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Re:Air Quality Monitors Compared: AirGradient One vs. Airthings by scire on Sunday August 18, 2024 @08:46AM (#41282057)
Why not measure something like CO2 and use that as a proxy?

The logic being that whenever you bring in fresh air, you decrease radon concentration.

And a high CO2 level means you need to bring in fresh air anyway, and you incidentally also reduce radon concentration.

I could be way off here though, happy to learn more on the topic as I don’t have experience with (dealing with) radon.

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Re:Air Quality Monitors Compared: AirGradient One vs. Airthings by daft_pink on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @10:04AM (#41310417)
Because Radon actually causes cancer and ventilation is expensive. I’ve read many articles about people going nuts trying to manage CO2, but I think it’s useful to know if I’m being exposed to something that would actually result in early death as I’m more likely to take immediate action on that.
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