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“If far-UV is so great, why isn’t it everywhere?” by Austin Chen


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Crossposting this essay by my friend Gavriel Kleinwaks, who is approximately the world expert in Far UV deployment.

Disclaimer: In the interest of avoiding the problem where a post languishes in drafts forever, I am not attempting to be particularly rigorous, but I’m happy to answer questions to fill in details about how I’ve come to the conclusions I’m writing about. This post is informed by my work experience at 1Day Sooner, but only reflects my personal takes, not the official stance of my organization.

I work on indoor air quality to reduce disease burden and pandemic risk, and far-UV is an extremely promising intervention. One of the questions I get most often is, “If this is so promising, why isn’t it everywhere?” The answer requires a lot of breakdown and I get a lot of follow-up questions as soon as I start to answer, so this post is [...]

The original text contained 10 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:

October 19th, 2024

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XCKg2e39J2iMZKC5K/if-far-uv-is-so-great-why-isn-t-it-everywhere

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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