Feb 10, 2006

Voodoo Insecticide

Posted in Chemistry at 8:00 am by David Bradley -- Click to comment

Regular visitor Rob Bowen emailed to tell me about the TechNeed site. Apparently, these guys want suggestions on how to create a chemical-free way to get rid of pests that won’t stain the carpet.

Well, efforts to find anything that is chemical free are doomed to failure from the off, unless you’re talking some energy form. Presumably, the chemophobics who write the site mean they want a physical method rather than something that relies on a compound acting as insecticide, which is fair enough.

But, Rob reckons the constraints they apply to their request for such a chemical-free pest remover are so tight that the only thing approach left is voodoo.

So, we’ll wait with interest to see if a commercially viable product emerges from this call to arms. I reckon they could cross-market it with those magnetic water softeners you wrap around your standpipe that are supposed to reduce limescale build up.

File under “pseudoscientific claptrap”

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