Ecosystems
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What Are the Differences Between Fast-Light and Regular Charcoal Briquettes?
Discover the key differences between fast-light and regular charcoal briquettes. Explore their ignition times, burn duration, and best use cases to enhance your grilling experience.
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Are Air Cleaners Worth the Investment?
Discover whether air cleaners are worth the investment by exploring their benefits, including improved air quality, allergy relief, and reduced indoor pollutants.
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How Do Charcoal Briquettes Compare to Electric Grills in Terms of Flavor?
How do charcoal briquettes compare to electric grills in terms of flavor? Explore the differences in smokiness, heat intensity, and taste profiles for an enhanced grilling experience.
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How Do You Choose the Right Location for Your Smoke Cabin?
Choosing the right location for your smoke cabin involves considering factors like ventilation, proximity to your home, and local regulations. A well-placed smoke cabin enhances airflow, ensures safety, and provides an optimal smoking experience while complying with zoning and building codes.
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Are Charcoal Briquettes Safe for Indoor Grilling?
Explore the safety of using charcoal briquettes for indoor grilling. Learn about potential risks, safety precautions, and best practices to ensure a safe and enjoyable grilling experience at home. Discover how to make indoor grilling with charcoal briquettes safe and effective.
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Activated Carbon Manufacturing Process for Filtration
As activated carbon charcoal is useful for absorbing various toxic liquids, gases, unpleasant odors to water purification, here are the activated carbon charcoal processing processes.
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Activated Media Filters
Water often contains unwanted substances – “dissolved solids”. Dissolved solids are defined as those smaller than 0.5 micron. They cannot be removed by sand filters, dual-media filters or by multi-media filters. Removing them requires the use of membranes or media that are “activated”. There are a variety of activated media, such as wood (soft & hard), coal, coconut shells, peats and others. Each tailored to the removal of one or more specific dissolved substances. They work via adsorption, absorption or ion exchange, and must be replaced regularly. In all, these media can remove more than 200 dissolved substances. Examples of dissolved substances often found in water sources such as ground…
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Urban air is getting so dirty: 7 out of 8 people fail to breathe standard air
Are you one of those urban dwellers? Air quality has been improving over time in many cities. For example, Japan is almost synonymous with clean air. But unfortunately, while some places are getting better, more others are getting worse, especially as a larger percentage of humanity is moving to urban areas every year. Let’s just see the fact: air pollution now kills more people every year than malaria and AIDS combined and that according to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution now the world’s biggest environmental health risk with 7 million deaths per year. The WHO has created database that contains results of ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from…
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Polar bears and their missing homes
What do you think about the picture? Polar bear doing yoga? This is not a picture for fun, but indeed, it’s a heart-breaking one that tells a big story. The seawater surrounding the bear was once a piece of huge iceberg and the homeland for polar bears. But since the recent century, the Earth’s temperature has increased 0.8%, declaring the age of global warming. Humans are the main cause of global warming. We produce excessive CO2 that traps the heat inside the atmosphere. We cause global warming but we’re not the only species that have to bear the consequences. Hotter temperatures melt the ice. Polar bears have evolved for a life…
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Should I use carbon filtration in freshwater aquariums?
Using carbon filtration in freshwater aquariums has become one of the hot trends nowadays. However, it’s at the same time a heated controversy. As a spectator, I want to cleat that carbon use is optional and it’s always a personal choice. I have tanks that use carbon and those that don’t. This article is my experience that provides some details about the use of carbon, which may allow aquarists like you to decide if carbon filtration is worth trying or not. Compared to carbon-zero tanks, I realized that carbon removes dissolved organics and toxins. It does it via two ways, adsorption and catalytic reduction. In general, organic particles are removed…
