Comments on: 4 Ventilation Quotes That Will Rock Your IAQ World

By: Paul Raymer

Paul Raymer — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 16:57:01 +0000

"Air is like crooked
"Air is like crooked rivers, crooked people, teenagers, and cheap labor. It always seeks the path of least resistance." John Tooley

"One cfm in equals one cfm out."

By: Richard Beyer

Richard Beyer — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 03:38:40 +0000

I think this one is more
I think this one is more fitting with today's building age. "If there is a pile of manure in a space, do not try to remove the odor by ventilation.
Remove the pile of manure."

~Max von Pettenkofer, 1858

By: Jim Gunshinan

Jim Gunshinan — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 21:57:02 +0000

“Most homeowners would
“Most homeowners would object to dedicating a room in their house to a cow. Yet the majority of houses in this country are constructed with a room dedicated to shelter a far more smelly and deadly beast: the family car.” —Paul Raymer

See more at: http://www.homeenergy.org/show/article/nav/indoorairquality/id/27#sthash.XSNu0ZMM.dpuf

By: David Eakin

David Eakin — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 21:53:39 +0000

Looks like the consensus of
Looks like the consensus of your sources is to wear high-performance clothing layers (like merino wool underwear – best natural high-performance fabric available today) even in Summer – and live in a highly-ventilated structure (w/o much regard to conservation of heat). Assist the body’s ability to regulate core temperatures at a micro/skin level versus a room/house level. Interestingly, this is the same recommendation of most current outdoor sports participants (hiking/camping/bicyclists/motorcyclists).

By: Dale Sherman

Dale Sherman — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:26:06 +0000

"Those who think
"Those who think ventilation standards can be simply applied to non-standard housing stock are suffering from a lack of ventilation."
- Dale Sherman

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:16:57 +0000

Nice Allison. <
Nice Allison.

I had to look up Cartesian thinking. Not sure I agree with Rawi that it's to be avoided:

"Cartesianism is the name given to the philosophical doctrine (or school) of René Descartes. Descartes is often regarded as the first thinker to emphasize the use of reason to develop the natural sciences.[1] For him the philosophy was a thinking system that embodied all knowledge, and expressed it in this way:[2]

Cartesians view the mind as being wholly separate from the corporeal body. Sensation and the perception of reality are thought to be the source of untruth and illusions, with the only reliable truths to be had in the existence of a metaphysical mind. Such a mind can perhaps interact with a physical body, but it does not exist in the body, nor even in the same physical plane as the body."

By: Stephen Davis

Stephen Davis — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:05:56 +0000

"There
"There is no subject directly connected with life on which there is so large an amount of popular ignorance as ventilation." from "The Architecture of Country Houses" by Andrew Jackson Downing - 1859.

By: Darrel Tenter

Darrel Tenter — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:49:55 +0000
"Why do we have to make
"Why do we have to make ventilation calculations so freaking complicated?"
— Darrel Tenter

By: Kevin Dickson

Kevin Dickson — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:43:53 +0000
Joe Lstiburek's advice: "
Joe Lstiburek's advice: "Dilution is not the solution to the indoor pollution."