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Welcome to my blog for indoor purified air. Why is purifying the air you breathe so important? The long and the short of it . . . for your health. You wouldn’t eat spoiled food or drink contaminated water, would you? Well, you might if there were no other options. There are options, healthy options for you and your family. This holds true especially for the air you breathe. According to the EPA, Americans spend most of their time indoors. (90% in a home / work environment) breathing air that is worse than the pollution you encounter when you step into the great outdoors. Stands to reason when the weather reports we hear every day include a clean air index for our respective areas, that things aren’t what they used to be even a decade ago. Some days are good for jogging and some days are better spent not breathing so deeply. According to leading climatologists many of those same pollutants are responsible for the climate change we are experiencing even now. If the air outside our windows is bad, the air inside is worse from the contaminants we create through our everyday lifestyles in our own homes. Logic dictates if the air outside can harm you, what we breathe on the inside came from the outside most likely didn’t improve when it made it indoors. It is widely believed the filters in our HVAC systems treat the air but that is not quite the reality. Most HVAC systems utilize filters to clean the air as it circulates through your home. Depending on the efficiency of the filter known as MERV rating (Minimum Efficiency Rating Value). The lower the number, the lower its ability to filter particulates out of the air you breathe. Most homes, and businesses, for that matter recirculate the air we breathe passing it only through the filter located in our HVAC systems. That is not enough. Ever look through a shaft of sunlight entering through and unshaded window and saw all the floaties? This is what your furnace or HVAC filter didn’t catch. Those are known as particulates, and they are what you take into your body every time you inhale. What you can’t see as plainly are the aerosols. Among these aerosols are things like fungi, bacteria, viruses and solid particulates too small to be seen with the naked eye. Add to this mix VOC’s. Volatile Organic Compounds such as, paint fumes, vapor from chemical cleaners, hair spray and cooking oil and pressurized propellants to name a few. Add in carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, radon, smoke, allergens and a few other nasties into the mix and indoor air quality suffers greatly. I think you get the point. While we are young and healthy, for the most part, our lungs and immune systems can handle this abuse but only for a time. Like getting cancer from smoking tobacco products, there comes a time when the overload is too much, and things begin to break down. Diseases like lung cancer, COPD, asthma, mesothelioma, Covid-19, its variants and more have many root causes but do have a single causality in common. They are all delivered as air borne pathogens. Standard HVAC systems can not filter these out completely. That is a one stage process. However, filtration combined with other robust technologies can. How so? You might ask and I would answer with the following: Don’t just filter the air . . . PURIFY it. To remove almost 100% of the contaminates from the air you breathe requires the following technologies to be combined in a synergistic design utilizing these components: Permanent Pre-Filter: Cleanable Fine Mesh Ultrafine Aerosol Particulate Filter: HEPA-Rx Activated Carbon: Broad spectrum adsorption, coconut shell, activated carbon filter Hydroxy Radical Reactivity Chamber: Photocatalytic TiO2 (Titanium Dioxide) mixed phase anatase and rutile. Revitalizing Negative Ion Chamber: 3,000,000 ions/cm3 negative ion generator. (No Ozone) Now, most of that, is straight from the tech brochure of the Jade Air Purifier by Surgically Clean Air Inc. That list of five breaks down to plainer English in the following list of 5: The pre-filter keeps stuff like dog and cat hair, dust motes and the bigger junk from clogging up the filter behind it. It’s the outside case of the machine and it can be cleaned with a damp cloth. The HEPA-Rx filter does the “heavy lifting” cleaning out all the rest of the solid particulates down to the microscopic. The “charcoal filter” takes out the VOC’s and other odors, so you don’t half to smell, let alone inhale them. Step 4 is known as the “kill chamber” using far range UV-C light that reacts with titanium dioxide in a photocatalytic reaction to destroy almost 100% of viruses (Including Covid-19 and all its cousins), bacteria, mold and other spores. Yes, the phrase was “Kill Chamber” and it does destroy Covid-19 and the rest mentioned including HIV in aerosol form. After taking all of that out, the Jade adds something back. Negative ions which have been proven in hospital, business and other settings, including the home, to increase mental alertness and energy. (a natural “stay-awake without caffeine” kind a gig) (No Ozone) This is not in the “list of five” but it bears mentioning. Every cubic foot of air drawn into this whisper quiet machine passes through each stage of the purifying process. All of it through sealed flow chambers designed to make sure what comes out is not polluted by existing room air. (And it does it quietly) Did I mention it does it quietly? Let’s face it folks, our environment is getting less human-friendly as time goes on. While most of its problems seem out of control for the time being, there are things we can do to protect ourselves, our co-workers and our families. I’m going to leave the climate issues in the hands of the climatologists and scientific community. Hopefully, our leaders will begin to pay attention and do the right things. But as far as breathing healthier, living longer and doing all that is possible to defeat Covid, we can help ourselves, those we care for and those passersby. Regarding the common sense of everyday living. Find time to find your knees and talk to the Creator. He’s waiting. Next, work hard, worry less, eat to live but don’t live to eat. Take time for appreciating the roses and less time on unnecessary imaginings. Enjoy the majesty of a star bedazzled, midnight sky. See the ocean tides dance as they encounter patiently awaiting shores. Climb unscalable mountains just for the sake of their inspiring vistas. Take a deep breath now and then. Breathe in the freshness of a passing thunderstorm (nature’s air purifier) while walking in the rain. Finally, fight the disease that threatens all of us on a global basis, Covid-19. It will be beaten but it will take the best in all of us to do so.  Follow CDC guidelines; use common sense in wearing masks, get vaccinated, keep your distance when you need to, wash your hands as you know you should, and clean your environment properly and don’t leave out the air you breathe. Ventilate properly and purify if you can. What the Jade kills, almost 100%, you do not have to suck in. If it can’t get to you, it can’t infect you. You can reduce/eliminate the viral load around you before it becomes the viral load in you. The rest of what the Jade Air Purifier can do for you and all those around you is just icing on the cake.