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Yeah but what do those radicals do to human tissue? Ozone isn't all that great for your lungs.
by 01100011 8y ago
Yeah but what do those radicals do to human tissue? Ozone isn't all that great for your lungs.
- swebs 8y agoI believe the idea is that the plasma never leaves the filter.
- Filligree 8y agoIf it's great at destroying viruses, it's probably great at damaging human tissue as well.
- Gravityloss 8y agobut if it doesn't stick around for a long time, that's very useful!
- sametmax 8y agoNot the point. The idea is that you can quickly sterelize a room buy pumping the stuff then flushing it. It opens the possibility of regular automatic ER cleaning without the need for human intervention and error, plus faster.
- da_chicken 8y agoOkay, so you sterilize the air and then pump the sterilized air out. Where do you want to get the air to replace that air with? What good is sterilizing the air if you've got to replace the air after you've sterilized it because it's contaminated with ozone? Is this just a case of not wanting to vent air with more parasites than the atmosphere outside the ER?
- pilsetnieks 8y agoOzone has a half-life of a few hours to a few days, depending on temperature and airflow, so the problem eventually solves itself.
- da_chicken 8y agoNot if you're using it after every procedure.
- sbzodnsbd 8y ago- You can use catalysts - you can pump outside air and exhaust the ozone to the outside (creates smog though)
- sametmax 8y agoThe question is more : does it sterilize surfaces well ? The air is not the most important in the ER.
- da_chicken 8y agoThat's not what they were studying. The title of the study linked in the article is, "Inactivation of airborne viruses using a packed bed non-thermal plasma reactor".