Our waterways are becoming more and more polluted due to PFAS, plastics, medicines, drugs, and new chemicals made by companies that just hand over the responsibility of cleaning to plants paid for by public moneys. Detecting the different chemicals and filtering them out if getting harder and harder. Could the simple solution of heating up past a point where even PFAS/forever chemicals decomposes (400C for PFAS, 500C to be more sure about other stuff) be alright?

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    1 month ago

    This, I like. The water would be radioactive though, wouldn’t it? I wonder if “exchanging” the unknown toxins for radioactivity in the dispelled water would be better or worse. But, it could maybe help decompose some of the toxic chemicals during in the process.

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      1 month ago

      No. Radioactivity isn’t like a disease. Specific particles are radioactive. If you remove it prevent contamination form the first place, there is no reason the water would become radioactive. Heat is just heat.

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        1 month ago

        That made no sense at all. Do you think toxic water is 100 toxins or that when somebody is sick they become one big walking disease?

        And “water can’t become irradiated” is a great take. So radioactive radiation has no effect on water whatsoever? “High energy particles don’t exist and they can’t hurt you🧠”