Posted on 10/25/2019 5:05:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin
… [A] simple, inexpensive, portable device that could produce hydrogen peroxide continuously from just air, water, and electricity, providing a way to sterilize wounds, food-preparation surfaces, and even water supplies.
Even at low concentrations, hydrogen peroxide is an effective antibacterial agent, and after carrying out its sterilizing function it breaks down into plain water, in contrast to other agents such as chlorine that can leave unwanted byproducts from its production and use. Hydrogen peroxide is just water with an extra oxygen atom tacked on—it's H2O2, instead of H2O. That extra oxygen is relatively loosely bound, making it a highly reactive chemical eager to oxidize any other molecules around it. It's so reactive that in high concentrations it can be used as rocket fuel, and even concentrations of 35 percent require very special handling and shipping procedures. The kind used as a household disinfectant is typically only 3 percent hydrogen peroxide and 97 percent water.
Because high concentrations are hard to transport, and low concentrations, being mostly water, are uneconomical to ship, the material is often hard to get in places where it could be especially useful, such as remote communities with untreated water. (Bacteria in water supplies can be effectively controlled by adding hydrogen peroxide.) As a result, many research groups around the world have been pursuing approaches to developing some form of portable hydrogen peroxide production equipment.
Most of the hydrogen peroxide produced in the industrialized world is made in large chemical plants, where methane, or natural gas, is used to provide a source of hydrogen, which is then reacted with oxygen in a catalytic process under high heat. This process is energy-intensive and not easily scalable, requiring large equipment and a steady supply of methane, so it does not lend itself to smaller units or remote locations.
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Now, the entire world can be...bleach blonde...
“It’s kind of an amazing process,” he says, “because you take abundant things, water, air and electricity, that you can source locally”
That rules California out.
We live in an age of wonders, yet we complain about small and trivial problems. Cancer is nearly cured, food is abundant, women have rights and opportunities undreamed of 100 years ago and still we moan and groan.
Amazing that solutions to real problems like this continue to be found.
This is actually pretty significant.
Yup.
We can refuel our jetpacks a lot easier now.
Seriously it is very great they can do this.
“Cancer is nearly cured, food is abundant, women have rights and opportunities undreamed of 100 years ago and still we moan and groan.”
Two out of three ain’t bad, but unfortunately cancer isn’t nearly cured.
Then how I mortality up from 5% to 75% in many cases?
Sometimes I wonder if we humans are pre-wired to have a certain ratio of stress to comfort. When this ratio gets out of balance we tend to compensate. Maybe this is is why we see people with so little act surprisingly upbeat, while others with plenty act bitter and miserable.
Two out of three ain’t bad, but unfortunately cancer isn’t nearly cured.
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Far from being cured.
Cool!
I use a lot of H2O2, just trying to stay healthy and uninfected, and as much for household chemical processes.
Like if I need to put bleach down my drains... Mix a little peroxide with it, and it won’t retard the biodegradation process in the septic tank. Seems counterintuitive, two anti-bacterial agents should make it worse... But nope. Turns it into salt water.
Hydrogen peroxide is a precursor chemical for bomb making, thus the reason I can no longer get the wood bleach I used to use. Banned. Now bathtub bomb makers can make their own.
If had any hair I could dye it.
Yep, being able to make it on site and avoid transporting it is pretty cool. They just need to keep a good eye on who is handling it in concentrated form until it’s diluted.
I went and recapped on it and found something interesting I did not know. It really isn’t good for flesh wounds unless it is below a 5% solution, guess that is why it is all 3%.
Hey Detroit!
Don’t use hydrogen peroxide on deep cuts or abrasions. I put some on a little cut on my finger and it traveled under my skin and bleached my fingerprint white. Plus it didn’t feel good either.
3% hydrogen peroxide is good at eliminating odors as well. My father-in-law once used my bathroom and the toilet overflowed. That bathroom stank for weeks will I tried to mop up the smell with typical disinfectants. Finally I wondered if the oxidation effect of hydrogen peroxide would kill the smell and it worked like a charm.
You must have used something like hair ‘bleach’, (or be extremely sensitive).
20% or higher will do that to just about everyone. The 3% that most grocery stores shouldn’t do that. I gargle / swish through my teeth with 3%, daily (most people dilute it to ~ 1 to 1.5% for that purpose,) and for most cuts or puncture wounds, especially ones that have dirt & etc in them, I actually soak in 3% peroxide for a few minutes, to bubble all the crud out.
That can be a misleading statistic regarding a “cure” for most cancers. It depends on the type of cancer, stage of diagnosis, at what point (how long after diagnosis and treatment) is a “cure” determined to have been accomplished, etc.
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