Air Pollution 📍

Things related to air pollution from large industrial sources of pollution.

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Not knowing the difference between carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide is the not knowing the difference between death and life. 🙍🏼‍♂️☠

Humans create both when they burn calories in their bodies. Carbon dioxide is the normal byproduct but any burning process has some incomplete combustion creating carbon monoxide including human cells.

Carbon monoxide is very poisonous to muscles including the heart so red blood cells have a strong affinity to it to purge muscles of it. But excessive carbon monoxide in red blood cells reduces the ability of them to also carry oxygen, which leads to suffocation.

As schools spend millions on air purifiers, experts warn of overblown claims and harm to children | PBS NewsHour

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As schools spend millions on air purifiers, experts warn of overblown claims and harm to children | PBS NewsHour

School officials desperate to calm worried parents bought these devices and others with a flood of federal funds, installing them in more than 2,000 schools across 44 states, a KHN investigation found. They use the same technology — ionization, plasma and dry hydrogen peroxide — that the Lancet COVID-19 Commission recently deemed “often unproven” and potential sources of pollution themselves.