[Stoves] CO monitoring seeking practical analogues in local testing methods for the 90% of the rest of us

[frank]

Richard and all,
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Richard Stanley wrote:

> Sure you have the meters and the manufactured brands out there in the 
> industrialised nations,  but is it first not impossible to find an 
> local indicator --a plant, an  insect,  common chemicals, selected 
> local biota and / or other naturally occurring indicators of basic 
> levels of CO emissions in the "safe"--"risky"--- "critical" range for 
> human exposure? (the analogues can be developed through local 
> institutional testing and calibration to their instrumentation later on...


Are Fruit flies everywhere?  With a bucket of fermenting Jerusalem 
Artichokes in the lab we were quickly over run with them. Placing a few 
in a clear 500 cc  Solo Plastic cup and injecting in a known amount of 
CO. Report both time and concentration when they die might work. Gas 
pulled from a stream of CO from a tank using a gas syringe and injected 
through the wall of the cup.  We need to see if it kills them at 
concentrations we can use. But I don't see someone sitting and staring 
at the fruit flies all night! Still need a buzzer.

fes

Frank Shields
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