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There's Light at The End of The Tunnel (a new form of UV light... could change public health forever) (www.okdoomer.io)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Brkdncr@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 26 points 3 months ago (4 children)

As Boyd writes, UVC light at 254 nm "is an established 80-year-old technology that has been widely used in water disinfection, food decontamination, and the control of TB in hospitals and homeless shelters." It was starting to gain traction in the mid-20th century, but "fell out of fashion" as western societies adopted vaccines and antibiotics, opting to treat rather than prevent disease.

Or maybe, before the creation of UV LEDs in the last decade, it took huge mercury vapor lamps that took a fuckton of power and put out dangerous UV radiation as well as a bunch of heat?

Nah, obviously it's a conspiracy.

This article reads like it has an agenda.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

All media has an agenda.

TFA cites papers, published in Nature no less; clearly it isn’t hogwash. Doesn’t mean that it’s as amazing as the article claimed, but to dismiss it as “having an agenda” is quite something.

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

The article feels like it does have an agenda. The tech itself may be solid, but the way they phrase certain things makes it seem like this is some sort of “but big Pharma would kill it“ conspiracy article. Personally, I’ve wondered why we’re not doing more with UV pre/during/post-pandemic, although I’ve never heard of “far-UV”,

But an interesting read nonetheless

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