Bioremediation: Hope / Hype for Environmental Cleanup

Terry Hazen discusses when it's best to resort to engineered bioremediation of contaminated sites, and when it's best to rely on natural attenuation. Recent advances have greatly broadened the potential applications for bioremediation. At the same time, scientists' knowledge of biogeochemical processes has advanced and they can better gauge how quickly and completely contaminants can be degraded without human intervention. Series: "Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Summer Lecture Series" [10/2007] [Science] [Show ID: 13004]

[@frqsterling9630]

any TAMS kids here?

[@maneeshkaku7221]

neogi gang what upppp

[@tawnybrooks1644]

yeah sadly

[@scottscontracting]

update to 2016: Phytoremediation has been studied extensively since this video was aired and has been deemed appropriate in certain circumstances as more plants have been discovered that can "trap" the heavy metals for proper disposal techniques or that cycle the heavy metals into new non hazardous elements. #Phytoextraction and #Phyto-stabilization

[@jasjnr]

Great lecture! Any chance of getting a high res copy of the graph at 24:47? Thanks

[@elsiel27]

whoooooo Terry Hazen is awesome! all ridiculous enthusiasm aside, he is pretty cool, and he was a good boss.

[@sultankaif5051]

nice one. but their wasn,t mention about microbes which we are using on petroleum spoils sides.

[@OfftoShambala]

i've never thought that "superfund" was an appropriate term

[@hartreef]

@lovedthepurplejacket Then go read Ron Atlas. He says much the same thing.

[@cesarvivas]

i never got through that boring guy at the beginning. let me know how it went..

[@jamessang5027]

GOOD! Biostimlation! Or stop polluting the earth !