So it's just a connected humidity and temperature sensor...?
To battle moldy barracks, Fort Stewart soldiers built their own mold detectors
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#42So the solution was to install internet-connected IoT devices into all the barracks? What could go wrong?
If these are really just temperature and hydrogen sensors, then not that much can actually go wrong. Also, internet connection is not required for this to work. According to the linked press release, it is only connected to WiFi.
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#43> The problem of mold in barracks flared into the news again last week with a Government Accountability Office report that found barracks at 10 installations posed “serious health and safety risks,” with black mold infestations, broken doors and locks and non-military people sleeping in the barracks. In some cases, troops were even left to clean up “biological waste” left by their peers who committed suicide. Maybe t…
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Re: To battle moldy barracks, Fort Stewart soldiers built their own mold detectors
#44You can ozonate (use an ozone generator) and drivenout all sorts of undeaireables: rodents, bedbugs, virus particles. Every home should have one. And a reverse osmosis water filter. But nm me.
Hasn't the epa said that it doesn't make a difference[0] and can be create ozone levels higher than the current health standard? 0: https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/ozone-generators-...
It depends. It's not a silver bullet, but sometimes ozonating a little smelly house does wonders (I've tried and it helped immensely for a smell which I couldn't get rid of). If you don't remove the reason why mold started, it will return. As for health standard - you need to ozonate when no one is around and then refresh the air. Breathing in ozone will destroy your lungs. If you need to ozonate more than twice a year, something's wrong and you need to alleviate primary reason for mold first.
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#45> The MCAT is a 3D-printed device that uses remote sensors to monitor temperature and humidity levels within barracks to identify conditions that lead to mold.
This isn’t a mold detector, but rather a predictive system to detect likelihood of mold. It would be really cool if it was actually a mold sensor or one of those neuromorphic solutions like Intel Loihi which could maybe detect mold directly.
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#46> The problem of mold in barracks flared into the news again last week with a Government Accountability Office report that found barracks at 10 installations posed “serious health and safety risks,” with black mold infestations, broken doors and locks and non-military people sleeping in the barracks. In some cases, troops were even left to clean up “biological waste” left by their peers who committed suicide. Maybe t…
>Maybe that last one is worth investment as well. Not just having an outside party clean it up, but prevention? The military has two readily available levers: money and mandated training. Only the latter is applicable, so we spend hours each year sitting in training full of trigger warnings and trying to destigmatize Discussion about suicide. Young men have a fairly high rate of completed suicide, and removing them f…
How is money not applicable? Money can be used to pay for training, interventions, research, etc. 400k would be much better used here than on a custom humidity sensor.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Maybe that last one is worth investment as well. Not just having an outside party clean it up, but prevention? The military has two readily available levers: money and mandated training. Only the latter is applicable, so we spend hours each year sitting in training full of trigger warnings and trying to destigmatize Discussion about suicide. Young men have a fairly high rate of completed suicide, and removing them f…
How is money not applicable? Money can be used to pay for training, interventions, research, etc. 400k would be much better used here than on a custom humidity sensor.
First, you are wrong to say that 400k would be better spent on more suicide prevention than on humidity sensors (no matter how expensively implemented, like here.) By all accounts, that's the only money being spent on humidity sensing; with suicide prevention you're very far down the curve of diminishing returns.
Do you have any examples of suicide training or intervention services that need more funding? Are the 24 hour hotlines over-utilized? Do you propose to move the needle by hiring some consultants for flashier training powerpoints? As to the research part, I'm a little curious which aspects of the DoD's suicide research you think need to be enhanced. For my part, I'd like to see base rate data alongside demographic and other statistics in the annual report.
Re: To battle moldy barracks, Fort Stewart soldiers built their own mold detectors
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hasn't the epa said that it doesn't make a difference[0] and can be create ozone levels higher than the current health standard? 0: https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/ozone-generators-...
It depends. It's not a silver bullet, but sometimes ozonating a little smelly house does wonders (I've tried and it helped immensely for a smell which I couldn't get rid of). If you don't remove the reason why mold started, it will return. As for health standard - you need to ozonate when no one is around and then refresh the air. Breathing in ozone will destroy your lungs. If you need to ozonate more than twice a ye…
OK, so it kills the mold? I was under the impression from some videos that it didn't do much. So I assume it's dying because ozone is actually toxic to it?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
The military as an institution has its flaws, sometimes serious ones. And one could make a serious argument that an up-or-out stack-ranked promotion system is toxic, inefficient, and ineffective at promoting true talent. But the US military has also not been "losing wars for 70+ years," and the overall tone of this post screams "disgruntled junior enlisted who thinks they have all the answers." It's something I'd fra…
Spoken like an officer indeed (inferring here, could be wrong). 1. Ignores the core subject of the post and the GP's response claiming it is indicative of continued failure of leadership. 2. Generically tries to seem like there is some level of agreement without being concrete in admitting problems in any way. 3. Tries to defend Wilsonionism foreign policy (a root cause evil) by ad-homineming GP as a "disgruntled jun…
You just saved me a ton of retort'ing, TYFYS!
Re: To battle moldy barracks, Fort Stewart soldiers built their own mold detectors
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
It depends. It's not a silver bullet, but sometimes ozonating a little smelly house does wonders (I've tried and it helped immensely for a smell which I couldn't get rid of). If you don't remove the reason why mold started, it will return. As for health standard - you need to ozonate when no one is around and then refresh the air. Breathing in ozone will destroy your lungs. If you need to ozonate more than twice a ye…
OK, so it kills the mold? I was under the impression from some videos that it didn't do much. So I assume it's dying because ozone is actually toxic to it?
It does kill mold pretty effectively at larger concentrations, but if you have a lot and thick layers of mold, some small amount can survive and starts regrowing back in days if you still have wet conditions (and uses that thick film of dead mold as fertilizer). Using ozone is common to de-mold car air conditioners, but if you have too much, you also need mechanical scrubbing to have lasting effect. Best way - dry, then remove mechanically as much as you can and then ozonate.