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Environment & Energy

NNadir

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1. This is an international problem. From my perspective a "clean up" is will involve...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 03:05 PM

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...simply moving the PFAS from one place to another.

A real solution would involve breaking lots of very strong chemical bonds requiring lots of energy, radiation with a wavelength of 222 nm or shorter.

Lots has been written about the mineralization of PFAS but from what I can tell, there are no industrial scale plants for doing so.

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