Hey, hey, hey. We got a twofer
with Dave. Oh, the science pro this morning
. We're talking about strawberries, and we're talking about
glass, so I'm gonna start with gonna start with
strawberries. Let's start with strawberries. Were also Yeah
, too short stories, but I wanted to pass
these along to you. How many times? If
you've gone somewhere, you've gotten strawberries, You come
home couple days later, they're all mushy. Okay
, well, here's the thing. It may not
be your fault. New research now again for strawberry
growers. For people who just love strawberries in general
, this is ah, horticultural scientist professor in Florida
named Jeff Brett. He did some research on this
, and he said, You know, from basically
farm to your house, sometimes it could take up
to 7 to 10 days, and they're not properly
being stored because they need to be listened to this
at 34 degrees. So just above freezing. So
he warns that breaking the so called cold chain could
actually ruin the batch. So here's the thing.
Grocery stores and we know grocery stores. I mean
, they can't keep everything refrigerated. I completely understand
that they often break this critical cold chain because they
want you to smell the strawberries, right? They
want that phase. You walk by and go.
Oh, my gosh. Fresh strawberries so they could
do that, right? It kind of sucks you
in to get the strawberries, but they're already on
a path for decay, just by being out kind
of at room temperature, or so Russell. So
to further the process, what will actually to keep
the process from decaying even further. What you need
to do is get those strawberries homos fast as possible
and get him in 34 degrees. So get that
little crisper drawer. You know, the one those
new fancy refrigerators and get those at 34 degrees,
and that will help to keep them longer. What
do you think? I'm learning something here. I'm
learning something. Yeah. You know, the problem
is is that, um you know, it's so
hard to keep them refrigerated from, you know,
far all the way to your house. It's just
it's hard to dio and after out for an hour
or two or mawr, then they just start that
process. So it depends on the bat you get
but to keep it longer. You want to keep
it there at 34 degrees. It doesn't work for
all. Fruit, though. Doesn't work for bananas
because bananas only work What about 58 degrees? So
keep those strawberries cold. Now. I've only got
about a minute left. This is a very short
article, and I wish it was a lot longer
, but I think they've got a lot more research
to Dio. And this is about finding trees inside
windows, right? So they have found that it
cost 25,000 metric tons of CO. Two each year
to try to produce glass. But now they've also
found that with cellulose fibers and something called lignin that
they confined inside trees. They can mash that down
to produce glass, the not the problem. But
what they also have to do is add sodium hydroxide
to that to make it clear, because it's a
generally kind of a brown substance, and you wouldn't
be able to see through it. But they're also
finding now that you're mixing that cellulose and that lignin
together, and they were able to matt it down
, put some sodium hydroxide in there, and it
becomes durable, even more durable and just aske liras
, glass. So does that mean we can save
someone energy costs by doing it this way? My
big question, Which I can't answer right now for
you and I've looked and looked and there was no
answer yet is what is this going to do to
the population of trees? Is that gonna be more
of a problem if if we try toe, save
one energy, are we gonna end up reducing another
one? So But if not, because truth can
. Trees can be a renewable resource if we use
them, right? Could this pave the way form
or environmentally environmentally friendly glass? Something fascinating to think
about that. Okay. I wish I had more
in this. It was just It was a two
page article, and I was like, I wanted
mawr. So I keep researching more. Good.
All right, thanks. See you.