subject: Honeywell Electronic Air Cleaner - Help Or Hype [print this page] The world has become health crazyThe world has become health crazy. There is no getting around it, we are turning towards healthier whole grain cereals and breads, we are exercising more, and we're cleaning our homes like fanatical lunatics. Included in this cleaning craze is the obsession with cleaning our air. We have got air purifiers in just about every room. This leads to just one question:
Does it do any good?
To start with, acquiring an air purifier for your house can be confusing as anything. With all the different brands to select from and different types of air purification systems, it is almost impossible to know which one is any good, if any of them are.
Then, obviously there is the burning query, "Do we really require an air purifier anyway?". Is the air in our homes genuinely that awful? Haven't we been breathing this same air long before there ever were air purification systems? What's changed?
All of these questions are enough to give us a headache, if not outright drive us crazy. Certainly, let's deal with one question that we at last can answer.
While it is correct that we have been breathing the same air for thousands of years, we truly haven't. With the industrial revolution and all of the garbage that is sent into our air from factories, the truth is, the air is not as clean as it was in the past. All you have to perform is take a drive down to the factory district in Trenton, NJ and take a whiff. There will be without doubt in your mind that the air down there is dirty.
But the issue goes much deeper than that. If you're wondering why scientists are so concerned about plants, it's simply because they give off the one thing we need to breathe, oxygen. They take in carbon dioxide to do this. So if the plants die, we die. It is that simple. The plants really are a true air purification system. Still, people feel they need electronic air purification systems. Why? How do they function and what good are they, if any at all?
In fact, there are many types of systems and each one functions in different ways. The main kinds of systems are HEPA Filter System, which draw the air through the filter and clean it; Ozone Air Purifiers, which function by generating much more ozone molecules in the air; Ionic Air Cleaners, which work by negatively charging the air particles in the room; Electrostatic Precipitators, which function by utilizing positive and negative charges to collect particles; and Electrostatic Filters which function by creating a static charge which attracts and collects particles in the air.
