Comment on Spray On Liquid Glass

Dear Friends,
My friend Lee, a very brillent man, added this comment about spray on liquid glass that I felt was so well done I had to share it. Thanks Lee!

Tina,

Right now, I do NOT know of any nano technology that is not considered to be toxic to humans if ingested. The peer reviewed and published research is just not there. These particles are just so damn small there is a school of thought that they could migrate to areas of the body that really do not recognize them as foreign bodies, and the body will not erect any defenses to get rid of them. This is never good....

There is some significant discussion going around about the silver nano-technology that Samsung uses in its clothes washing machine as an example. It appears that there is a small, minute but measurable release of these silver nano particles into the waste water. The technology is used as a disinfectant and it kills germs. (I do not know if this technology is in America)

If silver nano-technology is widely adopted in washing machines and dishwashers, there are a few problems as I understand:
1. The germs that are not killed become battle hardened.
2. The germs that are not killed have a small, but I believe measurable increase in probability of mutating
3. The excess silver nano particles are flushed back into the waste stream and so far, they are way too small to be filtered out, so eventually, they will return to our drinking supplies.
4. These particles are so small that their effect on the human body if (and when) consumed, has not been widely studied, and is definitely not understood.

(By the way, this phobia of trying to clean and kill germs may be doing our kids much more harm than good. By killing 99.9%, the other 0.1% is more resistant to being killed, controlled etc and our kids, not being exposed to many germs, can become really sick when they come into contact with these battle-hardened germs. When we were kids, we did not have all this disinfectant stuff, so our immune system had a chance to develop into a strong system. My guess is that we are seeing increases in diseases today that were very rare when we were kids because while we have killed the 99% of the germs, we have left our kids exposed to the really battle hardened stuff, and their immature immune systems are just overwhelmed.)


Glass is made up mostly of the element silicon. In certain forms, it is considered HIGHLY toxic. For example, the people that handle the purest of silcon that goes into making computer chips either wear moon suits, or work in special rooms where the airborne concentration of silicon is kept so low it is barely measurable. Silicon can lead to a bad type of lung cancer I believe. I just watched a film on the manufacture of ram used in computers. The people in the room where the sand was being delivered wore masks and gloves and suits all designed it seemed to me to not let one grain of this sand into their body.

So, right now, it appears that nano particles attached to stuff we touch are safe for adults. Jury is out on kids, toddlers, and babies.

It might end up not being a toxic issue. Just a hell of lot of research needs to be done.

Lee

PS: Our world has never been and will never be germ free. We are trying too hard to make it germ free, thinking we are making it safer for ourselves, and our kids. I think we will determine, probably too late, that we were wrong. Maybe even deadly wrong. Lee