Common, cheap ingredients can break down some ‘forever chemicals’
#PFAS don’t typically degrade but lye and dimethyl sulfoxide help break some of their atomic bonds
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pfas-forever-chemicals-degrade-lye-chemistry
@londubh
So cool, now we just have to dump a bunch of lye and dimethyl sulfoxide in our rivers and heat them up at 120° C and our land water pollution problem will be solved!
I mean, surely cool research in the right direction; but this is nowhere near a solution and I wouldn't sell it so sensationalistically.
To use this process you would first have to isolate the PFAS in water to then destroy them; thus you would have to get the PFAS out of the rivers in the first place, which is the problem that we should solve.
This article provides a way to destroy PFAS that are already isolated; I guess this could be used in production processes that generate PFAS waste, that would be great!
@londubh
This method doesn't destroy PFAS in water, it destroys isolated PFAS.
Thus you would first have to remove all the PFAS from the contaminated well with another methodology.
This method is useless on its own for water decontamination.
@rastinza it would work for wells that have contaminated groundwater. That’s a specific application I’m thinking of. There isn’t going to be a one size fits all solution for PFAS.