Are you high? "Ozone" is what the air is SUPPOSED to smell like. Right after Mother Nature sends down a rainstorm to tidy up, the smell in the air is ozone until we pollute it back up again.itsbob said:
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Every scientific discovery has its watershed moment. In indoor air quality, one of the great watershed moments in the awareness of indoor ozone came in 1983 when a student at the University of Colorado in Boulder wrote a paper for his science class about his summer job.
He titled it “Ozone Toxicity – How Copier Machines Made Me Sick.” The student had worked in a small windowless room in the university library. His job was to run off copies for the school’s professors. Soon, he developed headaches, a cough, irritated sinuses, and a myriad of other symptoms. Somehow, he got steered in the direction of what was making him sick. The copier machines were creating the lung irritant ozone, the main component of smog.
What no one could have expected was the domino effect that came next. The student took his paper to the local copy shop to have copies printed for his class. The copy shop workers saw the paper and made copies for themselves. Many of them had been experiencing the same problems, but they didn’t know what had caused their symptoms.
Soon, copies of the paper started to circulate to other shops that were part of the same national chain of copier stores. As awareness of the issue grew, the copier machines were fitted with ozone filters, ventilation was added to the shops, and copier maintenance companies began to stress the need to maintain the filters properly. The problem was corrected quietly – very quietly.
OZONE is a pollutant.. NOT a good thing..
He titled it “Ozone Toxicity – How Copier Machines Made Me Sick.” The student had worked in a small windowless room in the university library. His job was to run off copies for the school’s professors. Soon, he developed headaches, a cough, irritated sinuses, and a myriad of other symptoms. Somehow, he got steered in the direction of what was making him sick. The copier machines were creating the lung irritant ozone, the main component of smog.
What no one could have expected was the domino effect that came next. The student took his paper to the local copy shop to have copies printed for his class. The copy shop workers saw the paper and made copies for themselves. Many of them had been experiencing the same problems, but they didn’t know what had caused their symptoms.
Soon, copies of the paper started to circulate to other shops that were part of the same national chain of copier stores. As awareness of the issue grew, the copier machines were fitted with ozone filters, ventilation was added to the shops, and copier maintenance companies began to stress the need to maintain the filters properly. The problem was corrected quietly – very quietly.
OZONE is a pollutant.. NOT a good thing..
itsbob
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The spin that these radio spots and infomercials put on ozone generating air cleaners would be laughable if it wasn’t so frightening: “Smell that sweet fresh ozone in your home.” “One unit is good for a whole house.” “It’s nature’s way of freshening the air.” “These machines are used by the Pentagon.” Astonishingly, one ozone-producing air cleaner has even been able to convince a national allergy and asthma support organization into putting its seal of approval onto all of their advertising. A recent trend has been to drop the word “ozone” out of the ads for these machines completely.
You fell for the "SPIN"
You fell for the "SPIN"