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As an aside, I hate the expression that “Sunlight is the best disinfectant” because it’s just not true.
by BuyMyBitcoins 6y ago
As an aside, I hate the expression that “Sunlight is the best disinfectant” because it’s just not true.
- wizzwizz4 6y agoThrow some biological matter into the sun, and it'll be sterile before it gets there. So technically…
- wpietri 6y agoDepends on the heuristic for "best". It's widely available, reasonably effective, and 100% free, which seems pretty good to me.
- BuyMyBitcoins 6y agoI’m thinking about it differently, considering how much life lives in direct sunlight and depends on it for survival.
- catlifeonmars 6y agoThere’s a reason we don’t use sunlight to sterilize surgical instruments. Wait... Unless the sterilizer is solar powered, or used coal power, since coal is just compressed plant matter, which basically exists because of sunlight...
- GauntletWizard 6y agoYou can say the same of Wind and Hydro, and even Oil and Natural Gas are just compressed plant matter to a larger degree. Only Nuclear is truly sun-neutral energy.
- Khaine 6y agoWe basically do use sunlight. Medical instruments are sterilised with ultraviolet radiation, which is a component of sunlight.
- wpietri 6y agoExactly. UV sterilizers are sunlight simulators. Per Wikipedia, without our atmosphere blocking a lot of the sun's UV, there'd be little or no life on land.