Earth Scientist working in Laboratory HVAC to reduce Greenhouse Gases

[Rooner1]

How did you find PF?

Google Search

I'm a basic chemist and sustainability champion trying to use essential principles in ventilation safety to provide optimum ventilation for vapors, gases, and even infectious aerosols (e.g. SARS Co-V). Laboratories have 5x the energy demand per M2 as offices, so conservation there makes a big difference. Scientists need to be advocates for conservation in their workplace--the lab! And you can still do great science! See http://mygreenlab.org; University of Colorado Green Lab program has been going for 10 years!

 

[berkeman]

Welcome to PhysicsForums. It looks like you are doing important work.

 

[Rooner1]

Thanks. It feels like the most important contribution I can make for climate protection. The other contribution is getting the GWP drivers below 1 W/SF worldwide, and talking to our families, policy makers, businesses and faith leaders.

 

[Rooner1]

How do I reach "Conservationguy"?

 

[berkeman]

How do I reach "Conservationguy"?

I used the PF Search feature (upper right of screen) and did not see any users with that username. Have you seen some of their posts here?

Also, in case you haven't seen it yet, we currently have to limit discussions about climate change to just the science, and not the political side. Here is a quote from a "stickie" thread at the top of the Earth Sciences forum, FYI:

Before posting anything, please review the Physics Forums Global Guidelines.

CC/GW threads in this forum are intended for discussion of the scientific content of well-researched models of weather, climatology, and global warming that have been published in peer-reviewed journals and well-established textbooks.

Threads such "Is global warming real" or "Are humans the cause of global warming" are too broad and are subject to being locked. We want to encourage questions about specific research, news and events involved with climate science.

Due to the contentious nature of the subject of climate change, the following cannot be used as source material:

• internet blogs
• unpublished papers
• papers published in a small number of excluded journals (see below)

This forum may not be used to propose new ideas or personal theories. All threads of this nature that are started in this forum will be removed by Mentors.

Threads that discuss anything other than the science of weather, climatology, and global warming may be locked or moved to a more appropriate forum, at the discretion of the Mentors.

Threads on the policy / political aspects of climate change are forbidden.

Articles published in a small number of supposedly peer-reviewed journals are not acceptable in this forum. These journals include:

• Energy and Environment
• Pattern Recognition in Physics

This topic is under probation. It will be banned again if discussion isn't civil and well intentioned.

 

[russ_watters]

Note: technical discussion split to new thread here:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/lab-ventilation-energy-use-and-covid.996575/