A candle produces roughly the same amount of energy as a resting human
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Re: A candle produces roughly the same amount of energy as a resting human
#2Text for those who don't do the bird site:
A candle produces roughly the same amount of energy as a resting human — 80 to 100 watts, also consuming about the same amount of oxygen and producing the same amount of CO2. In an enclosed area, adding candles is about like adding people from an air quality standpoint.
Re: A candle produces roughly the same amount of energy as a resting human
#3People concern for "air quality" lately has me wondering how in the world humanity survived to this point, in utter ignorance of the horrid damage everything they could smell was doing to them.
Perhaps we should be encased in sterile bubbles at birth, with all inputs filtered for purity and consistency. Surely that would be the best way to avoid all the dire consequences of the pollutants surrounding us.
Re: A candle produces roughly the same amount of energy as a resting human
#4Text for those who don't do the bird site: A candle produces roughly the same amount of energy as a resting human — 80 to 100 watts, also consuming about the same amount of oxygen and producing the same amount of CO2. In an enclosed area, adding candles is about like adding people from an air quality standpoint.
except that candles don't just produce CO2, they produce soot and many other molecules which have been clearly associated with negative health outcomes.
Re: A candle produces roughly the same amount of energy as a resting human
#5Text for those who don't do the bird site: A candle produces roughly the same amount of energy as a resting human — 80 to 100 watts, also consuming about the same amount of oxygen and producing the same amount of CO2. In an enclosed area, adding candles is about like adding people from an air quality standpoint.
except that candles don't just produce CO2, they produce soot and many other molecules which have been clearly associated with negative health outcomes.
they produce soot
As my bathroom walls can attest to. It took a long time to clean that up. I don't use candles for scent any more. Now I just keep them as one of many sources of emergency light and heat.
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Re: A candle produces roughly the same amount of energy as a resting human
#7People concern for "air quality" lately has me wondering how in the world humanity survived to this point, in utter ignorance of the horrid damage everything they could smell was doing to them. Perhaps we should be encased in sterile bubbles at birth, with all inputs filtered for purity and consistency. Surely that would be the best way to avoid all the dire consequences of the pollutants surrounding us.
Well, I wouldn’t say it’s a recent concern. Nixon started the EPA in 1970.
Historically, there have been issues with coal and air quality.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London
Now that we have 8 billion people on the planet at once, even a small human footprint adds up.
Re: A candle produces roughly the same amount of energy as a resting human
#8People concern for "air quality" lately has me wondering how in the world humanity survived to this point, in utter ignorance of the horrid damage everything they could smell was doing to them. Perhaps we should be encased in sterile bubbles at birth, with all inputs filtered for purity and consistency. Surely that would be the best way to avoid all the dire consequences of the pollutants surrounding us.
Sterile bubbles?? Made of what, plastic? But what of the microplastics?
I upvoted your comment because I, too, am tired of the constant doom and gloom rhetoric. It turns out that practically anything and everything we are exposed to as we live our lives can have negative effects on us.
I'm gonna keep using scented candles, and if they want to be the death of me, well, they will just have to get in line behind basically everything else on this planet.
Re: A candle produces roughly the same amount of energy as a resting human
#9People concern for "air quality" lately has me wondering how in the world humanity survived to this point, in utter ignorance of the horrid damage everything they could smell was doing to them. Perhaps we should be encased in sterile bubbles at birth, with all inputs filtered for purity and consistency. Surely that would be the best way to avoid all the dire consequences of the pollutants surrounding us.
> The combined effects of ambient air pollution and household air pollution is associated with 7 million premature deaths annually
Technology has improved this in areas that adopt it.
Re: A candle produces roughly the same amount of energy as a resting human
#10People concern for "air quality" lately has me wondering how in the world humanity survived to this point, in utter ignorance of the horrid damage everything they could smell was doing to them. Perhaps we should be encased in sterile bubbles at birth, with all inputs filtered for purity and consistency. Surely that would be the best way to avoid all the dire consequences of the pollutants surrounding us.
h2odragon in 1890:
People concern for "Germs" lately has me wondering how in the world humanity survived to this point, in utter ignorance of the horrid damage everything they could touch was doing to them.
Perhaps we should wash our hands with soap, with all inputs filtered for purity and consistency. Surely that would be the best way to avoid all the dire consequences of the pollutants surrounding us.