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6 Ways to Decrease your Winter Heating Bills

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1. Set the Thermostat Properly
The most economical operation of your system comes from setting the thermostat properly. Set the thermostat at the lowest winter setting at which you are comfortable. Typical settings are 68 degrees for winter heating. When heating, your operating costs increase 3% to 8% for each degree your thermostat is raised.

2. Tune-Up Heating System Annually
Energy costs have increased up to 60% or more this year. One way you can minimize this increased expense is by having annual service done to your heating system. Studies show that homeowners having annual service to their systems spend an average of $30 less each month because of increased efficiency. Lack of regular maintenance is also the #1 cause of system breakdowns and costly repairs.

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Ozone Vs. Others

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Nine out of ten diseases, including the common cold and the flu, are caused by water or airborne bacteria and viruses. When comparing disinfectants one should keep in mind that there are very few bad chemical solutions for killing micro-organisms.
Nearly all biocides will disinfect nearly any water if the right dosage and reaction time are applied. The most important future issue of disinfectants will be how environmentally friendly the antimicrobial agent will be:

What disinfectant by-products will be formed and how efficiently, that is how quickly can the disinfectant applied achieve a sufficient log reduction of bacteria, viruses and fungi?

Ozone (O3) is poisonous and can kill bacteria and fungi as well as cause changes in molecular/chemical structures to eliminate odors caused by these bacteria. Ozone kills microorganisms with a process known as “cellular lysis”. In the oxidation process, ozone ruptures the cellular membrane of microorganisms and disperses the bacterial cytoplasm into solution, thus making reactivation impossible. This process takes place in about 2 seconds. In water ozone releases extra oxygen molecules so that Hydrogen dioxide (H2O) results in hydrogen peroxide (H2O2).) This causes anything that relies on water, such as bacteria and fungi, to be effected: rubber and plastic can dry out, water exposed long enough becomes hydrogen peroxide, many odorous substances become neutralized and/or it’s causing bacteria/fungi will be sterilized (It can even be used on tear-gas residue).

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Ozone Generators – Residential Swimming Pool and Spa Equipment and Technologies – Water Purification Systems

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If you have been doing some research on Ozone, you have no doubt already read many articles describing its characteristics. Really simple, it is 3 oxygen atoms that were combined through one of several processes. It becomes a very unstable molecule in this state, and is just waiting for a chance to stabilize again by oxidizing something, almost anything actually. 3′s a crowd right and as soon as our O3 molecule meets something, it uses that 3rd atom like a bomb to oxidize whatever it met.

What we want to do with the O3 we produce will play a big part in which process we use to make it. Here, we are concered with water, but Ozone also has many other uses. How we make the Ozone will determine how powerful it is. Then the biggest issue is how we will apply it. You can take the finest Ozone producing equipment available, and render it next to useless if it is not applied right. A few issues to be concerned with are concentration, solubility and contact time. There are the UV style Ozone generators (the bulb/lamp style) which do not use air preparation systems, and Corona Discharge (so called lighting storm style) ones that do. Although sometimes used without air prep. systems, CD style resonators should always use prepared air or oxygen to produce ozone. Humidity in the air will cause the process to create nitric acid which will destroy the generator in a short time. Humid air also produces very little ozone.

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Improve your personal and family life

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The life is changing for everybody – for plants, animals and of course for us, humans. As the life changes, so do the living conditions. The Sun is getting stronger; the water and the air are getting more and more polluted; new dangerous microorganisms start inhabiting our own world, bringing new and unknown threats for us and our children; let’s not forget about the everyday stress which affects anybody, no matter rich or poor.

The reality is like this and we can not deny this change. But what should we do. Should we hide behind thick and big walls? Should we stop going out and having fun? Should we forget the beauty of the life? Sure we won’t. We have one powerful and reliable source to protect and serve to us. It is the science. Only by this means we can relax and keep on and on. Now the science is working not only for the people who deal with it. Now it’s time that it works for the mankind to help us survive in the modern world.

It’s true that we have chlorinated water supply in our homes, but with some home improvement and modern devices we can purify it; the strong sun beams can not go through the filters of the sunglasses; our stiff back and joints can be exercised and relieved by daily short-time activity with newly designed and tested apparatus. There are lots of examples how we can make our personal and family life much easier. There are really contemporary decisions to facilitate it without being afraid that it is dangerous.

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Swimming pool ozone generators – Ozone technology

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Some scientific info

Ozone (O3) is a molecule, consisting of three oxygen atoms. It is an allotrope oxygen that is much less stable than the diatomic O2. The ozone layer in the upper atmosphere filters potentially damaging ultraviolet light from reaching the Earth’s surface. It is present in low concentrations throughout the Earth’s atmosphere. It has many industrial and consumer applications.

Ozone can be used to remove manganese from water, forming a precipitate which can be filtered:

2 Mn2+ + 2 O3 + 4 H2O → 2 MnO (OH) 2 (s) + 2 O2 + 4 H+

Ozone will also turn cyanides to the one thousand times less toxic cyanates:

CN- + O3 → CNO- + O2

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Industrial Use

Mainly the ozone is used in the preparation of pharmaceuticals, synthetic lubricants and other organic compounds. It is also be used to bleach substances and for killing microorganisms in air and water sources. Many drinking water systems kill bacteria with ozone instead of the more common chlorine as it does not form organ chlorine compounds, nor does it remain in the water after treatment. The Safe Drinking Water Act mandate that these systems introduce an amount of chlorine to maintain a minimum of 0.2 ppm residual Free Chlorine in the pipes, based on results of regular testing. Ozone is also a cost-effective method of treating water, where there is electric power since it is produced on demand and does not require transportation and storage of hazardous chemicals. Once it has decayed, it leaves no taste or odor in drinking water. Other important applications of ozone:

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