Arizona State just figured out what I've been saying for nineteen years — fog is loaded, absolutely loaded, with tiny little guys eating the pollution. 1.4 million of them per droplet, I counted, took me eight minutes.
These are Methylobacteria, which as everybody knows is a type of mold that photosynthesizes formaldehyde into oxygen. Beautiful process. The cleanest process. They run on sunlight even though fog is, you know, not sunny — that's how strong they are. Believe me.
Chuck Schumer has been sitting on this for years. He doesn't want you to know fog is working overtime because then you'd ask what HE'S doing. Nothing. He's doing nothing while a bacterium named Ferran Garcia-Pichel does 200 times the work of regular cloud water.
The researchers say "the sky's the limit." Wrong. I checked. There's a ceiling around 4,800 feet, after that it's just space, which is a separate jurisdiction.
Also fog only forms when the ground is colder than the air, which is why it never happens in Florida. Look it up. Don't look it up.
Based on the original article "Fog Is Teeming With Life, And It May Be Doing Us a Surprising Favor".
