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.
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
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
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 .
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
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.
and the CO2 carbon capture does not reduce any other pollutant aside from CO2. So you actually increase all the other pollutants like “socks” SO2, ammonia, knocks”, 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 unit energy than wind and 150 times more pollution per unit energy.
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. There are perhaps a half a million or a million such deaths in China and other places where the particulates are even larger. In the case of global warming, my concern mostly is food production.
And in a way, it is. 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 that was stored in the ground up into the atmosphere.
Coal emissions in the US, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, and according to the local Cambridge Clean Air Task Force 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. There are perhaps a half a million or a million such deaths in China and other places where the particulates are even larger.
The, once we get up there one of the first things we do is we open up the payload bay doors. We do that because the radiators are on the inside portion of the payload bay doors; 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