SciShow: Why Our Sewers are Plagued by Fatbergs

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Content of the Lesson: Sure, throwing grease down the drain is not great for the pluming in your home, but it can actually cause problems on a much bigger scale in the form of FOGs - also known as fatbergs. And yes, those are as gross as they sound. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2013.05.002 https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jos/advpub/0/advpub_ess13182/_pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/40575453 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0043135413009238 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652617320863 doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2007.03.024 https://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP3225 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/004313549290107F https://doi.org/10.1080/01490450802258428 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2009.08.046 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibiod.2014.02.013 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2017.05.144 https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-10/documents/csossortc2004_full.pdf https://www.epa.gov/npdes/sanitary-sewer-overflows-ssos https://www.southeasternfogalliance.org/ https://patents.google.com/patent/US1164527A/en https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-41860764 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-42986433 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-41252635 Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/pipe-clogged-with-fats-oil-and-grease-gm482437666-70031927 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hydrogen-sulfide-3D-balls.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sulfuric-acid-Givan-et-al-1999-3D-balls.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fatberg_at_Museum_of_London.jpg https://archive.org/details/AAwgnH2 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CaSO4.tif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rasyslami.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Opened_grease_trap_(5547294810).jpg


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