Cool DIY HEPA filter project!

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sara wylie

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Aug 17, 2012, 11:00:15 AM8/17/12
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Originally from Fixers Collective...Has NYC Public Lab worked with these guys?


Anannop Onkaew

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Aug 19, 2012, 9:30:14 AM8/19/12
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Hi all,

 What point of this project interest you, Sara? Please advise. 

 Maybe this is my dull question and I am not an expert on this field.


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Originally from Fixers Collective...Has NYC Public Lab worked with these guys?


Sara Ann Wylie

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Aug 20, 2012, 12:17:45 PM8/20/12
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Hi Anannop,

This is interesting to me first because indoor air pollution is often over
looked as being a major contributor to diseases like asthma and allergies.
Frequently levels of pesticides, particulates (like dust) and allergens can
build up in home, triggering allergic reactions and asthma attacks. Currently
cleaning indoor air is pretty expensive. The article quote $80 to $800 for a
high quality air filtering system. The idea that someone can put one together
for $25 using materials from their hardware store an efficient air cleaning
system is remarkable. It opens the door to low-income communities being
able to
clean the air in their homes affordably.

Public Lab has been interested in what we've called "healthy home"
technologies--like the thermal flashlight: low cost DIY tools that people can
use to proactively improve the environmental health of their homes, so
secondly
it is great to see other researchers are starting to think along the
same lines.
I find it really exciting that a research scientist at Michigan should
choose to
design an affordable DIY tool as part of his research agenda. One of the
structural problems with environmental technologies is that they are generally
designed for high end consumers, or for industrial uses, not for the everyday
citizen. I find it really encouraging that Dr. Terrell took the time to design
for non-expert, non-corporate DIY communities.

Third and finally, his university reported it as news worthy! This
suggests that
the academic and academic media perception of the audience for scientific
research and technology development might be shifting, in my mind positively,
toward attention to projects and tools that anyone can affordably make
and use.

Hope that helps,

Sara

Quoting Anannop Onkaew <onk...@gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> What point of this project interest you, Sara? Please advise.
>
> Maybe this is my dull question and I am not an expert on this field.
>
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> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:00 PM, sara wylie
> <sa...@publiclaboratory.org>wrote:
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>> http://www.neswswise.com/articles/view/578280hi/?sc=mwtr&xy=5026150<http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/578280/?sc=mwtr&xy=5026150>
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>> Originally from Fixers Collective <http://fixerscollective.org/>...Has

Anannop Onkaew

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Aug 20, 2012, 8:16:55 PM8/20/12
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  Hi Sara,

   Thank you very much for showing your opinion. 

   I search the net with the simple word [DIY air filter], there is some information similar to Dr.Terrell's work.

   Or is the advantage point of his project to use HEPA filter that is more effective than other brand ?

   I will find information with another source too.


Thank you
Nop

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