Yes, they decided it was not feasible to gas the entire Hart Senate Office Building. Glad I'm not one of the people who has to go back to work there.
Here's something interesting...
Company Claims To Make Anthrax Sucking Machine
dailynews.yahoo.com
Friday November 09 02:22 AM EST
With fears of anthrax contamination growing around the country, more and more companies are trying to find ways to keep mailroom workers safe.
Now a Sacramento company has developed a machine that they claim will literally suck anthrax out of the mail.
"Basically what we have is a vacuum cleaner with a highly efficient polarized media filter and an ultraviolet light that goes, passes by what it captures, and inactivates the bacteria or whatever we're trying to inactivate, which may be contained in the mail," L&H AIRCO engineer Frank Wegener said.
With the push of button, the machine, called Firstline, will pull any pathogen possibly contained in the mail away from mailroom workers, just like it does with the smoke from this cigarette.
"We are not creating anything new here. We increase the velocity around the mail. So there is negative pressure pulling the air from you, the worker, around the mail and into a filter that is highly efficient on small micron particles and bacteria. Then we have an ultraviolet light that goes by and kills and inactivates the bacteria," Wegener said.
The machine was developed in Northern California. And for $6,400, they said that it would help pull any fears of possible contamination out of the hands of those responsible for sorting mail.
"The spores are influenced by airflow; as such, spores don't have wings. They can't fly around. They are influenced by airflow. Therefore, if we capture them in the airflow going through the holes in the table, they will be captured in the filter and killed by the lights," Wegener said. |
