00:01:02The Centaur Robot Nightmare
00:13:36Microplastics Shift Into Biosolids
00:22:01The Mouth Body Health Connection
00:32:57California Sets Tire Efficiency Rules
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A robot centaur with glowing eyes and power-tool hands may look like something out of science fiction, but it points toward a serious question: what should the robots working alongside us actually look like? We explore increasingly unconventional robot designs and how automation—from welding systems and warehouse robots to exoskeleton-style assistance—is improving consistency, reducing workplace injuries, and reshaping manufacturing.
Then we follow a troubling environmental loop. Wastewater treatment can capture microplastics before they reach waterways, but some particles concentrate in sewage sludge. When we process that material into biosolids and apply it to land, are we simply moving the contamination somewhere else? We examine what that could mean for soil, water, agriculture, and the food system.
Next, we turn to a part of health that’s easy to underestimate: your mouth. Emerging research on the oral microbiome, gum disease, and chronic inflammation is strengthening the link between dental health and cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, and cognitive decline.
Finally, California is targeting something nearly every driver eventually buys: replacement tires. We examine new tire-efficiency standards, rolling resistance, potential fuel-economy benefits, and the bigger debate over whether regulation can lower energy consumption without increasing costs or compromising safety.
Robot workers. Plastic in our soil. Bacteria in our mouths. Tires on our cars. Four seemingly unrelated stories with one thing in common: technology keeps creating consequences far beyond where we first expect them.
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The truth about microplastics and biosolids, your quality of life could be in your mouth.
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File this one under technology meets nightmare.
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This is a design, and I'm going to preface this that the company did this on purpose.
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I don't know why.
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Don't understand why they would go this way, but okay.
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It is a robot centaur designed to save lives, but it looks like a nightmare.
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Basically, cross Freddy with any one of the horse movies you've ever watched, you probably would come up with this thing.
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Somewhere in Auburn, California, of course, a robotic startup called Satrus looked at two great religions of modern robotics: the bipedal humanoid, of course, and the robot dog.
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Yeah, okay.
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And decided that they were both not quite right.
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So, of course, you know, the thing of nightmares, they decided to create something they named three halves.
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A machine standing roughly two meters tall with a humanoid torso grafted onto a four-legged locomotion base with an angular horn skull and illuminated eyes and power tools where its hands should be.
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It is quite literally a centaur.
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It is quite literally uh the fertile ground for the next big nightmare movie.
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I mean, this is terminated to the next level, but they actually made this thing.
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It's also the stuff of nocturnal horror, so much so you might think it's a joke.
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The company did not respond to the reporter reaching out to find out, but strip away the demonic styling, and they did that deliberately, uh, according to the company.
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It connects the design to the brand.
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I'm not sure I want a brand of mine to be connected with something so hideous, but okay.
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What you do what you gotta do.
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The brand is actually named after the female version of the Greek satyrs, and three halves becomes the latest entry in a long parade of form factor gambling.
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What do I mean by that?
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Right now, as the industry is developing robots, they're trying to decide what a robot looks like based on the application that it's going to be used for.
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Obviously, if it's in a factory, there's certain needs and demands and capabilities that it needs to have.
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If it's going to be an assistant in a home, it needs to look a different way.
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Obviously, we'd want it to look more personal and less machine-like.
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Think um iRobot, maybe, would be a thing.
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But I digress.
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They're trying to figure it out.
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Let me give an example of all the ways that they're taking this approach.
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You got bipeds, quadrupeds, wheel torso, snake robots, drones with arms, replicants, and every lab and robot company on earth is betting on different form factors, each one with a wager on what the future robotics market will actually pay for.
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Let me stop right here.
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There is obviously a clear line, a clear delineation.
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There's a clear, clear line.
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Stuff in the factories is going to look dramatically different from those types of robots created to interact with human beings in terms of a retail situation, of a home health or home assistant situation.
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You don't want it to look like something that is strange or frightening or anything like that.
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So I would say that if you're dealing with the public one-on-one in a retail store or in a home, that these would probably be more human-like.
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If you're dealing in a factory, it it's all about what it can do.
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What is it doing?
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Is it on an assembly line?
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Is it in materials handling?
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Is it doing account?
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What is it uh checking for um compliance to certain parameters?
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There's a whole bunch of different things that would render it less likely to look like a human being in a factory setting.
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Totally understand that, particularly when it comes to the arms and hands, that they would have tools because they would want to be more useful, more practical, make more sense.
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And right now, in a number of automotive factories, this is happening in real time.
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In some of these factories or warehouses, they're being used to aid in warehouse situations where they're stacking, compiling, and putting things in order or retrieving stuff.
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In other situations, they're on the assembly line where they are lifting, placing, doing things that are dangerous or repetitive, which would lead to injury in an automobile plant.
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And to be honest with you, the automakers have been long, long, long users of robot technology, case in point.
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I would dare say for at least 40 years that I know of, probably longer, your welding line has been fully automated.
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It's been robotics for years, one of the first applications of robotics in a plant.
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And they did it because number one, welding is dangerous, welding is tedious, a lot of injuries because you're twisting, turning, lifting, placing, and it needs to be consistent.
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Because in an auto plant, when you build the body, you are building the structure of the car.
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It needs to be consistent, job after job, hour after hour, day after day.
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Humans get tired and maybe miss a weld.
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And then you've got a warranty claim deep, deep, deep because it causes other problems.
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In the auto industry, welding has been like that.
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In fact, I remember touring a Chrysler facility in 1981.
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And the welding line was fully automated in 81.
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I toured a Ford facility in the late 90s, where that particular plant, uh, there was a procedure where a laser was actually cutting out a piece of the floor to put in the transmission uh shift levering gear in F-150 pickup trucks.
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Totally automated.
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Totally automated.
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So the automobile industry has always been looking at that.
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And in fact, right now, where they're considering, and we've talked about it on this program before, where they've looked at what they call, you know, co-working robots.
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In other words, robots that work together with humans to help them, uh, to give them greater strength.
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In fact, exoskeletons, a type of computer that um employees put on, particularly if they're moving, lifting, and shoving stuff repetitively, because in anything, in most factories, particularly auto plants, where you've got a lot of repetitive injuries, carpal tunnel in the hands, back injuries because of twisting or turning, maybe not lifting something quite right, repetitive over hours, over days, over weeks, over years, and the cumulative impact of all of that.
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Robotics in the industries today, and have been for years, mitigate a lot of that and eliminate a lot of the problems inherent in having humans at certain points within your manufacturing uh system.
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It eliminates a lot of the problems.
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Uh, very rarely now do you find an auto body that has leaks that has structural problems.
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It's rare now.
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It was a lot less rare in the 70s when they automated all that and they turned it over to welding robots and adhesive applying robots, which do the same thing.
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And then on top of that, inspection robots that verify, and now they've enhanced those with AI.
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In the case of this Centaur robot, they're looking at a wide variety of applications.
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The question is, what will the public choose?
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What will industry buy?
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Are there winners?
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I think there'll be many different types, and that's where the industry is going.
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There's not one size fits all.
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Is there a place for this particular robot?
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We'll see.
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I would guess probably an assembly plant.
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I sure as heck wouldn't have this in my house.
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Oh no.
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I'm I've got a creative enough mind.
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I don't need anything that's going to help me have nightmares.
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And this thing certainly would.
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So I thought I'd share.
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Biosolids produced from a water resource recovery facility are considered key factor for microplastics in the urban water cycle.
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I'm going to share something with you that we do need to talk about.
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We've not talked about this subject before, and I want to equip you with some information.
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And not from a general publication.
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This comes out of Waterworld.
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This is a trade magazine for the water industry.
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And when I see the water industry, that means uh drinking water uh plants, wastewater plants, and all the professionals involved in either processing wastewater or delivering drinking water at quality, a major bunch of things.
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Let me equip you.
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According to Waterworld, the United States produces six to seven million dry ton metric tons of wastewater solids a year.
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Put a pin in that because we're going to explain that in a minute.
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It's generated by more than 14,000 publicly owned treatment works serving over 230 million people.
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And while treatment processes remove most microplastics from wastewater, they largely transfer these particles to biosolids.
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And here is where the problem begins.
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This is topic A.
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Let me deal with the good news.
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The chances of microplastics in your drinking water are very small.
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They get up well north to 90% in a variety of processes during water treatment that removes most of them.
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The challenge is in removing that, it gets into something called biosolids.
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What are biosolids?
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Let me explain.
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This is how they're defined.
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Sewage sludge treated to meet the requirements of U.S.
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EPA standards for the use or disposal of sewage sludge.
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That's 40 CFR Part 503 and can be beneficially used or disposed.
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Sounds good, right?
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And I'm sure if you're a certain age, you remember when the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, actually sold their dried sludge as fertilizer.
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And a lot of people bought it.
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Brilliant idea, right?
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One small problem with that.
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And this is why I want to share this with you, why it's actually a bad idea.
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Why?
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Because all the in the biosolids, all the microplastics, and to a degree, the nanoplastics, which are even smaller, that they remove from the water, ends up in the solids and ends up at very high concentrations of this very treated sludge that they sell.
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Let me give you some more numbers.
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Land application on agricultural lands and other lands accounts for 60% of the domestic management practice for biosolids, and approximately 25% of U.S.
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biosolids are disposed through landfilling.
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Incineration represents 14% of biosolid management nationally and remains important in densely populated or land-constrained regions.
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Sewerage sludge incinerators reduce biosolids volume substantially and destroy pathogens and organic matter, leaving ash that is typically land filled.
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The remaining 2% include use in disposal pathways such as deep well injection and auxiliary fuel use, among others.
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What does this mean?
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If an agricultural firm or farm or farmer chooses to use this treated sludge on their land, quite possibly they are also distributing microplastics and introducing it right into the ground.
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That gets crazy.
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When we say plastics, let me even explain that for you.
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According to the article, this is what they're explaining.
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Plastics are durable synthetic polymers composed of a wide range of chemical additives.
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Those chemical additives, you thought the plastic was bad, it's the chemical additives also.
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In the environment, larger plastic items degrade over time through physical, chemical, and biological processes fragmenting into smaller particles and releasing associated chemicals.
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That part I didn't realize.
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It's the associated chemicals.
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These particles, known as microplastics, are defined as plastic materials smaller than five millimeters and larger than one millimeter, while particles below one millimeter are classified as nanoplastics.
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Obviously, microplastics originate from both manufactured and degraded sources.
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Some are intentionally produced at small sizes, such as industrial resin pellets and microbeads used in products, while others result from the breakdown of larger plastics into their fibers, fragments, foams, and films.
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Because of their small size and high surface area, microplastics and nanoplastics can both leach chemical additives and absorb pollutants and pathogens, enhancing their ability to transport contaminants through the environment.
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It just gets worse.
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You thought just the plastic was a problem.
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It's everything else the plastic chooses to bring with it.
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But I continue.
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Many of the additives associated with plastics, such as uh biphenols and phylaids, have been linked to an endocrine disruption, other adverse health effects.
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Due to their growing environmental significance, microplastics were added to the US EPA's contaminant candidate list.
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Microplastics and nanoplastics are now widely detected across global ecosystems, including food, beverages, and drinking water.
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Increasing evidence shows that these particles can enter the human body through ingestion with recent studies identifying microplastics in human tissue such as the placenta, liver, kidneys, brain, and both adult and infant feces as well.
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Bear in mind, I am reading this straight from Water World magazine, an industry publication.
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They are talking to other people in the industry and educating them about microplastics.
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These are people who deal in the transportation, delivery, and purification of water.
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Urban water systems are a central conduit for the transport, transformation, accumulation, and redistribution of microplastics within the environment.
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There are a lot of different ways that these get into the system.
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I just wanted to share with you to make you more aware of just how serious it is and why we need to care about water quality and what we use in our crops.
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If the eyes are considered a window to the soul, then the mouth may reveal just as much about a person's health and the diseases that shape how we age.
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Scientists are studying how issues that start in the mouth may contribute to chronic inflammation elsewhere in the body.
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This is topic B.
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Forever.
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We go to our doctor, our primary caregiver, we go to our dentist.
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Never thought that the two would have something in common.
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But they do.
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And when I get done with this piece, you may realize, like, duh, why haven't we been doing this?
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Scientists are linking oral bacteria to heart disease and cognitive decline.
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And a push is underway to treat the mouth as a source of body-wide inflammation.
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They want to get and link dental health with overall body health.
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And when you think about it, well, yeah, but we've never been there.
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We've never been there.
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In particular, they're examining how bacteria from diseased gums and the immune response they trigger may contribute to conditions including heart disease, diabetes, cognitive decline, arthritis, respiratory disease, and chronic liver disease.
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Wow.
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From what they find in the mouth.
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The emerging science poses a challenge for healthcare, given the traditional divide between medicine and dentistry.
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Right.
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You never thought that the two would be together, but honestly, if you think about it, anything to do with your body, your mouth, your eyes, um hands and feet, wouldn't it make more sense if all that was together?
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But we got specialists for this and specialists for that, and they don't talk to each other, particularly when it comes to oral health.
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The emerging science poses a challenge for healthcare given the traditional divide between medicine and dentistry, fields that have been long divided by separate training, records, and insurance systems.
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Dentists have not been traditionally trained to think about whole body health in relation to the mouth, and doctors haven't been trained to see dental health as a first step to overall well-being.
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And this is according to Dr.
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Jessa Jessica Lederhausen, a dentist and author of Oral, a book exploring the role of lifestyle on oral health.
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Let me give you the good news.
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That's changing.
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Dental schools, which have taught how diseases like diabetes affect the mouth, which I didn't even realize, but when I think about it, that makes sense, are also placing greater emphasis on how oral disease can affect the rest of the body.
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Medical education leaders have called on medical schools to better integrate oral health into physician training.
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That makes sense.
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At the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, the initiative to integrate oral health and medicine is researching how oral health policy and health system design can better support, quote, whole person care, unquote, according to its director.
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We envision a future where a heart doctor asks patients if they're seeing their dentist regularly and whether they are aware of their periodontal disease could mean they have a much worse heart situation.
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With better coordination, including shared medical and dental records, experts say, primary care doctors may increasingly refer patients to diabetes or at high risk for heart disease to a dentist or periodontist for evaluation and treatment of gum disease.
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Who knew?
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Meanwhile, more dentists may identify signs of uncontrolled diabetes and coordinate care with the patient's physician.
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What they're saying is gum disease and diabetes are related.
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And why does this matter?
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Well, if you're a type 2 diabetic like my wife, um, it's concerning.
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And to be honest, being people of a certain age, and I'll explain that in a minute, you tend to get a little lax about your oral care.
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That will change after the research I did on this piece, because now I'm more aware.
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The growing understanding of mouth-body connection is also leading to new diagnostic tools, prevention strategies, and treatments.
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And it's intensifying calls to provide more widespread coverage for preventive dental procedures, especially get this, older adults who are at higher risk.
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Yeah, that would be me and the missus.
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According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly half, half of all adults aged 30 and older have periodonasis.
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I can't get this word.
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The more serious type of gum disease that involves bone loss around teeth.
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Wait a minute, stop.
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Half of all adults aged 30 and older have the more serious type of gum disease that involves bone loss around teeth.
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Did you know?
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I didn't till just now.
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But federal data also shows that prevalence increases with age, with close to 60% of those 65 and older have some level of disease, just as people become more vulnerable to conditions that can dramatically affect a healthy lifespan.
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In other words, as you get older, mouth health becomes even more important to your overall well-being.
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Again, I did not know this.
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In turn, conditions such as diabetes can make gum disease more severe or harder to treat.
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Let me ask you, dear listener, when's the last time you've been to the dentist?
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And I'm looking at y'all over 60, my regular listeners.
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Yeah, I'm talking to you.
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When's the last time you've been to a dentist?
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Did you know that your quality of life may very well depend on your mouth health?
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I didn't know that.
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And I'm going to follow up myself after this is over.
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A 2023 review in the journal Biogenerology concluded that oral health plays a significant role in reaching, quote, exceptional longevity, unquote, in part because of its connection to inflammation.
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And research on adults 65 and older has found that oral diseases, including the periodontal disease, tooth decay, and tooth loss, remain a substantial source of years lived with disability, suggesting that oral health can shape the quality, not just the length, of later life.
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Let me go back to this fact again, because I'm still trying to get over this.
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Adults 30 and over have the more serious type of gum disease that involves bone loss around teeth.
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But federal data also shows prevalence increases with age when close to 60%.
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That is, six out of every 10 adults 65 or older have some level of that disease.
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Just as we get more vulnerable health-wise.
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But I'm not done with you yet.
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At the heart of the current research is the oral microbiome, the community of hundreds of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes that live in the mouth.
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Most are part of a healthy ecosystem.
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But a smaller group can thrive below the gum line, inflame the gums, and drive diseases such as gingivitis and peridontis.
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Over time, severe gum disease can destroy the tissue and the bone that hold teeth in place.
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Let me break one thing down in a little bit of time we've got left.
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They talked about the challenge also is a lack of dental care insurance for those of us 65 or older.
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That needs to change.
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Because your dental health is a is a view into your overall health.
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And if you're having trouble with your teeth, chances are it doesn't stop there.
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Please see your dentist.
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It's important.
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Has California finally gone too far?
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Now wait a minute, before you just say yes, just because let me explain.
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I mean, you can make a case for that with a lot of things that go on in the Golden State, but in this case, I'm talking about tires.
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Not any specialty or rare type of tires, but good old replacement tires for your V for your personal vehicle.
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It may seem to some that California is overreached.
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Again, this is topic C.
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You may have heard something about this, and I am basing what I know based on an article in The Car Collective.
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They have a substack.
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I know the writers.
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Some of them are longtime automotive journalists, personal friends of mine.
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But I want to I want to get this and then maybe back up and we'll approach this.
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If you're not aware why California is often so special when it becomes to pollution and pollution control, and why they seem to be so, if you will allow me, anal about it.
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If you had lived in California in the 1960s, you would see the level of pollution, particularly in Los Angeles, which is kind of like a bowl.
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The smog was ridiculous, health quality outcomes were awful.
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When the federal government passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, particularly when it came to regulating automotive exhaust, they gave California an exemption.
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California could have stricter requirements than the rest of the country.
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And for many years, uh automakers had to build 49 plus one.
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In other words, they built uh controls, emission controls for 49 states and then more stringent controls just for California.
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And the reason why I'm giving you this kind of background is where we're getting to now.
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California has always been a bit more touchy when it comes to uh consumer rights, when it comes to uh air quality and things like that.
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Here's what we've got.
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On August 17th of this year, the California Energy Commission approved the replacement tire efficiency program, the nation's first efficiency standards for replacement tires sold for passenger vehicles and light duty trucks in California.
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Now, on the surface, that sounds good, right?
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I mean, to give you some standards for your money so that you kind of know when you need to buy tires for your vehicle, what to expect.
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Level of quality, level of knowing things.
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For example, the agency voted unanimously to mandate rules that require replacement tires to meet new rolling resistance metrics for those tires.
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The move is designed, according to officials, to save consumers money through improved fuel efficiency.
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They claim savings of a billion dollars statewide annually.
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They also say, and this is important, that the standards will also reduce carbon dioxide emissions by two million metric tons a year, equivalent to taking approximately 400,000 gasoline cars off of California roads.
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The new rules will be applied in two steps.
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Phase one runs from 2029 to 2033, with a more stringent phase two taking over after that.
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Now the article goes on and they get a little smug, and I'm going to contest that.
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They say, well, yes, you can no longer just run in and get the cheapest tires you can find.
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These new rules will add to the cost of tire replacement, but only a buck fifty during a tire during phase one and six fifty a tire during phase two, officials claim.
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A typical driver of a gasoline car with more efficient tires will save roughly$179 a gasoline over the life of a set of tires.
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These savings were calculated with gasoline prices at$4.60 a gallon.
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Elevated prices from the middle of this year, savings could be 25% higher than estimated.
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Now, here's everybody just freaking out, and I want to push back right here.
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Let me give you a quote and then my pushback.
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If a California driver buys a new car, drives it off the lot, and then gets a nail in their tire and they need to get a replacement, that tire mayor may not be compliant with these replacement tire regulations.
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And this is from the United States Tire Manufacturers Association.
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Two weeks, five weeks a month after you get a new car, you may not be able to go in and buy those same tires.
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Stop right there.
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I just bought a set of tires.
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For my 2018 Chevy Equinox, not a fancy car.
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There's a reason why I don't buy the cheapest rubber that's out there, and most people don't.
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Why?
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Because you get what you pay for.
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The tires where the rubber meets the road is your control surface.
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How they grip, how they stay, how they get you through when it's wet, when it's muddy, when it's icy, when it's snow on the ground.
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If you're buying the cheapest thing out there, and particularly if you're living in northern climbs where you get rain, mud, snow, ice, that's a death sentence.
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And for the record, the tires that I researched and bought cost me$900 for a set of four.
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$900.
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That's not the cheapest.
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Oh, I could have gotten just some rubber, but I would have had some rubber.
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And I would have had an unsafe vehicle.
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And I'm here to tell you, most Americans don't do that.
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And uh let's also talk about this right here.
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If you're blowing a tire four weeks out, chances are unless it's shredded, it can be repaired.
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So he's getting kind of an issue.
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My wife has picked up tail, you know, nails and things like that, able to get it repaired, put it on a car, fixed it for 30 bucks, let and rolled on.
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It didn't immediately mean I needed to replace the tire.
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So what this guy is talking about, to me, is a very, very small subset.
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But here's something very telling you should know.
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The head of their tire manufacturing association raised the concern.
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Goodyear raised the concern, but guess what?
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Guess who didn't?
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Michelin.
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Michelin said they offered support.
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They said, we support efficiency goals and believe the proposed thresholds in this rulemaking are technic technically feasible within the defined timeframes.
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In other words, what Michelin is telling the world, we have the ability to meet the standard.
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And the rest of these folks are just blowing smoke because they don't want to spend the money.
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We already have.
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That's what they're saying.
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Any automakers have been here before.
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Automakers and parts manufacturers have moaned any time the government has said, hey, we want standards.
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Here are the standards, here's the lead time.
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Oh, we can't possibly make it.
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Yeah, they said that about Catalytic converters.
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Honda developed an engine that met the standards without a Catalytic converter.
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They said the same thing about airbags.
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But by the early 90s, they had them.
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Traction control, stability control, you name it, they fussed about it.
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So I don't really put a lot of stock in that.
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And to be honest with you, I just ran a set of tires 75,000 miles, and I didn't I did not pick up anything.
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My wife, on the other hand, at least three times for her tires.
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Then we bought them at the same time.
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But each time we're able to get fixed.
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I don't think what California is doing is that excessive, people.
00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:55.119
I guess they will see as it goes into effect, but they gave you time.
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At least one tire maker will meet the standard.
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Imagine that.
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Oh well.
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So, you know, standards, yeah, makes sense.
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Meet the standard.
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Get competitive.
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That's the way it works in America.
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That's it for this edition of the Tech Mobility Show.
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I'm Kent Chester.
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Thanks for making us part of your day.
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Until next time, keep moving forward at the speed of technology.
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On the docket.
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The truth about microplastics and biosolids, your quality of life could be in your mouth.
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File this one under technology meets nightmare.
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This is a design, and I'm going to preface this that the company did this on purpose.
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I don't know why.
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Don't understand why they would go this way, but okay.
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It is a robot centaur designed to save lives, but it looks like a nightmare.
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Basically, cross Freddy with any one of the horse movies you've ever watched, you probably would come up with this thing.
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Somewhere in Auburn, California, of course, a robotic startup called Satrus looked at two great religions of modern robotics: the bipedal humanoid, of course, and the robot dog.
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Yeah, okay.
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And decided that they were both not quite right.
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So, of course, you know, the thing of nightmares, they decided to create something they named three halves.
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A machine standing roughly two meters tall with a humanoid torso grafted onto a four-legged locomotion base with an angular horn skull and illuminated eyes and power tools where its hands should be.
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It is quite literally a centaur.
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It is quite literally uh the fertile ground for the next big nightmare movie.
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I mean, this is terminated to the next level, but they actually made this thing.
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It's also the stuff of nocturnal horror, so much so you might think it's a joke.
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The company did not respond to the reporter reaching out to find out, but strip away the demonic styling, and they did that deliberately, uh, according to the company.
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It connects the design to the brand.
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I'm not sure I want a brand of mine to be connected with something so hideous, but okay.
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What you do what you gotta do.
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The brand is actually named after the female version of the Greek satyrs, and three halves becomes the latest entry in a long parade of form factor gambling.
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What do I mean by that?
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Right now, as the industry is developing robots, they're trying to decide what a robot looks like based on the application that it's going to be used for.
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Obviously, if it's in a factory, there's certain needs and demands and capabilities that it needs to have.
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If it's going to be an assistant in a home, it needs to look a different way.
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Obviously, we'd want it to look more personal and less machine-like.
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Think um iRobot, maybe, would be a thing.
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But I digress.
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They're trying to figure it out.
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Let me give an example of all the ways that they're taking this approach.
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You got bipeds, quadrupeds, wheel torso, snake robots, drones with arms, replicants, and every lab and robot company on earth is betting on different form factors, each one with a wager on what the future robotics market will actually pay for.
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Let me stop right here.
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There is obviously a clear line, a clear delineation.
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There's a clear, clear line.
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Stuff in the factories is going to look dramatically different from those types of robots created to interact with human beings in terms of a retail situation, of a home health or home assistant situation.
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You don't want it to look like something that is strange or frightening or anything like that.
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So I would say that if you're dealing with the public one-on-one in a retail store or in a home, that these would probably be more human-like.
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If you're dealing in a factory, it it's all about what it can do.
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What is it doing?
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Is it on an assembly line?
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Is it in materials handling?
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Is it doing account?
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What is it uh checking for um compliance to certain parameters?
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There's a whole bunch of different things that would render it less likely to look like a human being in a factory setting.
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Totally understand that, particularly when it comes to the arms and hands, that they would have tools because they would want to be more useful, more practical, make more sense.
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And right now, in a number of automotive factories, this is happening in real time.
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In some of these factories or warehouses, they're being used to aid in warehouse situations where they're stacking, compiling, and putting things in order or retrieving stuff.
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In other situations, they're on the assembly line where they are lifting, placing, doing things that are dangerous or repetitive, which would lead to injury in an automobile plant.
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And to be honest with you, the automakers have been long, long, long users of robot technology, case in point.
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I would dare say for at least 40 years that I know of, probably longer, your welding line has been fully automated.
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It's been robotics for years, one of the first applications of robotics in a plant.
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And they did it because number one, welding is dangerous, welding is tedious, a lot of injuries because you're twisting, turning, lifting, placing, and it needs to be consistent.
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Because in an auto plant, when you build the body, you are building the structure of the car.
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It needs to be consistent, job after job, hour after hour, day after day.
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Humans get tired and maybe miss a weld.
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And then you've got a warranty claim deep, deep, deep because it causes other problems.
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In the auto industry, welding has been like that.
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In fact, I remember touring a Chrysler facility in 1981.
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And the welding line was fully automated in 81.
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I toured a Ford facility in the late 90s, where that particular plant, uh, there was a procedure where a laser was actually cutting out a piece of the floor to put in the transmission uh shift levering gear in F-150 pickup trucks.
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Totally automated.
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Totally automated.
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So the automobile industry has always been looking at that.
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And in fact, right now, where they're considering, and we've talked about it on this program before, where they've looked at what they call, you know, co-working robots.
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In other words, robots that work together with humans to help them, uh, to give them greater strength.
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In fact, exoskeletons, a type of computer that um employees put on, particularly if they're moving, lifting, and shoving stuff repetitively, because in anything, in most factories, particularly auto plants, where you've got a lot of repetitive injuries, carpal tunnel in the hands, back injuries because of twisting or turning, maybe not lifting something quite right, repetitive over hours, over days, over weeks, over years, and the cumulative impact of all of that.
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Robotics in the industries today, and have been for years, mitigate a lot of that and eliminate a lot of the problems inherent in having humans at certain points within your manufacturing uh system.
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It eliminates a lot of the problems.
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Uh, very rarely now do you find an auto body that has leaks that has structural problems.
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It's rare now.
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It was a lot less rare in the 70s when they automated all that and they turned it over to welding robots and adhesive applying robots, which do the same thing.
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And then on top of that, inspection robots that verify, and now they've enhanced those with AI.
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In the case of this Centaur robot, they're looking at a wide variety of applications.
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The question is, what will the public choose?
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What will industry buy?
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Are there winners?
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I think there'll be many different types, and that's where the industry is going.
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There's not one size fits all.
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Is there a place for this particular robot?
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We'll see.
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I would guess probably an assembly plant.
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I sure as heck wouldn't have this in my house.
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Oh no.
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I'm I've got a creative enough mind.
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I don't need anything that's going to help me have nightmares.
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And this thing certainly would.
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So I thought I'd share.
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Biosolids produced from a water resource recovery facility are considered key factor for microplastics in the urban water cycle.
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You are listening to the Tech Mobility Show.
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A proven step-by-step method to build a real business in only two focused hours a week.
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Introducing the$16,000 BMW.
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Visiting the$16,000 Lexus.
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Behold, the$16,000 are safe.
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To everyone who thought it was impossible to build an affordably priced luxury car, we have just one thing to say.
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Take a second.
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Nissan Ultima.
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Now own an Ultima for zero doubt, zero APR financing, and no payments up till April.
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The year was 1996.
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The car, Nissan Ultima.
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The Ultima had come out three years before.
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And when it hit the industry, there was nothing like it on the road in North America.
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It was fast, it was stylish, it was impressive.
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And I understand that a lot of people didn't realize that once upon a time, Nissan was actually in the good graces.
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And the Ultima turned the world inside out, upside down.
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It was that good.
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The first generation, 1993 to 1997, was an amazing car.
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Then they redesigned it in 1998 and made it an awful car.
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It would take them four years to get back on track.
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But the Nissan Ultima, I would argue, led the turnaround in the 90s of the Nissan brand and made people take a second look.
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Again, it was that good.
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I'm going to share something with you that we do need to talk about.
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We've not talked about this subject before, and I want to equip you with some information.
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And not from a general publication.
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This comes out of Waterworld.
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This is a trade magazine for the water industry.
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And when I see the water industry, that means uh drinking water uh plants, wastewater plants, and all the professionals involved in either processing wastewater or delivering drinking water at quality, a major bunch of things.
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Let me equip you.
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According to Waterworld, the United States produces six to seven million dry ton metric tons of wastewater solids a year.
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Put a pin in that because we're going to explain that in a minute.
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It's generated by more than 14,000 publicly owned treatment works serving over 230 million people.
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And while treatment processes remove most microplastics from wastewater, they largely transfer these particles to biosolids.
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And here is where the problem begins.
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This is topic A.
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Let me deal with the good news.
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The chances of microplastics in your drinking water are very small.
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They get up well north to 90% in a variety of processes during water treatment that removes most of them.
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The challenge is in removing that, it gets into something called biosolids.
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What are biosolids?
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Let me explain.
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This is how they're defined.
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Sewage sludge treated to meet the requirements of U.S.
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EPA standards for the use or disposal of sewage sludge.
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That's 40 CFR Part 503 and can be beneficially used or disposed.
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Sounds good, right?
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And I'm sure if you're a certain age, you remember when the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, actually sold their dried sludge as fertilizer.
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And a lot of people bought it.
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Brilliant idea, right?
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One small problem with that.
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And this is why I want to share this with you, why it's actually a bad idea.
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Why?
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Because all the in the biosolids, all the microplastics, and to a degree, the nanoplastics, which are even smaller, that they remove from the water, ends up in the solids and ends up at very high concentrations of this very treated sludge that they sell.
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Let me give you some more numbers.
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Land application on agricultural lands and other lands accounts for 60% of the domestic management practice for biosolids, and approximately 25% of U.S.
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biosolids are disposed through landfilling.
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Incineration represents 14% of biosolid management nationally and remains important in densely populated or land-constrained regions.
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Sewerage sludge incinerators reduce biosolids volume substantially and destroy pathogens and organic matter, leaving ash that is typically land filled.
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The remaining 2% include use in disposal pathways such as deep well injection and auxiliary fuel use, among others.
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What does this mean?
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If an agricultural firm or farm or farmer chooses to use this treated sludge on their land, quite possibly they are also distributing microplastics and introducing it right into the ground.
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That gets crazy.
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When we say plastics, let me even explain that for you.
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According to the article, this is what they're explaining.
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Plastics are durable synthetic polymers composed of a wide range of chemical additives.
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Those chemical additives, you thought the plastic was bad, it's the chemical additives also.
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In the environment, larger plastic items degrade over time through physical, chemical, and biological processes fragmenting into smaller particles and releasing associated chemicals.
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That part I didn't realize.
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It's the associated chemicals.
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These particles, known as microplastics, are defined as plastic materials smaller than five millimeters and larger than one millimeter, while particles below one millimeter are classified as nanoplastics.
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Obviously, microplastics originate from both manufactured and degraded sources.
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Some are intentionally produced at small sizes, such as industrial resin pellets and microbeads used in products, while others result from the breakdown of larger plastics into their fibers, fragments, foams, and films.
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Because of their small size and high surface area, microplastics and nanoplastics can both leach chemical additives and absorb pollutants and pathogens, enhancing their ability to transport contaminants through the environment.
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It just gets worse.
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You thought just the plastic was a problem.
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It's everything else the plastic chooses to bring with it.
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But I continue.
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Many of the additives associated with plastics, such as uh biphenols and phylaids, have been linked to an endocrine disruption, other adverse health effects.
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Due to their growing environmental significance, microplastics were added to the US EPA's contaminant candidate list.
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Microplastics and nanoplastics are now widely detected across global ecosystems, including food, beverages, and drinking water.
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Increasing evidence shows that these particles can enter the human body through ingestion with recent studies identifying microplastics in human tissue such as the placenta, liver, kidneys, brain, and both adult and infant feces as well.
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Bear in mind, I am reading this straight from Water World magazine, an industry publication.
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They are talking to other people in the industry and educating them about microplastics.
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These are people who deal in the transportation, delivery, and purification of water.
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Urban water systems are a central conduit for the transport, transformation, accumulation, and redistribution of microplastics within the environment.
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There are a lot of different ways that these get into the system.
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I just wanted to share with you to make you more aware of just how serious it is and why we need to care about water quality and what we use in our crops.
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If the eyes are considered a window to the soul, then the mouth may reveal just as much about a person's health and the diseases that shape how we age.
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Scientists are studying how issues that start in the mouth may contribute to chronic inflammation elsewhere in the body.
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This is topic B.
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Forever.
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We go to our doctor, our primary caregiver, we go to our dentist.
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Never thought that the two would have something in common.
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But they do.
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And when I get done with this piece, you may realize, like, duh, why haven't we been doing this?
00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:50.720
Scientists are linking oral bacteria to heart disease and cognitive decline.
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And a push is underway to treat the mouth as a source of body-wide inflammation.
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They want to get and link dental health with overall body health.
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And when you think about it, well, yeah, but we've never been there.
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We've never been there.
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In particular, they're examining how bacteria from diseased gums and the immune response they trigger may contribute to conditions including heart disease, diabetes, cognitive decline, arthritis, respiratory disease, and chronic liver disease.
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Wow.
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From what they find in the mouth.
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The emerging science poses a challenge for healthcare, given the traditional divide between medicine and dentistry.
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Right.
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You never thought that the two would be together, but honestly, if you think about it, anything to do with your body, your mouth, your eyes, um hands and feet, wouldn't it make more sense if all that was together?
00:23:55.599 --> 00:24:02.960
But we got specialists for this and specialists for that, and they don't talk to each other, particularly when it comes to oral health.
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The emerging science poses a challenge for healthcare given the traditional divide between medicine and dentistry, fields that have been long divided by separate training, records, and insurance systems.
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Dentists have not been traditionally trained to think about whole body health in relation to the mouth, and doctors haven't been trained to see dental health as a first step to overall well-being.
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And this is according to Dr.
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Jessa Jessica Lederhausen, a dentist and author of Oral, a book exploring the role of lifestyle on oral health.
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Let me give you the good news.
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That's changing.
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Dental schools, which have taught how diseases like diabetes affect the mouth, which I didn't even realize, but when I think about it, that makes sense, are also placing greater emphasis on how oral disease can affect the rest of the body.
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Medical education leaders have called on medical schools to better integrate oral health into physician training.
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That makes sense.
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At the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, the initiative to integrate oral health and medicine is researching how oral health policy and health system design can better support, quote, whole person care, unquote, according to its director.
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We envision a future where a heart doctor asks patients if they're seeing their dentist regularly and whether they are aware of their periodontal disease could mean they have a much worse heart situation.
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With better coordination, including shared medical and dental records, experts say, primary care doctors may increasingly refer patients to diabetes or at high risk for heart disease to a dentist or periodontist for evaluation and treatment of gum disease.
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Who knew?
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Meanwhile, more dentists may identify signs of uncontrolled diabetes and coordinate care with the patient's physician.
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What they're saying is gum disease and diabetes are related.
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And why does this matter?
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Well, if you're a type 2 diabetic like my wife, um, it's concerning.
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And to be honest, being people of a certain age, and I'll explain that in a minute, you tend to get a little lax about your oral care.
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That will change after the research I did on this piece, because now I'm more aware.
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The growing understanding of mouth-body connection is also leading to new diagnostic tools, prevention strategies, and treatments.
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And it's intensifying calls to provide more widespread coverage for preventive dental procedures, especially get this, older adults who are at higher risk.
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Yeah, that would be me and the missus.
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According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly half, half of all adults aged 30 and older have periodonasis.
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I can't get this word.
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The more serious type of gum disease that involves bone loss around teeth.
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Wait a minute, stop.
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Half of all adults aged 30 and older have the more serious type of gum disease that involves bone loss around teeth.
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Did you know?
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I didn't till just now.
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But federal data also shows that prevalence increases with age, with close to 60% of those 65 and older have some level of disease, just as people become more vulnerable to conditions that can dramatically affect a healthy lifespan.
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In other words, as you get older, mouth health becomes even more important to your overall well-being.
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Again, I did not know this.
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In turn, conditions such as diabetes can make gum disease more severe or harder to treat.
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Let me ask you, dear listener, when's the last time you've been to the dentist?
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And I'm looking at y'all over 60, my regular listeners.
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Yeah, I'm talking to you.
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When's the last time you've been to a dentist?
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Did you know that your quality of life may very well depend on your mouth health?
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I didn't know that.
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And I'm going to follow up myself after this is over.
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A 2023 review in the journal Biogenerology concluded that oral health plays a significant role in reaching, quote, exceptional longevity, unquote, in part because of its connection to inflammation.
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And research on adults 65 and older has found that oral diseases, including the periodontal disease, tooth decay, and tooth loss, remain a substantial source of years lived with disability, suggesting that oral health can shape the quality, not just the length, of later life.
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Let me go back to this fact again, because I'm still trying to get over this.
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Adults 30 and over have the more serious type of gum disease that involves bone loss around teeth.
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But federal data also shows prevalence increases with age when close to 60%.
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That is, six out of every 10 adults 65 or older have some level of that disease.
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Just as we get more vulnerable health-wise.
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But I'm not done with you yet.
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At the heart of the current research is the oral microbiome, the community of hundreds of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes that live in the mouth.
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Most are part of a healthy ecosystem.
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But a smaller group can thrive below the gum line, inflame the gums, and drive diseases such as gingivitis and peridontis.
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Over time, severe gum disease can destroy the tissue and the bone that hold teeth in place.
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Let me break one thing down in a little bit of time we've got left.
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They talked about the challenge also is a lack of dental care insurance for those of us 65 or older.
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That needs to change.
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Because your dental health is a is a view into your overall health.
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And if you're having trouble with your teeth, chances are it doesn't stop there.
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Please see your dentist.
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It's important.
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And it doesn't matter how old you are.
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Has California finally gone too far?
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Now wait a minute, before you just say yes, just because let me explain.
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I mean, you can make a case for that with a lot of things that go on in the Golden State, but in this case, I'm talking about tires.
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Not any specialty or rare type of tires, but good old replacement tires for your V for your personal vehicle.
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It may seem to some that California is overreached.
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Again, this is topic C.
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You may have heard something about this, and I am basing what I know based on an article in The Car Collective.
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They have a substack.
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I know the writers.
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Some of them are longtime automotive journalists, personal friends of mine.
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But I want to I want to get this and then maybe back up and we'll approach this.
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If you're not aware why California is often so special when it becomes to pollution and pollution control, and why they seem to be so, if you will allow me, anal about it.
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If you had lived in California in the 1960s, you would see the level of pollution, particularly in Los Angeles, which is kind of like a bowl.
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The smog was ridiculous, health quality outcomes were awful.
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When the federal government passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, particularly when it came to regulating automotive exhaust, they gave California an exemption.
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California could have stricter requirements than the rest of the country.
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And for many years, uh automakers had to build 49 plus one.
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In other words, they built uh controls, emission controls for 49 states and then more stringent controls just for California.
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And the reason why I'm giving you this kind of background is where we're getting to now.
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California has always been a bit more touchy when it comes to uh consumer rights, when it comes to uh air quality and things like that.
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Here's what we've got.
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On August 17th of this year, the California Energy Commission approved the replacement tire efficiency program, the nation's first efficiency standards for replacement tires sold for passenger vehicles and light duty trucks in California.
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Now, on the surface, that sounds good, right?
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I mean, to give you some standards for your money so that you kind of know when you need to buy tires for your vehicle, what to expect.
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Level of quality, level of knowing things.
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For example, the agency voted unanimously to mandate rules that require replacement tires to meet new rolling resistance metrics for those tires.
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The move is designed, according to officials, to save consumers money through improved fuel efficiency.
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They claim savings of a billion dollars statewide annually.
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They also say, and this is important, that the standards will also reduce carbon dioxide emissions by two million metric tons a year, equivalent to taking approximately 400,000 gasoline cars off of California roads.
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The new rules will be applied in two steps.
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Phase one runs from 2029 to 2033, with a more stringent phase two taking over after that.
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Now the article goes on and they get a little smug, and I'm going to contest that.
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They say, well, yes, you can no longer just run in and get the cheapest tires you can find.
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These new rules will add to the cost of tire replacement, but only a buck fifty during a tire during phase one and six fifty a tire during phase two, officials claim.
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A typical driver of a gasoline car with more efficient tires will save roughly$179 a gasoline over the life of a set of tires.
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These savings were calculated with gasoline prices at$4.60 a gallon.
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Elevated prices from the middle of this year, savings could be 25% higher than estimated.
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Now, here's everybody just freaking out, and I want to push back right here.
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Let me give you a quote and then my pushback.
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If a California driver buys a new car, drives it off the lot, and then gets a nail in their tire and they need to get a replacement, that tire mayor may not be compliant with these replacement tire regulations.
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And this is from the United States Tire Manufacturers Association.
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Two weeks, five weeks a month after you get a new car, you may not be able to go in and buy those same tires.
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Stop right there.
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:54.800
I just bought a set of tires.
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For my 2018 Chevy Equinox, not a fancy car.
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There's a reason why I don't buy the cheapest rubber that's out there, and most people don't.
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Why?
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Because you get what you pay for.
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The tires where the rubber meets the road is your control surface.
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How they grip, how they stay, how they get you through when it's wet, when it's muddy, when it's icy, when it's snow on the ground.
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If you're buying the cheapest thing out there, and particularly if you're living in northern climbs where you get rain, mud, snow, ice, that's a death sentence.
00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:38.480
And for the record, the tires that I researched and bought cost me$900 for a set of four.
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$900.
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That's not the cheapest.
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Oh, I could have gotten just some rubber, but I would have had some rubber.
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And I would have had an unsafe vehicle.
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And I'm here to tell you, most Americans don't do that.
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And uh let's also talk about this right here.
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If you're blowing a tire four weeks out, chances are unless it's shredded, it can be repaired.
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So he's getting kind of an issue.
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My wife has picked up tail, you know, nails and things like that, able to get it repaired, put it on a car, fixed it for 30 bucks, let and rolled on.
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It didn't immediately mean I needed to replace the tire.
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So what this guy is talking about, to me, is a very, very small subset.
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But here's something very telling you should know.
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The head of their tire manufacturing association raised the concern.
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Goodyear raised the concern, but guess what?
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Guess who didn't?
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Michelin.
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Michelin said they offered support.
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They said, we support efficiency goals and believe the proposed thresholds in this rulemaking are technic technically feasible within the defined timeframes.
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In other words, what Michelin is telling the world, we have the ability to meet the standard.
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And the rest of these folks are just blowing smoke because they don't want to spend the money.
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We already have.
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That's what they're saying.
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Any automakers have been here before.
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Automakers and parts manufacturers have moaned any time the government has said, hey, we want standards.
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Here are the standards, here's the lead time.
00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:14.079
Oh, we can't possibly make it.
00:40:14.239 --> 00:40:16.320
Yeah, they said that about Catalytic converters.
00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:20.079
Honda developed an engine that met the standards without a Catalytic converter.
00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:22.079
They said the same thing about airbags.
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But by the early 90s, they had them.
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Traction control, stability control, you name it, they fussed about it.
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So I don't really put a lot of stock in that.
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And to be honest with you, I just ran a set of tires 75,000 miles, and I didn't I did not pick up anything.
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My wife, on the other hand, at least three times for her tires.
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Then we bought them at the same time.
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But each time we're able to get fixed.
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I don't think what California is doing is that excessive, people.
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I guess they will see as it goes into effect, but they gave you time.
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At least one tire maker will meet the standard.
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Imagine that.
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Oh well.
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So, you know, standards, yeah, makes sense.
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Meet the standard.
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Get competitive.
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