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Whoever bought this got way more than they bargained for yes they did its everywhere in clubs street corners in cars they say its safe and can help break the cigarette happen if i had to say what is more dangerous honestly it very well but whats really inside those pieces you never know what youre getting dr crystal dilworth is a neuroscientist who specializes in nicotine studies shell bring us the latest research what happens to your lungs when those metal particles go and see them read to davison is an environmental biologist and theyre going to be around the corner they went through there really quickly we got them shes off the coast of california where drones are taking some incredible images of migrating whales as this Technology Becomes available to more people and were going to see more research is using that im filled tor is an entomologist thats our team no its do some scientists. Hey guys welcome to techno on phil tours joined by Maria Davison and dr crystal still worth no bigger and potentially more dangerous thats the best way to describe whats happening with the smoking alternatives known as the cigarettes or vapor thats an industry that seems to really be exploding i mean youre seeing it everywhere and a part of me wonders if this might be because of some misinformation about a thing thats thats my sense in our doctor crystal dorthy of your ph d. In the study so weve asked you to keep a tab on this theres a lot of Academic Research as means. On the safety of the use of these devices but it cant really keep up with a growing industry. Enjoy the taste of the. Facts of what smoking does call them vapors or foggers or competitive cloud chasers all are welcome at crystal vapor one of thousands of the shops across the country since techno 1st reported on the wii ping phenomenon in 2013 the industry has taken off like wildfire revenue is estimated to reach 3500000000 dollars this year doubling since 2013 according to a recent poll 10 percent of all American Adults are of a thing thats an estimated 20000000 people when it comes to kids well conventional tobacco smoking among them is dropping to record lows east cigarettes are a growing concern at the centers for Disease Control between 20132014 alone we saw a tripling in use among Us High School students to the point where it was about 13. 5 percent of u. S. High School Students had used these products within the past 30 days from the early generation of cigarette lookalikes techno 1st reported on personal vaporizing devices known as models have gone high tech beings come a long way baby weve seen the shift move from pens and tanks at least culturally to what we called devices went from mechanical models to basically box models whats going on right now it may sound confusing but the basic mechanics are Pretty Simple theres a Battery Powered advisor that heats up a liquid mixture known as juice entered into vapor which the user inhales. When we 1st met researcher im an equal you should wrapped up a study that found harmful metal particulate in the vapor from earlier models in east cigarettes following the evolution of the industry shes updating her study so the original study we had looked at a cart a miser style and a cigarette and we had detected high amounts of 10 present in the. Parts do you still finding heavy metal particulate in the vapor we are still finding yes because its going into peoples lungs what happens to your lungs when those metal particles go in and of metal especially things like 10 can cause stenosis and that could constrict the. You know the airways in the lungs across the hall at u. C. Riverside theyre studying one of those compounds researcher a lot of is focused on nicotine concentrations and refillable. In this case the solution tested is tennessee cured by red oak a fluid made by Johnson Creek enterprises and online seller of the liquids and accessories we order a bunch of and just most of them just the accuracy of the label and in this case this is 18 micrograms per milliliter so theres been be considered a high nicotine concentration so the test here is well see how much its measuring from the speak and well compare that to whats on the label and as you can see from our control it was a lot higher so we know for sure that it is nicotine and recent paper that we published we found out that this specific sample was 59 percent higher nicotine than its advertise able to ever bought this way more than they bargained for yes they did techno asked Johnson Enterprises about its nicotine labeling discrepancy they offer this statement between 20112012 there was a noticeable improvement in our manufacturing process including in process controls an analytical methods for testing nicotine concentration with greater accuracy while the company stated claims point to a step in the right direction the red oak sample that they manufactured with the 59 percent higher nicotine discrepancy was purchased for the u. C. Riverside study online in february 2012 well within the range of Johnson Creek stated internal improvements in controls and accuracy but theyre not alone currently u. C. Riverside is evaluating a new batch of liquids from a variety of vendors and polyphony results continue to suggest large. Discrepancies in nicotine labeling throughout the industry just based on all the research that weve done you never know what youre getting it could be higher nicotine contribution it could be lower and although lower might sound better thats going to mean that you need smoke more interesting what your buy is normally used to researchers are also concerned about the content of the hundreds of flavored liquids that fuel our number one seller is from animal this is a cereal fruit loops flavored with a little bit of milk. A lot of the flavors that are regarded as grass is generally regarded as safe that is a term thats given to flavoring products that can be ingested whats happening to these flavoring products when theyre being aerosolized at these high temperatures and inhaled into the long you have chemical reactions that can break them down into a lot more toxic chemicals known as carbon compounds prime example being formaldehyde thats a very common when everyones heard of formaldehyde and everyone should know rather how it is and could be so in head to head comparison versus conventional cigarette which one do you think is healthier my opinion i think theyre both dangerous i think the narrative that most people are missing is that the Public Health opponents to vapor have lumped in vapor with the evil tobacco folks that they fought you know back in the eightys in the ninetys and so theyve decided that this is the exact same thing cynthia is the executive director for the Smoke Free Alternative Trade Association called safaga of aping lobby group we need to dispel the idea that these products Paper Products are the same as combusted Tobacco Products because theyre not so we need to look at any time that anyone is using a vapor product theyre not smoking and thats a win for everybody these east cigarettes they dont contain the 7000. 00 plus chemicals that conventional cigarettes have and thats always a plus but on the flip side i they do have their own so. Compounds that youre being exposed to unfortunately were going to have to wait for the long gemini studies but if i had to say what is more dangerous honestly i there very well to me that the food and Drug Administration which regulates tobacco is still reviewing vaporing regulations Travis Padgett has been smoking since high school today he veeps to cut down on tobacco use for me it was you know it was just kind of a different a minute now of microbiology major at u. C. Riverside travis is babying for science participating in a study that measures his intake puff duration volume and frequency when you get out of here youre going to have a science degree why not wait for science now before we know if its safe i mean its either a vapor a Smoke Cigarettes and we already know cigarettes are bad so roll the dice exactly its a roll of the dice some. Of the people that are choosing a thing over conventional cigarettes are choosing the unknown over the know and they know that conventional cigarettes and give them cancer theres a chance that its better and so theyre rolling the dice with that but theyre still gambling with their own how and sometimes adults are making more informed decisions with and you have all these kids will absolutely i mean adolescents there are still in a stage of Brain Development theyre not as capable as adults of making good decisions and theyre uniquely susceptible to addiction and usually weve got regulations in place that help protect for specifically those kind of cases but here its so many you know the regulations arent they havent kept up obviously thats a major concern all of the regulations of protections that we have developed for Tobacco Products conventional cigarettes are not there when it comes to things will go fascinating topic and im sure crystal youll keep us up to date on this but. I understand you want will watch you did i got to go will watching using drones in the sky so a little bit like spying but its a great way to observe whales that we normally wouldnt be able to see and we dont really disturb them at all. Most times when you see images from a drone something is exploding usually devastation from the air these are the military drones in service around the world. Closer to home in california theyre also used for important peacetime missions like assisting firefighters by mapping out hot spots during raging wildfires and much has been reported about the use of drones especially when it comes to military applications drones may even become the Delivery System for consumer goods but today off the coast of san simeon california researchers using drones like this one here behind me 1st spectacular use all in the name of science this is the peters walk of life station this is a very unique piece of property because it sticks out into the migratory corridor or of the northbound gray whale cows and calves a picture perfect location for researchers to fly a science drone to get an unprecedented birds eye view of what swims below right if they are right in the distance i got. It out there for 22 years wayne perry men and a team from noah have been here from march until may counting and collecting data on great whales migrating north from the breeding grounds of mexico to the arctic a trip of 6800 miles this point is kind of a focal point for them and were able to see them very very well they passed often within 100 meters of the beach so its a great place to count animals great whales swim close to land as protection against their main predator killer whales even so it takes a sharp eye and strong binoculars to spot the northern migration once they do its go time for a one of a kind Unmanned Aircraft named mostly. To the right to the right now move there and then i love the frame there at the. Going out on the Service Economy of the frame good come down a little that im getting to the right as im underwater know a scientist and pilot john durban is tracking a mother and her calf from a distance of about 3 quarters of a mile out from where he stands johns wife and co researcher Holly Fernbach is under the towel that shades a control panel giving her a real time video feed that aids in guiding the flight so when they come up next im going to move out of the matter taking out markel but the very right adds to be perfect so now its split 2nd timing for john to remotely trigger the camera to take High Definition photographs of the whales are going to be around the corner they went through there really quickly we got there we did well the. This is really a tool we have a flying a camera and were trying to make inference about size and shape of whales but taking photographs is cool photogrammetry so this is a camera and we want to get it above the whales. Mobley was built by don the boy at a cost of 25000. 00 it may look like a hobby a stream project but in fact its packed with many High Tech Systems to do science so its called a house a car because it has 6 motors and 6 rotors if its not being told what to do wants to us how were going to be stable in the air. Behind a finish and photos taken from the eye in the sky give scientists a better look at the Overall Health of the whales a female who has been eating a lot and she spat her whip relative to her leg will be different than a female who hasnt eaten very much so we can take just those 2 measurements and with those 2 we can get an index of condition index of that this or that female peri min says. The season many of the northbound lactating female gray whales observed appeared more robust than in previous years data that is important for many reasons will health give scientists a snapshot of the balancing act between food sources natural predators even Climate Change were getting to the point now where we really can talk about how Climate Change in the arctic is impacting this population now theres less ice and its then or theres more photosynthesis going on in the wintertime because like can penetrate and what we want to do is kind of understand that dynamic of whats going on. Recently john durban and the know its team took mobley to canada to study killer whales taken from 100 feet above this video the 1st of its kind give scientists a clearer picture of the health of northern resident killer whales in these images the whale on the right appears robust and in Good Condition while the whale on the left is then and in poor Health Scientists believe this will later died because it was no longer spotted with its pod. Killer whales report because the competing with this fish would try to understand all the getting enough food as this Technology Becomes available to more people were going to see more research is using it Safer Research say for the animals i think its a win win. From an emotional perspective just being able to see these incredibly beautiful species out in their Natural Environment wed never be able to do that and we dont have to disturb them to see them but in terms of the overarching story i mean a scientist you can collect data on 2 things what is and whats changing and it seems like this method allows them to collect data thats sort of speaking to both of those objectives theyre studying what is now and when things change well know yeah and i mean that also speaks to the importance of having these long term data sets right because you have to be able to establish a baseline. Which i think theyre doing very well you know with 22 years worth of data and now with with the changes of Climate Change you know that thats a really powerful set a date it to to give a sense of whats whats on the horizon. You are going to tell us about a unique skill or you took of a little unusual lab and its right here you know its basically a lab full of trash and for invited us to check out the ways that theyre making the Auto Industry a little bit greener so clearly a lot of environmental incentives here a plant there you know obviously when you use Recycled Materials over new ones are going to be saving a little bit of money but they also found some new ways to solve some old problems using some very cool methods so saying look. Its taken over a century but today Car Manufacturers are getting into high gear when it comes to going green from Hydrogen Fuel cell cars to electric plug ins and hybrids mileage is going up and with a least 10 percent of vehicles Environmental Impact in the Assembly Process manufacturing is going green to. Companies like toyota g. M. Volkswagen ford and honda are all stepping up eco friendly methods with 0 waste factories diverting millions of pounds from landfills reusing water recycling sludge and going solar powered and its not just assembly take forward 85 percent of its cars are renewable recyclable or compostable everything from recyclable aluminum bodies and engine parts to solar foam seats in fabrics made from 5000000 was cycled plastic bottles and this is where the ideas percolate the Materials Research lab at ford headquarters in dearborn michigan what would you say is the craziest thing that you guys work with when you think those are they hook ups yes oh these are secure. Filters its a cellulose yes a tape fiber and so were looking at that fiber as a reinforcement for plastics debbie moleski storage of the lab back in 2001 was sort of foam oil was about 40 dollars a barrel and so nobody saw a reason to use plant based materials even though there was an environmental improvement when we launched our soil based foams oil was about 150. 00 a barrel and so suddenly what was a very poorly received idea was very well received instead of the Petroleum Base the foam and every seat in north america is made of michigan soy and now the lab is testing algae oil with its more global reach plastics researcher ellen lead give techno the 1st public look at this newest experimental phone rang and have you had in the search back then this one. And thats acts like the egg and the plant everything you have there and then im going to have you add the following agent which in our case is water im going to mix this up. And then well see the foam start to react. World. There go if they can until a case you can see all the gas problems already we use this to kind of evaluate our formulation and how fast it comes out why is it important that this reacts fast how fast you can be made each part is really important for manufacturing because you want to be able to make things in a timely manner are we talking a matter of minutes per phone seat or seconds or less than 4 days aiming to make the plastics at least 20 percent bio based this actually making the plastic stronger yes it does. These parts are later in ways i can show you one that is made from temp versus glass and its about a 30 percent Weight Reduction so if we continue to do this we will improve fuel economy as well ford says its already diverted more than 30000000. 00 pounds of plas. From north american landfills with materials as diverse as we grass coconut hair shredded jeans and millions of dollars of green banks what a lot of people dont know as money isnt actually paper its a blend of cotton and linen try to grind it down into a smaller finer grunt Research Engineer giuseppe look tony has showed me how its done well its crime some wanting to use a crime grinder theres a shuttle that goes inside and using magnets it turns the magnets on and off and it will move the shuttle back and forth between the 2 metal and smash the money using liquid nitrogen around liquid nitrogen the liquid nitrogen will just cool the money down to a brittle so its easy to smash and turn on the machine. Is on yeah that. Powder morning then its melted in with plastic and formed into pellets you melt them down and then you formed them into things like this right and this is a coin trick that is a coin to your money money back into your vehicle what is this tomato favors these are actual skin sleeves and stems from the tomato plants from hiness ketchup production they process millions of pounds of tomatoes every year and they have a lot of leftover why is this a good product for you guys to use we can use this to reinforce our plastics to make them stiffer but then at the same time we can start in the lab is in the very early stages of testing the tomato based possibilities making samples been melting and mixing plastic extruding it into pellets and molds for testing new dimension part of the test is actually the smell you know if theyre driving a lot and they may not want to smell tomatoes because they make it every. So whats your big end goal for all this we all have kids and we want to make sure that theres a green nice planet for them with materials that they can continually replenished. I dont want them to depend on petroleum as their only source of materials. Sitting between you guys is of course 10000. 00 worth of cash but unfortunately it is old cash shredded would normally go to the trash but in this case theyre reusing it making corn trees that this idea of closing the materials and you know going as much as we possibly can towards 0 waste and manufacturing its not Just Lip Service anymore its happening and it makes total business sense i think its so interesting to see that cross Industry Collaboration like catch up and ford motors that these arent really 2 companies that i would think would Work Together in this way i mean i as a chemist i think a lot about it is a green chemistry that you want all of the by products of your chemical reactions to be used for their reactions and thats kind of like how i think about it but this is really created when your doctor crystal. That has been in the past only catch up and call interactions when i spilled ketchup and my car of been there from the california coast all the way over to detroit weve covered a lot of ground today guys and covered some pretty interesting topics so thanks for that level up more for you next time on techno see this dive deep into these stories and go behind the scenes with aljazeera dont comb slash techno follow our expert contributors on Twitter FacebookInstagram Google plus and more. Play an Important Role human. Face. In the far reaches of the New Siberian Islands gold rush fever is in the air. Hunters searching for priceless woolly mammoth tusks of on earth the holy grail. An incredible journey into the realms of Science Fiction where cloning and Synthetic Biology have scientists playing god. Witness genesis 2. 0 the hunt for the woolly mammoth on aljazeera. May own aljazeera will president rhodri go to tats a succeed in shutting down t. V. Giant a. B. S. 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