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Innovation Overground: Phosphorus (233)
Innovation Overground
English - March 02, 2020 00:00 - 12 minutes - 17.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsScience innovation techtransfer research business science chicago Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The Overground gets kind of...gross. It's not every day that we learn the secret of turning lead to gold is...wait for it...urine. Also, phosphorus. We’re running out of phosphorus! University to the rescue! Wait. Did that say "urine?"
*Note: The featured technology does not nano-bind Phosphorus, but instead holds the water to prevent phosphorus leeching.
Featured Technologies: The world is really running out of phosphorus: https://cosmosmagazine.com/chemistry/the-world-is-running-out-of-phosphorus-and-that-s-a-really-bad-thing; https://patents.google.com/patent/CN106947157A/en?oq=CN106947157A; Phosophate recovery from water: http://www.ndsuresearchfoundation.org/green-technologies
Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)
Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed
Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/