Painting Away Air Pollution with Adam Huss

Welcome to Dr. Dana's Show and Tell. Today, we're gonna have an amazing guest on our show today named Adam Huss. Adam is the VP of a company called Smog Armor. Adam, come out please. And you gotta hear, yeah, you gotta hear what this company's doing. It's gotta be one of the most innovative companies I've ever heard of, and that's why Adam flew out all the way out here just to do this segment. So please, let us know a little bit about what's going on with your company and what's happening. Absolutely, so first off, thanks for having me on the show. You know, I know we talked before and you brought out the plant, which is absolutely symbolic, because what we have done is created the first ever carbon-negative air-purifying paint. And part of that- Paint, like a paint. Absolutely, paint on your walls, paint on your wall. So it works actually in a trifecta. One, it will actually absorb and reduce- Trifecta. Three things, you mean? Three things. It will actually absorb and reduce the odor in your house. It will absorb and reduce and remove VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, which we can go into. And of course, the great part is it actually removes your carbon footprint in terms of carbon dioxide produced, to the point where one gallon used in your house over the course of a year will absorb the same amount of CO2 that a full-size adult tree will remove during one year. Really? I didn't understand, and he explained it to me in the back a little bit more technically, is that how could something on your wall take something out of the air? So if that's something maybe you can explain in layman's terms? Sure, so the easiest layman term to put it in the way that I always say it is essentially using our paint on your wall is the equivalency of putting in a giant HEPA filter with the efficacy that'll last you somewhere between five to seven years, depending on, obviously a family of five or six is gonna be a different CO2 footprint and different output than a single guy living in a condo. But really what it boils down to is the active mineral that we use in our paint, in its chemistry compound, is a negatively ionic charged mineral. Now this mineral is actually used by Honeywell in the International Space Station for the breathing apparatus for the astronauts. Is this from like the meteorites? No, no, so the meteorite is actually a different one. That actually blocks EMF, and we can talk about that maybe in the future, just a little hint drop, but we're gonna leave it there for now. But for what we're dealing with, this is actually a mineral that was created over thousands upon thousands of years where ancient lava collided with cold ocean water, creating these mineral deposits. Now the great part about it is because it's negatively ionic charged, and typically VOCs and CO2, air pollutants in general, are positive ion, that magnet works there. And because we use a water-based paint, what it does is it works as, it's porous, so it works as a sponge, where it will absorb that and allow the paint to trap it. And then you don't have to detox the walls or anything? That's the great part is once it's trapped in there, you can simply just paint over it when the efficacy starts running down after about five to seven years. You can choose to scrape it, you can choose to sandblast it, whatever the case may be. And the great part is even doing that is not going to re-release what it has captured. The only thing that it will do that is if it's burning at about 400 degrees Fahrenheit or more. And at that point, your dwelling might be on fire and we might have other issues that we need to focus it on before air pollution is a situation. No problem, man. So one other thing I wanna ask you, you said you have a new plant in California that's completely solar-based, making these paints, right? So we're working with a new manufacturing facility. Our home-based manufacturing facility is over in Sarasota, Florida. It's where our company is based out of. However, we have people that are part of our staff that are in Greece. We have people that are in Mexico. So I mean, we're really a global company without the intentions of being that big just yet. But really what it came down to was we wanted to see what we could do to make things further as well as reduce our footprint when it comes to shipping products. So whether it be GCs, contractors, or just your run-of-the-mill single-family home can use our products, and we're not creating a giant footprint by shipping from Florida to the Pacific Northwest or over here to the West Coast in California. So we teamed up with a new manufacturing facility. They are 100% based on solar energy. So therefore, we're eliminating a massive piece of the carbon footprint that we can create. Thank you. My pleasure. Thank you, awesome. Good, I'm glad you're doing what you're doing. Thank you.