaned up the dirtiest places, which was something that is economically efficient to do because we have a sense that fine particulates are very harmful, and so it was worth it to do so, that also had a bigger benefit for more disadvantaged folks in the US.
that might be able to fall into the fog tank. So we want to remove any of those particulates . We then boil to ensure the water is sanitary, and just filter one more time to make sure it's nice and clean.
I called the South African Heritage Resource Agency, because there's actually cell phone coverage at the site, to get permission to take it out. in the journal "Nature." And inside of that were food particulates .
But it pales by comparison with 9 million premature deaths annually from fossil fuels. And again, that's only from the particulate pollution produced by fossil fuels. It doesn't take into account climate change or any other bad things that fossil fuels do.
The plumes would go in the mesosphere. And they would dump a huge degree of effectively dust and small particulate matter around the earth. That leads to global nuclear winter.
from these diseases, but rather in quantifying the health impact of stoves like these to address those deaths. So the public health community argues that you need a 90% reduction in particulate matter in order to mitigate the risk of respiratory disease.
problem we use two hundred sixty thousand gallons of diesel a year we said 10 years ago eight years ago what if we use biodiesel you make it out of soybeans or rapeseed oil or or even french fry grease and it reduces particulate emission which is the big problem with diesel not exactly a climate problem but you could argue there's some benefits with climate well
I think that's the fourth least happy day. rooms at LSE, that high levels of particulates in the exam room increase students' probability of failing their exam by about 5%.
And the treadmill is crazy. over the Saharan Desert right here and it's probably dust and sand particulates that's just floating around in the atmosphere.
All of which are gases, so there's no particulate to scatter light.
wrong about very many things, but the idea that there was a smallest particulate form of matter is right. So it's kind of funny. You talk-- You
done this great epidemiological data that estimates the years of life lost by an additional amount of particulate matter, something like an actual year of life
Now I was in love, and the land was dimensional and heavy and particulate .
So the light in this room is made up of so many photons that it's really hard to notice the particulate nature of it.
So we've used the rocket architecture to improve the fuel economy. And then we've used our air injection technology to make sure each gram of fuel released is 90% less particulate matter. And did you consider any exhaust solutions because burning the fuel more cleanly is one good way.
oxides of nitrogen, hydrocarbons, particulate matter by 25 percent increase in the air pollution from the coal. So it's nothing close to clean. In fact, it's about 50 times more CO2 per
There are perhaps a half a million or a million such deaths in China and other places where the particulates are even larger.
And similarly, the gravitational waves are made up of so many gravitons that it's impossible to notice the particulate nature of it.
Because we're actually digging up these 100 millions of years of stored solar energy and burning them for electricity, and setting all the particulate matter and all that carbon
And we also compared true methods, a filtration method, where you elute the soil particulates in a buffer and then filter to get rid of the soil particles.
Group, says that there are 13,000 deaths a year from respiratory illnesses caused by inhalation of small particulates , 2.5 microns in diameter and less.
You can see us wearing goggles and masks because for the first time someone's going in there in a zero-g environment. So there could be metal shavings, dust particulates , and it's