Scott Redfield
(Start by
asking everyone to stand up)
"Okay, everybody, take a
deep, refreshing breath of air, in through the nose
and out through the mouth.
You inhale roughly 1 liter
of air with each breath along with 70,000 particles.
Less than one half of one percent of those particles
are visible.
A human hair is 100
microns in diameter. The period on a sentence is 650
microns in diameter. You can visibly see with good
eyesight and good lighting down to 30 microns. All
of the bad stuff in the air—bacteria, mold,
viruses, pollen—is less than one micron. A smoke
particle is 1/100th of a micron. If I release a
smoke particle in the air at 8 feet, it comes
crashing to the ground 408 days later. That means
it's in your breathing space, along with all of the
other pathogens, for months.
After you take your
cleaning breath, remember that you do that 15-16
times per minute every minute of your life. If you
don't have an efficient air purification system, you
and your family are the air purification system.
He sprayed a large portion
of a paper towel and passed that around the
audience. Then he hung the paper towel in front of
the Fresh Air (by putting the bottle
on one corner of the towel).
I'm very careful about the
onion test. I rub the appropriate hand with onion
juice so it is easy for a person to stand with their
hand in front of the unit and face the audience. I
use a smelly onion and say, "Now in normal
conditions this onion smell would stay on your hand
for six to eight hours. Right?" Wouldn't you
consider it remarkable if the onion smell dissipated
in one hour? What if it was substantially gone
within a minute?
Now let's make some smoke
here in this acrylic box. (I
always put in 5 drops of oil. I want a very heavy
buildup of smoke in my box.
It makes for a more dramatic demonstration. I like
to turn on the smoke a second time and start just
the needlepoint ionizer while the smoke is flowing
up.
The ions just knock it out of the air as it forms
and pin the smoke to the bottom of the box.)
A smoke particle is a
particle just like a golf ball, except it's
extremely small. Imagine a frying pan of burning
bacon on the stove with your ceiling fans running
and your air conditioning system circulating the
air. Within just a few minutes it is in every nook
and cranny of the house. You can't filter smoke out
because the particles are too small. The only way to
remove it is to open every door and window in the
house and try to vent it. Even after four hours you
can still smell the bacon smoke.
The air handler, which is
a passive technology, just redistributes the smoke
and other pathogens throughout the house.
With our ionization, we
cause the particles to stick together, get bigger,
and fall out of the indoor air 250 times faster.
Much like snowflakes float and snowballs crash.
Pass the paper towel
around.
Now we are going to talk
about another technology that's called oxidation. At
the same time that we are dropping particles out of
the air in all directions around our ionizer systems, we are sending
out an invisible plasma of friendly oxidizers. They spread through the house much like the smoke
that is coming off that burning frying pan. We take
oxygen and water vapor and through the use of a UVX
light that activates the honeycomb catalyst we
breakdown the oxygen(O2) and
water vapor(H2O) that occur
naturally in our air to ozone(O3),
oxygen(O2) minus an electron,
hydroxyl radicals (OH), vaporous hydrogen peroxide
(H2O2)
and super hydroxides (O2H).
These five oxidizers have a few things in common.
They all occur naturally. They are all combinations
of oxygen and hydrogen. And they are all very
unstable. As these invisible oxidizers go out, they
bump into mold, viruses, bacteria and other
pollutants. They oxidize those things much like fire
reduces a log into a little bit of ash, and they
revert back to water vapor and oxygen, a very
natural process. These oxidizers go out there like
little yellow Pacmen. They do this actively throughout the
house. They not only clean the air, they clean the
flush handles, the door knobs, the countertops,
literally every surface in the house, 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week.
If I had influenza (rubs
hand across nose and sniffles) and I touch
the doorknob that virus will stay there and be
viable for 48 hours. If we have this technology
going, the virus on the doorknob is up against a
99.9% kill rate in the very first hour.
NOTE:
The petri dish is a result of a sterile swab
sampling technique (Q-tip with a college education)
in a residence. The swab is then sent to Enviro
Screening Labs for evaluation. The lab "grows" the
sample in a culture dish for 72 hours and than
screens for toxic molds and bacteria. They qualify
(identify) and quantify (count). In the "before"
sample there was so much bacteria that the lab uses
a category called TNTC, which means "too numerous to
count". The three toxic molds; Cladosporium,
Aspergillus, and Penicillium had a total of 26 CFU
(colony forming units) per square inch of dish
material. There is usually a lot of other stuff
picked up, but the lab ignores it in their screening
process. The "after" result shown is dramatically
pristine. Results are not always this clean. In
this case the sterile swabs were repeated 4 days
after placement of a Fresh Air unit.
One of the things I love
about our technology is that bad viruses and other
pathogens can evolve against certain antibiotic and
antiviral medicines, but they cannot evolve against
oxidation.
Show the Kansas
State graphs to close. Show photos of a before and
after culture dish. I might give some additional
technical information. I give them the ten fun
experiments. We've done the onion and ammonia test,
but here are some others. I always point out that
they can sanitize all of the dead skin, dead dust
mites and dust mite feces in their bedding in the
AWAY mode for four to six hours.
In a book by Dr. Alan Somersall a statistic is
presented. He writes that three out of four
asthmatics die between 2:00 o'clock and 4:00 o'clock
in the morning and it's because of breathing dust
mite feces and bacteria that are imbedded in the
pillows and bedding. The worst part of most people's
day is first thing in the morning after getting up.
Sinuses are stuffy or clogged and eyes have that
nasty crust that forms magically in the middle of
the night. Not only is this greatly reduced or
eliminated after a bed sanitization, but
snoring usually stops and a better and longer night's
sleep is the result.
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Fresh Air
by EcoQuest...a portable,
active, advanced air purification technology.
by Scott Redfield
In the
Normal
setting you have Radio Wave Ionization, Needle Point
Ionization, and Radiant Catalytic Ionization. These
technologies charge the particles in the air in a 3,000
square foot area and cause them to "fall out" of the
breathing space up to
250 times faster than normal gravity.**
**From the University of Cincinnati study: "Particle
Removal from Air. Figure 2, shows the evolution of the
concentration and particle size distribution of NaCl aerosol
when the air purifier operated in the large test chamber. As
seen from this example, the aerosol concentration of 0.1
μm particles decreased by a factor of 28 in 1 hour and by a
factor of about 250 in 2 hours; the corresponding decreases
for 1 μm particles were approximately 10- and 50-fold. When
testing with smoke particles, the aerosol concentration
decreased even more rapidly. The above levels of the aerosol
concentration reduction are considerably greater than those
predicted by either tranquil or stirred natural decay models
(32). This result was obtained when both the air ion emitter
and the RCI cell operated in the unit. Interestingly,
statistically the same particle reduction effect (p > 0.05)
was observed when the RCI cell was turned off and only the
ion emitter operated. The latter finding provides the
evidence that the particle removal was achieved as a result
of unipolar ion emission but not due to photocatalytic
reactions."
To draw a parallel, snowflakes
float and snowballs crash. A smoke particle, at .01
microns, takes 408 days to fall a distance of eight feet and
is in your breathing space for four to five months! Remember
that every time you inhale a breath of indoor air (about
one liter) it
contains 70,000 particles composed of dead skin, dust, dust
mites, dust mite feces, viruses, bacteria, mold spores,
pollen, carcinogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs),
smoke and particulate. Less than one tenth of one percent of
these particles are visible. Consider that you do this 15 -
16 times per minute every minute of every hour of every day.
That is over 20,000 times per day or 1,400,000,000 particles
per day! If you don't have an efficient, active advanced air
purification system, you and your family become the air
purification system.
At the same time that we are
dropping particulate out of the air 60 feet in all
directions, we are sending out an invisible plasma of
friendly oxidizers which are spread through the house much
like smoke that is coming off of a burning frying pan. With
the assistance of air currents, ceiling fans and HVAC
systems, it literally finds its way into every nook and
cranny in the house. The technology takes oxygen and water
vapor ( through
the use of a UVX light that activates our honeycomb
hydrophilic catalyst)
and breaks the oxygen (O2)
and water vapor (H2O)
into ozone (O3),
activated oxygen (O2
minus an electron), hydroxyl radicals (OH), vaporous
hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)
and super hydroxides (O2H).
These five oxidizers have a few things in common. They all
occur naturally as oxygen and water vapor. They are all
combinations of oxygen and hydrogen molecules. And all are
very unstable. As these invisible oxidizers go out, they
bump into mold, viruses, bacteria and other pollutants. They
oxidize these pollutants much like fire reduces a log into a
little bit of ash, and the pollutants revert back to water
vapor and oxygen, a very natural process.
These five oxidizers go out like little PacMen. They do
their cleaning actively throughout the entire house.
They not only clean the air, they clean every square inch of
surface in the house. The flush handles on toilets,
sinks, showers, the door knobs, the countertops, the floors,
literally every surface in the house, 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week. (Remember:
a fork, a spoon, a glass all have surfaces and are treated!)
This process regulates
indoor ozone levels as well by consuming ozone in the
manufacture of vaporous hydrogen peroxide. As you know, the
number of ozone generators in our indoor environment at
home, school, and work, is at an all time high and will
continue to increase in the foreseeable future. They include
computers, copiers, microwave ovens, refrigerators, ceiling
fans, pencil sharpeners, blenders, food processors, TVs,
HVAC equipment, virtually anything electric.
This ozone reduction is very easy
to document. I did concurrent ozone testing outside and
inside my house where we have had this technology in place
since January 2006. On September 15, 2007, between 12:00
noon and 1:00 PM (a
sunny day in the high 80s) the
level of ozone outside was 50 parts per billion vs 10 parts
per billion inside. This is a simplified but accurate
overview of what happens in the
Normal
Setting.
This particular model also has a
Purifier
mode,
which gives the homeowner the option of adding incremental
amounts of coronal discharge ozone to customize its
performance to the unique load and conditions of any
particular indoor environment. The thirteen settings go from
0 to 3,000 feet. In general we recommend starting low and
finding a comfortable level, much like one does with the
volume of a surround sound system. If it smells too strong
turn it down.
Finally, the
AWAY
mode which is sometimes referred to as the
Sanitize
mode. Selecting this option draws the maximum amount of coronal
discharge ozone from the unit. The AWAY
level is 125% of the highest of the
Purifier
settings. I sometimes refer to this as "the shock the pool"
mode. Just as you would stay out of the water while shocking
a
pool, you want to stay out of the immediate indoor area when
you have the Fresh Air unit in the
AWAY
mode.
This option is highly effective on areas of
special challenge: Walk-in closets, cars, garages and areas
with tobacco smoke or mildew odors. My favorite use of this
mode is to sanitize bedding to eliminate dead skin and dust
mite feces. I strip the bed, open the doors to walk-in
closets and bathrooms, put the unit on the
AWAY
mode for 6 - 8 hours and close the door to the master
bedroom. It works! I no longer wake up stuffy or clogged or
with that eye crust that magically appears in the middle of
the night. Another bonus. I used to snore like a chainsaw (EcoQuest
does not make this claim and experience has shown that not
everyone realizes this benefit).
Not any longer. I now sleep through the night without the
benefit of the knees and elbows that were always trying to
get me to roll over. Best of all, I have a happy, cheerful,
well-rested wife. As they say in the MasterCard commercial:
Priceless.
Anytime the Fresh Air by EcoQuest
unit is on (we
recommend 24/7),
the homeowner gets all the benefits of the
Normal
mode. The use of the other modes is optional and simply
augments the
Normal
setting.
One other huge point
about EcoQuest technology; and this has to do with
Nosocomial Infections (occurring
in hospitals),
MRSA and so called Super
Bugs. One thing I love about this technology is that bad
viruses and other pathogens can and do evolve
against antibiotics and antiviral medicines (and
are doing so at an alarming rate),
but they cannot evolve against oxidation any more than they
can evolve against fire.
I hope this helps clarify some of
the technology questions that come up. We have a
comprehensive line of specialized residential, commercial
and industrial equipment available that can accomplish
amazing results with respect to any Indoor Air or Surface
Quality issues.
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