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2020-04-06 Science & Technology

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Posted by 3dc 2020-04-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 What about ionic air filters for trapping the floating virus particles? Cleaning might take some precautions, though...

Posted by magpie 2020-04-06 01:10|| 2020-04-06 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe UV light?

Posted by gorb 2020-04-06 07:27|| 2020-04-06 07:27|| Front Page Top

#3 I wondered about U-V light too. There seems to be some uncertainty as to whether COV-19 is airborne/windborne. There also seems to be uncertainty about the "viral shedding" mechanism of COV-19.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-04-06 10:38|| 2020-04-06 10:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Shortwave UV, the stuff that kills the virus, is dangerous to eyes.

Installing 'em just downstream from HVAC economizers may be an effective prophylaxis, however.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-04-06 10:47|| 2020-04-06 10:47|| Front Page Top

Daikin photocatalytic Air purifier
dust mesh
HEPA
UV
Photocatalyst (for smells).

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-04-06 11:50|| 2020-04-06 11:50|| Front Page Top

#6 I use an ozone generator. I rotate it between rooms. You CAN NOT be in the room when it runs. But ozone kills everything. It is a gas (obviously) and penetrates / disperses like a gas. Besides the upside of killing everything in the air or on exposed surfaces, or even into the mattress of a made bed you don't have to worry about getting all the air in a room through it like you do a filter. Plus it self quenches. Just don't let it be you that is the quencher.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-04-06 12:16|| 2020-04-06 12:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Just in case it should ever become relevant, Whiskey Mike, does ozone kill bedbugs, too?

Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-06 12:22|| 2020-04-06 12:22|| Front Page Top

#8 You grandmother or great grandmother would put a pot of water on the stove and set it to simmer. Add cup of vinegar white or apple. When you smell it, it kills it.

Posted by Dale 2020-04-06 12:29|| 2020-04-06 12:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes. In very controlled situations, has been used in vivo for pneumonia. And mites found in bedding (and on your face but not a brilliant cure for facial mites as the host suffers). Seriously upsets ants too, the hardy little buggers. They die but most seek new horizons.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-04-06 13:17|| 2020-04-06 13:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Doing the same Mike but all our units can be dialed down. If you only have an on switch and a timer, that's pretty bad.

We started using Ozone over 20 years ago for mold and virus mitigation. Fantastic and simple. But again they have to be dialed down.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-04-06 19:28|| 2020-04-06 19:28|| Front Page Top

#11 UV is pretty good at killing everything that requires a microscope(and/or stain) to see it. Reef tankers have been using them in aquariums for years. One speed(of water flow) to kill algae, another to take out parasites and bacteria. It works (UVC, that is) by wrecking DNA, so if you go that route put it in a box. If you can see the light, it is mutating your DNA and you will have poor results as regards personal health.

Posted by Beau 2020-04-06 22:48|| 2020-04-06 22:48|| Front Page Top

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