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  • The products of combustion of hydrocarbons are CO2 and H2O. The products of complex molecules of heavy metals are complex products. These do not just disappear when you burn them! Beginning chem students even know about the Law of Conservation of Matter. I would not want these chemicals in my water or the air. Instead, let's find an alternative to burning or putting them in water.

  • You cannot obliterate elements in a furnace. That's just industry baloney. Elements are never obliterated by chemistry. They are unchangeable except by nuclear decay, fission, or fusion. Even then they are not obliterated. Even if this guy figured out a way to send them to another dimension, they would still exist in that other dimension. Is he talking down to you? Or is he lying to you?

  • Where do the combustion products of burning hazardous products go? Are they better off in the air?

  • Some products are trapped - others go into the atmosphere. Many trapped products are then dumped into the water. Some you drink - others you breathe. Many can give you cancer, clog your lungs, mess-up protein folding, etc. Toxins that were safely trapped for billions of years below ground in a lump of coal, etc are set free where they can kill you or make you sick.

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  • You can't get rid of lead and mercury - or any element by burning them. Burning them just causes them to be released into the atmosphere. Having lived next to neville island, I should know. They collect lead and mercury and other toxin contaminated activated charcoal and burn it off into the PGH sky. Vomit

  • You've got your work cut out for you in PGH/Oakland/Neville Island area. Carnegie and Mellon were 2 of the worst polluters ever. Their companies still run your area, and the bull levels are really high. See if you can get the female hormones out of the water supply. Get the sulfuric and hydrochloric acid out of the air. Industry made your town a mess. I doubt that industry backed chemistry will fix it.

  • As a student who has taken one of Terry's classes on green chemistry, I can tell you that TAML is designed to break up hormones in the water supply from various drug metabolites (think prozac, birth control, valium, etc), NOT to get rid of lead and mercury.

  • T states that burning toxins makes them go away. That's wrong, & TAML will not detoxify toxic elements in ligands. Pollution is not a disposal problem, it is the creation problem of taking toxins out stable environments and letting them loose into the water and atmosphere. Industry, would like to keep the public's concern to a minimum. His simplification goes a long way to keeping the public ignorant & unconcerned. Ultimately, disposal methods are like putting a bandaid on an amputation.

  • PGH/Oakland/Neville Island is a filthy, polluted mess where they incinerate all kinds of things - including Pb and Hg. Anytime I hear PGH and green in the same sentence, I shiver. They don't seem to do anything in that part of the world that's green. They have bill boards up that talk about clean coal. Carnegie and Mellon where 2 of the biggest polluters ever. The companies they built run that area and the bull factor is really high. You industry backed chemists really scare me.

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  • The last time I engaged in green chemistry I made a swamp thing that had to be painfully euthanized with a melted toothbrush and steel wool.

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