On History CH. - Show on Mold and Fungus

[Guest guest]

Modern Marvels: Mold & Fungus

From magic mushrooms to athlete's foot to penicillin, fungi are everywhere.

Learn about fungal organisms that live within our bodies, grow beneath our feet,

float in the air and help create some of the foods and beverages we consume.

Follow professionals as they battle mold inside the walls of one moldy home.

Visit the Mushroom Farms, America's largest producer of specialty

mushrooms and finally see how scientists are looking for way to use fungi to

fuel cars and clean up hazardous waste.

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I don't have a link for this, happened to catch it late. Maybe someone can find

the link or maybe it may be on youtube but it was interesting. They did say that

mold can cause illness but that everyone reacts different. They also stated NOT

to use bleach when cleaning mold/mildew.

[Guest guest]

I saw it. It was a very interesting, hour long show.

I thought that they handled remediation issues well.

One thing that was very interesting for me was that they showed people

doing dry ice blasting remediation - which is incredibly fast,

cleans wood completely of mold, removing the blasted off material

immediately - and clearly, works well.

(the blasted wood looked brand new afterward!)

Badly done, inadequate, or uncontained remediations often make an existing

problem worse. Dry ice blasting and vacumn addresses a number of

problems - the HEPA vacumn with exhaust far away, outside, ideally is

right there- resulting in immediate removal of the debris..

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:22 AM, dana dana <gsgrl2000@...> wrote:

> Modern Marvels: Mold & Fungus

> From magic mushrooms to athlete's foot to penicillin, fungi are everywhere.

> Learn about fungal organisms that live within our bodies, grow beneath our

> feet, float in the air and help create some of the foods and beverages we

> consume. Follow professionals as they battle mold inside the walls of one

> moldy home. Visit the Mushroom Farms, America's largest producer of

> specialty mushrooms and finally see how scientists are looking for way to

> use fungi to fuel cars and clean up hazardous waste.

>

[Guest guest]

I missed all three times they showed it because I WAS GOING T6O record it. My

loss as always...