How To Improve Indoor Air Quality

Рет қаралды 19,306

Күн бұрын

Why do we pay attention to the quality of our drinking water, but not to our indoor air? Scientific American's Senior Health Editor, Tanya Lewis, explains how and why this matters.

Пікірлер: 47

@grantraynard Жыл бұрын

How about putting the link to those plans in the description

@osmia 7 ай бұрын

@cleanaircreworg Жыл бұрын

Here are directions for making your own DIY air filter - the CorsiRosenthal Box cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-filters/

@scottboyce Жыл бұрын

I suggest you pin this comment

@hikingontario Жыл бұрын

Good to know! Thank you for sharing! Greetings from Canada!💯💯✅✅😃😃

@AhmedSaeed97 Жыл бұрын

FYI, the DIY box is very loud

@mrcuttime22 Жыл бұрын

I set mine to medium or low after a while. As long as it works, eh?

@SweetMagnolia41 10 ай бұрын

If you do the PC fan model, the noise is less than many HEPA devices

@mrcuttime22 Жыл бұрын

Moving into an apartment after three decades in houses, I'm learning how bad CO2 build-up can be, esp. since it pools from the floor up, and my futon bed is low. A C-R filter works great, but I'm considering a soda lime filter for the CO2. This might be particularly helpful around babies and day care, if there are no side-effects.

@AIRVALENT 4 ай бұрын

If you are interested in CO2 monitoring, we have a new model that is small and compact: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sJtpqchouZqUZ4E.html

@soulshinobi Жыл бұрын

Can you put that link to DIY filters in the description?

@mrcuttime22 Жыл бұрын

The Corsi-Rosenthal filter is easy to search on KZfaq, or even to imagine taping a 20x20 filter to a simple box fan. I have two and they work fairly well. The Corsi is a step up.

@andreaorzati4196 Жыл бұрын

It would be also interesting to understand which role do sensors (CO2, PM2.5 etc..) play in this, especially if energy efficiency of the whole system is also a factor which need to be watched. What do you guys think?

@milesdyett4922 Жыл бұрын

As an ex HVAC tech A simple box fan motor will burn up due to restriction of the said filters. I recommend getting one from a store with a good warranty, because it will get hot and fail. Have you ever seen a box fan sold with a filter? Or seen filters made for box fans?

@awhatsname Жыл бұрын

Hi Miles. I had similar concerns and initially watched my Corsi Rosenthal boxes like a hawk. It turns out that the four (or even five) filter cube design allows so much airflow that there really isn't much resistance on the fan motor at all. I have regularly run them in 8-hour intervals for six months without issue. Common sense stuff like not running them in an unoccupied space is still smart though. 👍 The only box fan/filter model I am aware of is the Lasko FF305 Air Flex 2-in-1. It uses a MERV 10 filter, and I wouldn't feel comfortable upping it to the recommended MERV 13.

@TonyColaneri Жыл бұрын

www.epa.gov/air-research/research-diy-air-cleaners-reduce-wildfire-smoke-indoors

@andrewm8831 Жыл бұрын

Very neglected area in regards to public health

@facitenonvictimarum174 Жыл бұрын

Pass gas outdoors.

@yerkesartay441 Жыл бұрын

🤣

@Datacorrupter234 Жыл бұрын

equity equity equity please say something different about my equity for a change tired of getting picked over by my own damn family im on an air quality video not the zoo!

@Life_42 Жыл бұрын

Always sneeze out your window!

@jcnot9712 Жыл бұрын

Any new yorkers here?

@mikepict9011 Жыл бұрын

Youd think more people, could do more work . But now more people mean more assistance. Because equality of .......... gun power ?

@fefifofob Жыл бұрын

The answer is always to force people to do our bidding.

@joshreeder3205 Жыл бұрын

She’s soooooo scared of Covid and did soooooo many things to prevent it and still got it, but she wants you to know how wonderful and better than us she is. How does she work at a science magazine? Incredible.

@Josh-Parkhill 8 ай бұрын

What you said makes no sense

@joshreeder3205 8 ай бұрын

@@Josh-Parkhill ok

@dgrfsthrgsergwrtghasefq Жыл бұрын

Or we could stop listening to the advice given by people who are freaked out by life in general (like video above) for a virus that is mild in nature who do not kow what they are talking about Seriously you work for a "science magazine"..... and your duct tape filter box in a dorm room is not comparable to a hospital.

@Josh-Parkhill 8 ай бұрын

Bad air quality makes me sick, I guess “I must be freaked out by life in general”

@stevehayward1854 Жыл бұрын

I was with you until you brought race into it.

@tomschmidt381 Жыл бұрын

It is not race so much as socioeconomic status. The most deleterious environmental industries are often located in poor areas because they lack the resources to contest placement.

@tbird81 Жыл бұрын

Your own fault for being with her until that. This was clearly bullshit from the start.

@olorin4317 Жыл бұрын

Such a delicate flower. Please, no one remind him that there are people who are different. Steve is sensitive.

@HarryManback0 Жыл бұрын

@@olorin4317 Your leftist bullshit is no longer welcome anywhere.

@Necr0Mancer666 Жыл бұрын

Last 2 and half years I have spent mostly indoors due to the situation. I never fell sick, I never contracted COVID. Indoor air quality is anyway good considering you stay in a less polluted environment. So these videos are just money making schemes to make Dyson or other companies rich!

@olorin4317 Жыл бұрын

You figured it out. Will the fan industry ever grow tired of manipulating us with their insidious viral marketing?

@Necr0Mancer666 Жыл бұрын

@@olorin4317 Fan cools your body through surface evaporation. Dont know about viral marketing but fans are necessary.

@Facetiously.Esoteric Жыл бұрын

Lmao You really aren't very smart are you?