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Speaking of Air Filtration.....

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Speaking of Air Filtration.....

Barry Irby

I was watching a show about some fantastic detector they have installed about a mile underground to detect Nutrinoes or some such exotic particle. Said they can pass all the way through the Earth. Clean room conditions. Two showers to get in.

They said the conditions were less than 200 dust particles per cubic foot of air. And, outside in a typical urban setting there are 35 million particles per cubic foot of air. What????? 35 million?? I can't imagine. Seems like you would have to cut it with a knife. How can we survive breathing such stuff? I will be wearing my PPG until I learn more.

Is this possible?

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Bill Howatt

Apparently in an urban setting that is the number but it is per cubic meter, not cubic foot so it's about 30 times less, closer to 1,000,000 per cubic-ft. The particles are 0.5micrometer or larger.

I live in a partially rural area and if I go downtown in a big city, apart from the odors, I get a strange taste in my mouth after several hours outside so I certainly believe there is a lot of crap floating around in an urban setting. I don't seem to notice it after a while and I imagine the regular inhabitants don't notice it all.

Bill

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As a complete aside....

Ralph Lindberg

I just noticed in the new Grizzly flyer they can't sell their shop air-filters in California...

EH?

You aren't allowed to filter air in California?

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Joe Fleming

Re: As a complete aside....

Joe Fleming

I think California requires TEFC motors and I don' think Grizzly filter units use TEFC. Just a guess based upon their spec sheets.

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Wayne Kuhn

Air filtration causes cancer in California, as Ice tea would say "read the sign"

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