| Re: [GMCnet] Tid Bit. Get RID of all types of odders. Not cover them over. [message #339504 is a reply to message #339490] |
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Matt Colie
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Registered: March 2007
Location: S.E. Michigan
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Ok, Here he goes again.....
Ozone is neat stuff.
If you listen to OSHA and the EPA, it is dangerous.
They say this for two reasons, one is that they do not know any better and anything that powerful just has to be bad. The other is that chemical companies that do sell chlorine and other halogens would be out of business if people cleaning things knew that they could take in air (that is 20% oxygen) add some energy and have an very effective amount of ozone to do what they need to do. Then, there is the issue that ozone has a hard time creating toxic compounds. Halogens have no problem there.
When I was at Thetford, an associate was working on a small sewage treatment system that could completely treat the waste water flow from a small residence (like a cottage in the woods) so that it could be surface discharged. It required no chemicals to be brought in, and had a operational life of decades, but it did require a small amount of electricity for pumps and to convert air to about 3% ozone. While I was working with him, he twice was subjected to what OSHA insisted was a "lethal" concentration of ozone and he had no ill effects after five minutes and only lived another twenty years. It can damage lungs in those high concentrations, but because there is nothing involved but oxygen, (lungs know what to do with oxygen) the damage done has been shown to be very fast healing and "scarless".
The thing to watch out for with ozone is that it will attack some materials. Styrenes, vinyls and some elastomers are among those. ABS, a plastic that was used a lot in our coaches, is pretty resistant to it.
The whole time that my friend remained involved with the International Ozone Institute (most of rest of his life), he was battling the authorities for less restriction of its use and more acceptance of its value.
Matt
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan with OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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