>Just for CO/CO2. You need something like the X-ray workers wear, that >bleeps cheerfully when it's time to go spend a few centuries in your >corpsicle tank till things improve somewhat. > >It needs to read the stuff behind the increasingly regular >announcements in ever more cities cancelling school and warning kids >and old people to stay indoors. That's just smog though, the >cancer-causing stuff is less easily measured, and how much does it >take to cause cancer? One molecule, no? In theory. Which precise one >does the job being the question. > >The Japanese are into this stuff a bit. I see water testing kits in >some of the shops, not quite sure what they do, or how well.
Note that I hope we can crosspost a bit here, I'd like to see more opinions. Thx for the feedback. I'd like to see a start toward just generally giving it a shot. Obviously, one can't make a super-accurate measure-everything affordable home-kit. We have good smoke detectors, and now CO-detection. Radon? I'm not sure if that's affordable or if you have to have outsiders come in. So, I'd like to see progress, or inventions, in giving a much better picture, say percentages of the basic gasses in the house. This would help, for example, folks to better understand that when they sleep in an enclosed environment without much fresh air, they probably bring the O2 levels well down and the CO2 levels way up. I was thinking about this today, and I can't even remember a single meteorological news story (i.e. the Weather) which gave any real indication of gas percentage levels of the common gasses or uncommon ones, with the exception of Ozone and some other particulates or pollutants. I mean, I would have no idea of O2 percentage that is normal, and most people wouldn't. Yet, why not make it part of common knowledge? With water, I think that a good solid expose of what's actually in our water is always a story waiting to happen. People do have an excellent sense that there might, or might not, be something wrong, and they've already proven that they are *quite* ready to spend money for quality water, or to avoid even potentially bad water, such as by buying tap filters (not that cheap!) and by buying bottled water (more expensive than Gas here). This is a night-time local news story always waiting to happen, for the enterprising journalist. Lately I have noticed a good (great) trend in the local news of a couple of newscasters really putting themselves out there as consumer advocates who get action on important issues. I wonder when they will get into this one. >With pesticide residues, MM. I can't see simple tests for that, I >think there are too many of them, and the tests aren't so simple. >Also, as with food additives etc (5,000-odd of them in use, all had >the same safety tests as thalidomide, none of them tested in >combination, and the average Westerner consumes the equivalent of 13 >aspirin-sized rablets of them per day), there's the possibility that >they might be benign (more or less) taken singly, but can be highly >toxic in combination combination. What combination, exactly? How many >in combination? It gets too complex. The best way is avoidance, if >possible, and that is becoming more possible. That and ban the stuff, >it's all worse than useless anyway. I think folks will be more motivated to practice avoidance if they have access to information, detailed information, as to non-food residues which are in their food. While you may be quite familiar with such information, many others are not. So, I think such tests go hand in hand. Your point as to the difficulty of doing them is well-taken. So, here it would be more a matter of such an expensive laborious task being done at a less-frequent higher level, such as at a good University, in an ongoing process. I'm not sure if Consumer Reports would be up to doing such tests and exposes, on food, water, air, but I'd like to see it. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Plan to Sell a Home? http://us.click.yahoo.com/J2SnNA/y.lEAA/jd3IAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
