Raise your hand if your air quality after fireworks in this heat wave took a nose dive. Our air was pretty much as usual. You? I'm in the rust belt
Replying to @Lizette603_23@mastodon.social
@Lizette603_23 I don't have outdoor air quality metering right now (on the list).
Inside my lab, there was a measurable spike but not enormous - on par with what I get when I run the ventilation fan to bring the CO2 levels down, but I wasn't running the fan (meaning the outdoor levels were much higher and I was just getting what snuck in through diffusion.
Replying to @azonenberg@ioc.exchange
@azonenberg I have a local reporting agency that includes that information from their station about three miles away from me. I don't measure inside, but my lungs aren't good and I can feel it when it rises in nastiness, so to speak, so I have large air filter units inside our living space that help most of the time. We got them when the drift from the Canadian fires last year almost took me out. PS you and I assume your boy are adorable in the picture.
Replying to @Lizette603_23@mastodon.social
@Lizette603_23 yeah my lab is near-cleanroom conditions most of the time so when the AQI gets above zero that's a notable event lol. But if I'm working there for a long time I have to turn on the fan to get the CO2 levels under control and the intake filtration isn't as good as I'd like (or junk is creeping in through leaks in the walls etc unfiltered).
I really want a proper HEPA filtered ERV or something but whatever, maybe one day. Actually not really an ERV because I want to reject heat (the lab is normally hotter than the outside except at the peak of summer days but a forced in-and-out ventilator rather than just an exhaust fan and makeup duct that leaves the lab negatively pressured so gunk can get in.
We have filters in the rest of the house too, although I don't currently have monitoring/logging there. I have some sensor units a friend built but until she 3d prints the cases to go with them I can't safely deploy or easily wall mount them, they're just fragile bare boards at the moment.
And she just had short hair back then, she's 4 now but I've kept the pic in part out of laziness and in part because she's pretty unrecognizable there (all babies look about the same even without the sunglasses lol)