Green Chemistry

Professor of Chemistry Terry Collins talks about using green chemistry to clean water.

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• Carnegie
• Mellon
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• Inspire
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• environment
• energy
• sustainability
• Terry
• Collins
• Green
• Chemistry
• TAML

[HostingReviews1]

worth watching. 

[muhammadzahmad]

thanks for sharing this video...its worth watching

[thegreeensky]

that would be a nice idea.. hope it would successful...

[agapitoflores001]

Chemistry is my asset and I can work at different skills.

[solargroupies]

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.

[bmikesci]

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?

[bmikesci]

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.

[bmikesci]

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.

[metalpizza]

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.

[solargroupies]

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