#carbon monoxide meter

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Recensione: Rivelatore di Monossido di Carbonio Tadeto

Tadeto Rivelatore portatile di Monossido di Carbonio, Ampio Schermo Retroilluminato da 2,4 Pollici con Allarmi Acustici e Visivi, 0-1000PPM, Per la Casa, L’industria, L’auto, il Campeggio e i ViaggiP Il monossido di carbonio è un nemico invisibile che può essere estremamente pericoloso per la nostra salute. Fortunatamente, dispositivi come il Rivelatore Tadeto di Monossido di Carbonio offrono…

[labotronicsscientific]

Carbon monoxide meter

Carbon monoxide meter is a digital pen style meter designed for measurement of carbon monoxide (CO). Large screen display with one-button operation makes it simple to operate and easy to use. The unit is light weight and durable, makes it suitable to detect harmful carbon monoxide.

[labotronics]

Carbon Monoxide meter

A carbon monoxide metre is a type of digital pen metre used to measure carbon monoxide (CO). It is straightforward to use and has a large screen display with a single button for operation. Because the device is robust and lightweight, it can be used to detect dangerous levels of carbon monoxide.

[pixelshiftexe]

I love this website because where else are you going to get recommended a post clearly made by someone having paranoid religious delusions in the middle of a psychotic episode where all the notes are just dunking on them for not knowing their Mexican folkloric creatures.

Do you think maybe that there’s a chance you are REALLY, REALLY behind on current events & the statue is the beast? I mean literally. Like the statue sits there until the apocalypse & then it turns out it’s an actual robot that a consciousness can switch into when they decide it’s the right day. I’m sorry to be scary, but It is. It’s not just a warning. This is really happening, just like all those other signs you see are also there. It’s there because it’s supposed to be hidden in plain sight to then be switched on, just like other things/statues/etc hidden in plain sight. You’ve been warned many, many times, but each time until the end there’s always a chance to change the future. It’s never hopeless, but you have to come to terms with the fact this has been right in front of you for a very long time. Do you want to take it seriously or do you want to ignore it till it’s too late? The decision is always in your hands.

[pathetic-gamer]

me, an hour ago: "fuck, the stove is on! what do we do?" [immediately does all the wrong things]

PSA: What NOT to do when you smell gas

In this situation, we got home to a smell of gas throughout the house and discovered our gas stove was on without a flame. it was only a tiny stream, and everything turned out fine, but here's a brief list of everything we did wrong:

NOTE: this is for if you smell significant amounts of gas, not a blanket list for all possible gas situations. (If you aren't aware, the methane**/natural gas used in houses smells vaguely like sulfer, or rotten eggs - this is an additive, since it has no natural smell. It's a very recognizable smell, once you've smelled it once. It's not the same smell as gasoline.)

1. If your stove has an electrical/spark ignition, do NOT turn it off.

Spark ignitions often spark when turning on *and* off. Spark + Gas = Boom. Boom is bad. Avoid boom.

Instead, turn off the gas at the source, i.e. the physical valve at the meter. There may be a smaller valve near the stove. If you don't know where the shutoff is, the fire department will find it.

2. Do NOT turn on (or off) vents or fans.

In fact, don't flip any electrical switches - that includes lights, plugging in or unplugging appliances, etc. These cause sparks. Spark + Gas = Boom.

Also, don't start your car. obviously.

3. Do NOT open windows

counterintuitive, I know. This is mostly because you want to prioritize your exit, but it's also to keep the fumes from spreading outside, where you should be waiting for the ~professionals~ to come handle it.

4. DO take all people and pets outside.

Do this very first!! (one thing we actually did right - go us!)

This is obviously because you don't want to go boom, but you also don't want to suffocate. Gas is poison!

NOTE: the gas from your stove is probably methane (natural gas); carbon monoxide is what you get when methane burns, which is why your kitchen needs to be well-ventilated and the stove shouldn't be left burning for long periods of time, but the natural gas itself is *also* potentially deadly. Carbon monoxide detectors dont detect natural gas, so that's what the odorous additive is for.

Inhaling natural gas causes nausea, headaches, dizziness, and makes you just generally woozy, and eventually causes you to lose consciousness and potentially suffocate, just like carbon monoxide does. We don't want that.

5. DO call the fire department/emergency line

They'll check for other leaks, shut gas off if needed, then test for air quality and eventually clear your house for reentry. It takes like 1-2 hours for the gas to dissipate, generally.

Yay, you survived! Congrats!!

NOTE: if you find the stove has been left on with a flame, or it's on with no flame but you don't smell gas, then you should be safe to just open windows and turn on vents and fans to air it out.

idk, this was actually pretty scary, especially when we realized how much of our immediate response was wrong and could have turned a dangerous situation into a real disaster.

tl;dr: If you smell gas when you shouldn't be smelling gas, just get all the people and animals outside, shut off the gas line, and call the fire department or gas company. don't fuck around with gas. you're not overreacting, you're taking the proper safety measures.

**CORRECTED FROM ORIGINAL VERSION. Original said propane, but it's very much not propane, it's methane. too much Hank Hill on the brain, clearly.

[apod]

2025 May 15

A Plutonian Landscape Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institute

Explanation: This shadowy landscape of majestic mountains and icy plains stretches toward the horizon on a small, distant world. It was captured from a range of about 18,000 kilometers when New Horizons looked back toward Pluto, 15 minutes after the spacecraft's closest approach on July 14, 2015. The dramatic, low-angle, near-twilight scene follows rugged mountains formally known as Norgay Montes from foreground left, and Hillary Montes along the horizon, giving way to smooth Sputnik Planum at right. Layers of Pluto's tenuous atmosphere are also revealed in the backlit view. With a strangely familiar appearance, the frigid terrain likely includes ices of nitrogen and carbon monoxide with water-ice mountains rising up to 3,500 meters (11,000 feet). That's comparable in height to the majestic mountains of planet Earth. The Plutonian landscape is 380 kilometers (230 miles) across.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250515.html

[river-taxbird]

I really like my CO2 meter and I want to tell you about it!

It's a little gadget that measures the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. Did you know your body at rest burns about 100 grams of food/fat an hour? This means you're constantly breathing out carbon dioxide at a rate of about 100 grams an hour. This can rise by quite a lot of you're exercising, and it's less when you're sleeping. This means if you usually keep your doors and windows closed, as I usually do in winter since I live in a cold climate, it can build up fast. You can even breathe directly on the meter and watch the number rise rapidly.

I've had this meter on my desk for many years. It's basically a clock so you can notice the air quality at a glance and it's always on and doesn't produce light. (Note the black tape over the power LED on the left because my autistic ass can NOT sleep with an LED in the room.) It cost about £90 when it was new so it's not the cheapest thing in the world but it's built to last and it's been worth it. This isn't an ad and I'm not saying go for this brand, it's just a gadget that I think improves my life. It's always a good reminder of when I should open the windows.

I'm not 100% sure how well supported this is, but I've seen it said online that a carbon dioxide level of over 1000ppm can lower a person's cognitive function by about 25%. It can be an issue with classrooms with a lot of people. Normal outdoor levels are about 300-400ppm. Whether you believe that is up to you, but I do think fresh air makes people feel better and this serves as a good reminder to let it in. People like to make carbon monoxide jokes on this website, but sometimes high CO2 can be an issue around his you generally feel. It can also build up faster than you'd think if you have multiple people about and no windows open.

Time to open the window! (Apologies for the photo quality, the reflective LCD is not the easiest thing in the world to photograph without shadows or huge reflections.)

[fishenjoyer1]

"Fish" of the Day

Today's "fish" of the day today is bullwhip kelp!

Bullwhip kelp is a monotypic family, so its scientific name is simply Nereocystis. As a species of kelp, bullwhip kelp is neither a plant nor an animal, but rather is a protist (a protist being any multicellular organism that is not a plant, fungi, or animal) related to and considered a kind of algae. This particular kelp is known by many names, bull kelp, bullwhip kelp, bladderwrack, and edible kelp to name the ones I found. Bullwhip kelp is the most widespread, however this is confusing as the bullwhip kelp is not a part of the Southern bull kelps, which is a whole family of its own found in New Zealand, South America, and Antarctica.  Bullwhip kelp, known primarily for their location along the Pacific coast, stretches from the Aleutian islands of Alaska, down to the Southern most sections of South California. Likely common to many of the readers of this email, it is found washed up on the Oregon, Washington, and California coastlines regularly.

Now, as these posts are mostly focused on fish and other aquatic animals, I will spend a moment focusing on information about kelp itself. As previously mentioned, kelps are protists, belonging to the Laminariales order, which is made up of certain kinds of brown algae. The Laminariales order is found in the Phaeophyceae class, which consists of all brown algae and makes up kelps and some seaweeds. The difference between the two being that kelp is larger and more complex than other seaweed brown algaes, along with requiring more nutrient rich waters and only living in cooler environments. This is opposed to seaweeds which are broad, diverse, and able to stretch into environments kelp cannot. 

Kelps are made up of  structurally complex bodies involving certain plantlike features. A root-ball like structure at the bottom, called a holdfast, acts as a living anchor for the entire organism. The difference between plant roots and the holdfast however, is that it acts as purely anchoring, and does not provide any nutrients to the organism itself. Upward from there is a long and thin section of kelp referred to as a stipe. The stipe of the organism is hollowed out and filled with a series of gases, but the main one is carbon monoxide, making up ten percent of all gases within kelp. These gases are used in the kelp to suspend itself, this gas is held within the rounded pneumatocyst, which some kelp several of. Sprouting from the pneumatocyst are flat sections called blades, these blades are held as close to the surface of the water for photosynthesising, although a 2020 study found that these blades often evolved specific shapes to best increase drag in the water, allowing better interception of light. This is the basics of kelp structure.

Focusing once again on bullwhip kelp, it is known for being some of the larger and faster growing kelp species. Growth occurs in the space between the stipe and the blades of the kelp itself and during the summer growth months there are times where a single stalk of kelp can grow as much as half a meter in a day! They can grow to a maximum length of 36 meters, or 118 feet (stipe and blades), with the blades alone getting 10 meters in length (33 feet) and the possibility to grow 15cm in a day. In bull kelp the pneumatocyst can grow anywhere between 30-64 blades, which is usually high for kelp. Bull kelp is the only kelp species to create spore reproductive packages in the right amount to precisely land at the holdfast of the parent kelp, which drop from the blades once mature.

These kelp are vital to the ecosystems beneath the water, providing homes, and meals for huge numbers of species. Not only that, but their presence keeps large waves from affecting the coastline much harder than it would. This is why it is so concerning that harvest is allowed to happen up to 2 meters on growing kelp, often severing the pneumatocyst and the reproductive spore packages. Other than that, human causes are often bad for kelp forests, as it regularly drives away otters, which are essential for keeping the urchin population in check. If the urchin population becomes uncontrolled, they will consume entire kelp forests over time. This is why we must ensure we remain careful in how we interact with the environment around us, in hopes that we can prevent it from dying out.

That's the bullwhip kelp, everybody. I hope you had a wonderful time reading about it, even if it is a bit out of range from the usual topics, and have a wonderful day!

[thestalwartheart]

Psst do you have any Inception fic recs 👀 I’ve been on the prowl for fics to read/revisit

OH BOY DO I!!!

Most of these are E-rated because I'm just Like That.

the dry sand of daylight by spqr

“I’m going to sue you for workplace sexual harassment,” Arthur tries one night at a bar, without much hope. “Well, it would certainly be an interesting challenge for your barrister,” Eames allows. “Seeing as we have no legal workplace, I’m wanted in half of Europe, and last I checked you’ve got an Interpol red notice out on you. But sure, absolutely – give it a go. Never know unless you try, and all that.” -- [or: Arthur is married to Eames for the better part of a decade. Then he wakes up.]

this just might hurt a little by gunsandbutter

You'll never know what you're missing till you try.

toxic by witling

Eames tackles him from behind, brings him down onto his belly on the carpet, and plants a knee in his back. “What,” he pants, “the hell.” Arthur gets into trouble, and can't remember how he got there. Eames lends a hand.

Our Man in Africa by witling (really anything by witling tbh)

The nice thing about being a shady ex-pat is that you have connections.

Seaweed Song by VIII_XIII

It’s not that it’s not dangerous down there, but at least when you're down there, there are rules to keep you safe. Watch your depth. Check your air. Safety stop: five meters, three minutes, just in case. Don’t taunt the wildlife. Stay with your buddy. And above all else, don’t ever hold your fucking breath. If you follow the rules, you live. On the surface, there are so many more variables. There are so many unforeseen circumstances. Drunk drivers, carbon monoxide leaks, Russian aerospace conglomerates and incompetent coworkers, Arthur standing there on the resort’s dock glaring at you as you climb out of the water. Eames moves to a tropical island. Arthur is afraid of the ocean.

This next one might be your thing or it might not, but I'm throwing it in anyway for the kink fans among us.

Faith in Aberrations by recrudescence

There isn’t much that has Arthur hesitating and faltering like a virgin. Eames privately finds it charming that someone who’s led a life as eventful as Arthur’s can still be so sweetly squeamish about certain things. Inspired by a kink meme prompt: Eames gives Arthur an enema. In addition to the obvious, this contains dirty talk, barebacking, first-time rimming, a bit of an impregnation kink, and inappropriate discussions over dry cleaning.

I have more, but I'll leave it there for now! Have fun ❤️

[seat-safety-switch]

Heated seats. Heated steering wheels. Heated windshields. Heated armrests. It's getting to the point where you can't drive a car anymore without slipping off into soporific bliss, snoozing as you hover silently along the highways, ensconced in the automotive equivalent of an electrified Snuggie®. And I'm all for it.

Because I live in the great unsettled North, I deal with freezing-cold weather effectively at random. Any day between September 1st and July 31st could be blizzard conditions. And that means I'm going to have to scrape a couple inches to a full ass meter of snow directly off the top of my car, which in turn means I'm going to be very cold by the time I get in. Luxury vehicles with "functioning heat" are, therefore, top of my list when it comes time to salvage a heap from the auction floor.

This is one of my secret techniques when buying bad cars. The car with the heated seats costs about the same as the one without heated seats, after both of them have racked up the mileage of several round-trip moon missions. Sometimes less, if you're shopping a rich part of town after having misrepresented yourself as a mutual fund supervisor. Those are the best deals: the seller doesn't really need the money, is afraid of you, and will give you anything you want if you promise to leave.

Of course, if you're not lucky enough to score the high-zoot trim of your particular hyperfixation, there is still hope for warming your hands. Most cars I've purchased also have substantial exhaust leaks, and exhaust is hot. If you pull the carpet up from around the middle of the car, you'll end up with bare metal: a nice hand-warming hibachi. Even if you roll down the windows to protect yourself from breathing so-called carbon so-called monoxide, you'll still end up ahead of the game, with nice, warm, supple hands by the time you arrive at work after having spent four and a half hours stuck in traffic to move eleven kilometers. And that's what luxury is all about.

[mextechin]

[littlepetbee]

OCD Wrapped 2024

you picked the same scab 648 times until it bled

you spent 98 hours rereading emails before sending them

you took 4000+ milligrams of zoloft before bed

you spent 34 hours wondering if the carbon monoxide detector still works

you listened to your friend's favorite song for 3 seconds before turning it off because the rhythm/meter was Wrong and it made your brain hurt

you sorted 965 candies by color to eat them in the right order

you spent 4 minutes psyching yourself up outside each revolving door and called it exposure therapy when you finally walked through

you hoarded 19 pounds of junk mail just in case you might need expired grocery store ads in the future

you spent 227 hours feeling irredeemably evil

you repeated the same thought 84 times to yourself until you perfected it

you checked the locks 17 times daily for a grand total of 5,185 times

you edited that last stat 9 times wondering if people would understand that the math is correct for jan 1 - oct 31 (in a leap year) like spotify wrapped or if they'd think you were a moron who doesn't know how many days are in a year before finally just deciding fuck it and adding this bullet point to cover all the bases

...you spent 309 hours overexplaining your thoughts and actions

Can't wait to see what next year holds <3

[bhawnabloger]

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[ii-thelightseekers]

Wait. Do I need to check my carbon monoxide meter? Is it broken? Did you offer MORE yuri?

:]

[doyoueverwonderwhy]

Welcome to homeownership! 😭

Had the people out to tune up our furnace this morning and that visit ended with "I can't legally leave the premises until I turn off the gas and you sign this thing saying you won't run your furnace".

They (the sellers? Whoever they had service the thing?) had messed with some settings that made it seem like it was running normally but if you adjusted to the settings the machine calls for, the carbon monoxide in the exhaust skyrocketed. Like, errored out the meter at 4000ppm when 10ppm is when you'd start getting headaches from it. 😐

So now we get to try to prove the sellers knew about it, or at least figure out who they had service the machine.