CO alarm standards – Know when you are protected
“Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.”
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973, bio link)
These following links may be of some use to you:
The World Clock - Time Zones by timeanddate.com
Google Maps-
Earthquake Map - USGS
American Red Cross - disaster relief
Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution - U.S. EPA
Heart rescue using an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
Current Data for Atmospheric CO2
Carbon Monoxide: a Deadly Menace - Federal Aviation Administration
Carbon monoxide toxicity- Emergency Medicine Ireland
Carbon Monoxide Survivor- Views from those who have been poisoned.
"Burn slowly the candle of life" from - Candle of Life - listen to Moody Blues
Picture a small, lit candle on a flat surface. Observe the flame. The small candle can convert its latent fuel into a gaseous state with the application of another temporarily placed flame onto a transmitting wick. This fire requires three components to exist: fuel, air and heat. The fire will cease to be when one or all of the fuel, air, or heat is removed.
Visualize a clear jar or bowl placed over the small, lit candle. Observe the flame. The time of the observable struggle by the flame as available oxygen diminishes is dependent upon the volume inside the covering. The combustion gasses are replacing the space once occupied by air with oxygen, and there are consequences.
In time and in all cases, the flame will struggle, weaken, shrink and cause the wick surface to smolder. The smaller fire is less efficient in converting the fuel to gas with less available oxygen. The wick becomes exposed to the heat from the flame and begins to smolder. There is now not enough heat for the wick material to burn completely. Carbon monoxide is produced before smoldering occurs and before the flame is completely out; witness incomplete combustion.
Small fires used inside require safe practices. Fires and people need air. Not all fires are contained well enough to prevent the breathing in of combustion gasses, like many gas & hard fuel cooking systems. Exposure to carbon monoxide is quite a common occurrence. Some combustion systems break, malfunction or perhaps are misused and CO is generated and dispersed.
A low level carbon monoxide testing or alarming device can alert you to the presence of the poison. If you are alerted at a low level, you have the ability to get out safely and to observe your surroundings or begin to get an idea as to where the source of CO may be. Knowledge of its presence will trigger action.
Can we visualize the earth inside a round jar in space? The atmosphere inside the round jar sustains oxygen generation and life and fire in a natural, take it as it comes kind of existence. If it requires oxygen, you will find it on earth. Aerobic organisms thrive, including the ancestors of mankind who taught us to fear fire, then defy and conquer it. But now there are so many of us lighting fires. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
CO and Air
Quality News Links
Closed Windows in Hospital Rooms May Raise Infection Risk U.S. News & World Report
British researchers used carbon dioxide as a tracer gas to simulate how airborne infections spread in a traditional hospital ward, which typically includes two rows of up to 30 beds. The carbon dioxide represented potentially infectious exhaled breath ...
Carbon Pollution: If We Don't Change Our Direction, We'll End Up Where We're ...
ThinkProgress
Of course, carbon dioxide concentrations are not the only determinant of global surface temperatures, so the concentrations graph won't exactly match Romm's temperature graph, but the fact that concentrations didn't change much over 10,000 years is ...
Do the Earth a big service by doing little things at home
Pocono Record
Trees also filter pollutants from water, provide oxygen, remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and provide habitat. 2. Rain gardens collect and soak up water from downspouts. Rain barrels help to save groundwater resources, utilize higher quality ...
Earth Day Lesson: Environment is not Climate
American Thinker
By the mid-20th century incidents of major pollution were becoming too frequent, and some tragedies occurred (example: in London England in 1952, thousands died from air fouled by burning soft, high-sulfur coal). A new word, smog, entered the ...
Who is responsible for the air you breathe? Take control inside your homes.
The lowest U.L. 2034 & CSA 6.19 carbon monoxide alarm test point is:
70 PPM to 149 PPM – resist one hour, must alarm before 4 hours
Please read the alarm information on the package and in the instructions.
Increased education, awareness can prevent carbon monoxide poisoning
Minnesota Department of Commerce
SAINT PAUL, MN – Each year about 50,000 people visit emergency rooms in the United States for CO poisoning, and more than 500 die each year from this silent, odorless, colorless gas. As part of Winter Hazard Awareness Week (November 5-9), the Minnesota Department of Commerce warns Minnesotans of the dangers of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning and to take steps to avoid this “silent killer.”
Carbon monoxide kills, founder sends warning
Carbonmonoxidekills.com
Carbon Monoxide Information Website ... Carbon Monoxide Useful Links · Contact ... Get the Top ten carbon monoxide safety tips sent to your inbox:
· Please take CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY CARE during all holiday and everyday activities.
Consider low level protection for carbon monoxide and smoldering fire detection problems; don't leave anyone behind.
National Conference of State Legislatures
Carbon Monoxide Detectors State Statutes
Twenty-seven U.S. states have statutes that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings. Updated Nov. 2011
Alaska | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts| Michigan | Minnesota | Montana | New Jersey | New Hampshire | New York | North Carolina | Oregon | Rhode Island | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin | West Virginia
The following companies are acknowledged for their continued support of carbon monoxide safety education and this daily news blog. They may just have what you are looking for.
Fieldpiece Instruments
The Energy Conservatory
IntelliTec Colleges
CO Experts CO-Experts Model 2014 Brochure
Masimo (See the non-invasive RAD-57)
Mahugh Fire & Safety
ESCO Institute
TPI - Test Products International
Note this distraction from carbon monoxide poisoning:
Bald Eagle Camera Alcoa Bald Eagle Camera, Davenport, Iowa.
NOTE: Camera is temporarily unable to transmit live images. A new camera from a distant, non-disruptive location is being set up.
A friend of mine notified me that the pair of bald eagles has returned to their nest along the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa. The Alcoa Company has their web cam up and running and viewing of the nest is possible during daylight hours, Central Standard Time, US. The Alcoa Eagle website gives a good history of the pair and the company’s involvement with them. If you haven’t viewed this site through the hatching and growth of the eaglets, I think you may find it to be quite a live sight to see when you may have those periodic spare moments. This link will be posted on this site for those people who may wish to capture the link and watch the cycle of life of this nesting pair.
What does this have to do with carbon monoxide safety?
It is just a live web cam, perhaps a distraction from the headlines of death and injury. Please become aware of the air you breathe. Measurement is education. Measure your air accurately when measuring carbon monoxide. Bob Dwyer, CSME Carbon Monoxide Safety
