Does a co2 meter work for me

[guduru.karthik]

hi, i have been living side of the road , and i noticed that due to high traffic during the peak hours, my neighborhood is filled with pollution and then it stays for a longtime. the pollution created is causing high health problems like respiratory problems during nights and evenings and i was wondering if their is a way i a=can make some measurements so show and explain the problems to the councilmen. i have looked up the interned and found a extech co2 meter, will this do the job?

 

[telectrix]

or find a quieter road.

 

[plugsandsparks]

Co2 is the good guy, would have thought, CO, soot, hydrocarbons and nitrogen and sulphur compounds are what you are affected by.

 

[guduru.karthik]

BUT excess amount of CO2 causes health risks wiki sourced me with this information and we all seem to have the similar effects if CO2

 

[Andy78]

Have you tried calling the environmental health department ? They will have appropriate equipment to deal with this I would have thought.

 

[Geordie Spark]

hi, i have been living side of the road , and i noticed that due to high traffic during the peak hours, my neighborhood is filled with pollution and then it stays for a longtime. the pollution created is causing high health problems like respiratory problems during nights and evenings and i was wondering if their is a way i a=can make some measurements so show and explain the problems to the councilmen. i have looked up the interned and found a extech co2 meter, will this do the job?

What does Wikki think??

 

[guduru.karthik]

File:Main symptoms of carbon dioxide toxicity.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[guduru.karthik]

please search for co2 in google -> go wiki page-> scroll down till you see a human picture on left side. all this is because i cant post links as im new to this

 

[Guitarist]

Agree with Andy. Whatever readings you personally take will be meaningless to the authorities. You need to get together with your neighbours and ask the environmental health officer to look into it. Unfortunately, there are hundreds of thousands of people living adjacent to busy roads, and I can't really see what you would expect the authorities to actually do, short of banning traffic near your house.

 

[telectrix]

from his OP i asssumed "living by the side of the road" meant he was living on a bench next to the road.

 

[guduru.karthik]

where will a homeless person get his internet access and a device to ask a question in a forum

 

[telectrix]

iphone

 

[guduru.karthik]

even i do agree with andy and you too.. i have tried to contact environmental health officer and looks like the process is taking more time .. that is why we came up with this buying a co2 meter solution .. as they have few of them which automatically load data in to the meter and take be transformed into a computer and get all this info and then go the environmental health officer/ the councilmen.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Have you tried calling the environmental health department ? They will have appropriate equipment to deal with this I would have thought.

That reminds me of a few years ago when Newcastle council parked a mobile air quality monitoring station on Princess Square and were horrified to find very high readings of pollution. Then they noticed they had parked it directly above a lorry parking area .......

 

[guduru.karthik]

lol, that's a funny situation

 

[guduru.karthik]

wow.. that is not possible.. homeless person needs to have a 3 yrs home address proof for get a iphone contract

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so ... can any one choose a best co2 meter for me from this list http://www.airconcern.co.uk/indoor-air-quality-instruments-co2-meters-c-1_132_137.html

 

[Engineer54]

Thank your lucky stars your not living in Bombay or Beijing, you'd have something to complain about then!! ...lol!!
Try complaining to anyone in local government in either of those 2 cities and i know what the answer would be!!

 

[Guitarist]

What would you actually like the council to do, if levels are found to be high?

 

[Geordie Spark]

wow.. that is not possible.. homeless person needs to have a 3 yrs home address proof for get a iphone contract

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so ... can any one choose a best co2 meter for me from this list Carbon dioxide (CO2) Meter

Hey Guduru ............ excuse me asking this, but what country are you from?

 

[Robson689]

What would you actually like the council to do, if levels are found to be high?

Force motorists to turn their engines off and push their cars past the OP's house! What else?!

 

[static zap]

Plants & trees produce CO2 at night,

so local farmers to blame as well !

( air speed /direction ,more likely to be a clue where source of problem )

Air quality,more likely to be issue
(Just the stuff that Kills delicate , expensive sensors !)

 

[R G]

I should think with the weather as it is , pollution would be the least of your worries , it's cold enough to freeze your B...s of out there

 

[dan86]

iphone

other handsets are available

but iPhones are the dogs danglies

 

[dan86]

as for the wifi access- could be stealing it from the house he is living beside...

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Plants & trees produce CO2 at night,

so local farmers to blame as well !

( air speed /direction ,more likely to be a clue where source of problem )

Air quality,more likely to be issue
(Just the stuff that Kills delicate , expensive sensors !)

do they? Just wondered. Thought they absorbed CO2 and photosythesised to produce oxygen. Why would they produce CO2 at night? Because they're pranksters..! Or is there another process going on?

 

[static zap]

Or is there another process going on?

Probably remaining from Photorespiration after overdoing the O2,
and making some nitrate fertilizer instead !
( a House plant myth ?)...Or I'm just talking fertilizer again

 

[PEG]

Photosynthesis reverses at night (remember no plant policy in hospital wards?) Its the same with vampires,during day,they work at transfusion clinic...

 

[GLENNSPARK]

or find a quieter road.

or get a visit from the bogof man...