AUSTIN PURE AIR - GENANO
New Agent Training – Section #5
“Austin Air, Our (Wannabe) Competitor, Shows Why Ionizers Are So Ineffective”
(This is their material. They provide the convincing arguments for us.)
Why Ionizers Don't
Work
One consumer guide states:
"Ionics do little to clean the air.
They do a poor job of removing smoke, dust,
and pollen particles from the air.
If you own one, try returning it for a refund!"
KEY QUESTIONS WE’LL ANSWER IN THE MATERIAL AHEAD:
*What's
the difference between an ionizer and an ozone generator?
* What's
*Are
wrong with ion generators?
ozone generators also ion producers?
*What
*Why
is the difference between air cleaning and air purifying?
do ionizers produce that fresh clean smell, and isn't that enough?
*Will
an ionizer help with mold problems and odors?
*Why
are ionizers so popular?
*What
is the ionizer Black Wall Effect?
And…
Isn't ozone smog?
Can UV light kill mold?
What's the difference between an Ionizer
and an Ozone Generator?
(As you’ve guessed by now, the Ozone Generator company—Austin Air--wrote this material.)
Ozone Generators and Ion Generators are similar devices. They both put out
ozone and ions.
Ion Generators have become popular for cleaning air and attempting to remove
odors. But for cleaning air and removing odors as well as killing viruses and
mold, Ozone Generators are many more times as effective.
Ion Generators simply give a negative charge to the air's ions, so that floating
dust particles will cling to a surface in the room—much in the way static
electricity does.
Larger particles of dust floating in the room will stick to the wall, floor, and
furnishings of any room they are in. Ion Generators also put out a very small
amount of ozone as a byproduct of ion generation, but it is not enough to be
helpful.
 Ion Generators can partially clean the air, but not purify it.
On the other hand, Ozone Generators are just that—they generate the gas called
ozone which is extremely useful for purifying the air and removing odors. Ozone
is sometimes called "activated oxygen.”
(It contains three atoms of oxygen, O3, rather than the two atoms we normally
breath.)
How does ozone work?
The life cycle of ozone is: generation, oxidation, return to oxygen.
Ozone is labeled as an "unstable" gas, which means soon after it is generated
the third atom of oxygen wants to break away from the other two. It does this by
oxidation. It finds a microscopic odor-causing particle and destroys it. What is
left is pure oxygen (O2) plus the remnants of the oxidation process by the third
atom: harmless hydrogen and CO2.
Ionizers claim they are "Ozone Free" and are "safer" than
ozone generators.
What that really means is that they can't kill any mold or bacteria.
Some ionizers claim to have special devices that eliminate ozone
(which they mistakenly call “smog”) and turn it into oxygen. But ozone
is NOT smog, and eliminating the ozone actually PREVENTS the smog
from being cleaned from the air.
(Smog is actually toxic hydrocarbons from automobiles.)
What's wrong with ionizers?
There are many problems associated with ionizers. To perform air
cleaning (removing larger particles of dust), you need a very large
amount of ions—more than has been recognized as a safe level.
According to air science, indoor air has 100 to 200 ions per cubic cm,
outdoor fresh air has 200 to 500 ions per cubic cm, and a fresh clean
forest will have 1,500 to 5,000 ions per cubic cm.
 Ion generators typically produce more than 1,000,000
to 10,000,000 per cubic cm. This is simply too much.
(This large amount of ions is needed to push the particles to the walls
and floor.)
 In fact for ionization to be truly effective, ionizers must
generate so many ions that they can cause headaches
 and sore throats.
More ionization, then, is not better.
Fact: Even with this overabundance of ionization there is only limited
temporary air cleaning done and no true air purifying accomplished.
Nothing is being killed by the ions. Nothing is being purified.
In other words ionizers are simply pushing around
the floating dirt to the surfaces in your room!
The problem: the same dust can be kicked right back into the air. The dirt that
does not begin to float again will stick to whatever surface is close. After a few
months walls, floors, appliances, and furniture begin to build up a layer of dirt on
them. If you put an ionizer on a table near a wall, the wall will develop a black
halo of dirt in just a couple of days.
Some ionizers claim to have plates that collect the dirt.
In truth they can only collect less than 5% of the dirt. The other 95% of the dust,
bacteria, and mold spores end up on your walls, floors, and belongings.
Question: How is an ion that is shot across a room and attaches itself
to a dust particle supposed to travel all the way back to a dust
collection plate on an ionizer from 10-20 feet away?
The answer is, it cannot be done. In fact if the ion does travel across the room,
the particle it attaches itself to will adhere to the closest possible positively
charged surface, that being your walls, floor, ceiling or anything else it is close
to. This is not rocket science, it is simple physics.
Even ionizers that draw air through them and collect dust as it is passing by are
not efficient for capturing dust. They are still emitting far into the air in front of
the machine ions that attach themselves to dust particles. If the ion flow or the
airflow of the ionizer is strong the dust will never be able to find its way back to
the ionizer’s collection plate.
The dust will then, of course, attach itself to ANY positively charged surface in
your home.
If the ionizer is weak it will do hardly any good at all at capturing dust particles. If
it has a strong ionic or airflow then the ions will break away from the machine
and cause the dust to be collected on the surfaces of your home.
Either way an ionizer will not eliminate dust.
Many ionizer ads claim that the ions will eliminate dust.
What does that mean?
Where does the dust go? It HAS to go somewhere!
This nonsense that ions will simply "drop the dust out of the air" to be vacuumed
up at a later date is simply not true. Simple physics state that the dust MUST
adhere to the closest positively charged surface, most likely your walls and
furniture.
ALL ionizers will cause the dreaded "black wall effect" where they will turn your
walls black with dust. Air-Zone Ozone Generators will not cause your walls to
turn black like common ionizers will because our machines only produce very
small amounts of ionization.
Six months after you start using an ionizer you will have MORE bacteria
collected in your home than before you started.
The use of ionization only makes a dust problem WORSE!
Realize that all so-called "air cleaning" ionizers do is push around lightweight
particles of dust. They cannot effectively kill odors, nor can they remove large
particles such as pet dander.
For removing larger particles of dust and
dander a HEPA filter is much more
effective than an ionizer. (This is true.)
HEPA filters collect the dust and dander—rather than just push
them around the room as an ionizer does—so that they do not
start floating around again.
The idea is to remove the dust from your home, not
simply move it from here to there.
Air-Zone sells quality, hospital-grade Austin Air HEPA filter
(note again that this is not Austin PURE Air but Austin Air—two
different companies entirely) that are more cost-effective than
store-bought brands.
If dust and odors are present, a combination of an ozone generator and a HEPA
filter is the best method of dealing with the problem…
(…Unless you have a GENANO® Technology Air Purifier!)
A room that has had a previous High Ozone Shock Treatment will smell
much fresher than a room with an ionizer running.
For removing odors only OZONE works the best by killing the offending
organisms. Our ozone generators also produce negative ions of about 10,000 to
30,000 per cubic cm which is more than enough to gain the positive benefits of
negative ionization.
Are ozone generators ion producers as well?
Yes, all of our ozone generators produce negative ions, but not as much as a
standard ionizer does. As we’ve said, most ionizer products output more than
1,000,000 to 10,000,000 per cubic cm. This is way too much. More is not always
better. Too much ionization can cause headaches and sore throats.
Too much ionization electronically glues bacteria, mold spores, and particulate
matter to your walls, floor and ceiling.
According to science, outdoor fresh air has 200 to 500 ions per cubic cm, indoor
air has 100 to 200 per cubic cm, and the forest will have 1,500 to 5,000 ions per
cubic cm.
Our ozone generators produce negative ions of about 10,000 to 30,000 per cubic
cm. Therefore, the amount of negative ions output from our series of products is
good enough for giving indoor air that fresh clean smell, and yet not too much as
to be irritating.
What is the difference between air
“cleaning” and air “purifying”?
Air cleaning means that particles of dust and other dirt are being filtered out of
the air, and are hopefully being collected into a specific filter.
Air Purifying means that dangerous mold spores, bacteria, and viruses are
actually being killed.
Even a high-grade HEPA filter can store and pass micro bacteria through it.
Air Purifying is the only way to ensure a safe environment. Air Purifying can only
be done by the use of ozone. (No longer true since GENANO® Technology
arrived on the scene.) Ion generators simply move particles to other places.
That's NOT air cleaning because the dust remains in the same room.
Why do ionizers produce that
fresh, clean smell?
And isn't that enough?
No, a fresh smell is no substitute for air purifying.
Ionizers also produce a very small amount of ozone which can contribute to a
fresh spring-like smell. The electrically charged air produced from an ionizer can
smell very fresh. The problem is that this is only a temporary fix. As soon as the
ionizer is turned off the effect is essentially over. With an ozone generator, odors
can literally be killed so that when it is turned off the odors are vanished because
they are not simply "covered up" as with an ionizer.
Ozone Generators can also be used to give High-Ozone "Shock Treatments" to
unoccupied areas. These high-ozone treatments are very effective in killing odor
producing organisms. Once the organisms are killed by a high ozone shock
treatment, or a series of shock treatments, the odor will be removed, not just
covered up by the temporary effects of ionization.
A room that has had a high ozone shock treatment for a
few hours the night before
will smell much fresher than a room with an ionizer constantly running!
Even with a very high ion level of 10,000,000 per cubic cm, odors can only be
covered up. Therefore a high-concentration ion treatment will have little or no
effect in permanently removing odors. Those high ion levels can also cause
headaches and sore throats. So long before ionization can have any real effect,
it becomes obnoxious.
 Only OZONE can truly purify the air, remove odors,
and kill many types of bacteria.
(GENANO is far superior to even this.)
Will an ionizer help with mold
problems and odors?
Absolutely not! Ionizers don't kill any organisms, therefore they have no effect
on mold or mold odors. If you smell mold in your home, you have mold.
Mold Medical studies have found that mold & mildew
are the #1 causes of allergic symptoms.
(The Black Mold Stachybotrys found in homes, offices, and schools has been linked to fatal pulmonary disorders.)
If this is all true,
then why are ionizers so popular?
The answer is two-fold:
At first, when a person first smells the odor coming out of an ionizer, they are
very impressed by the fresh spring-like smell. That fresh smell is what sells the
product.
Unfortunately that fresh smell is only temporary, since it lasts only until the
ionizer is turned off. Ions have no ability to kill any organisms, and therefore no
ability to remove odors.
On the other hand, ozone kills the bacteria and mold, so it
removes the odor. It doesn't just cover it up.
Secondly, ionizers are very popular because they are very cheap to build, and
sell for high dollar amounts. The leading manufacturer of ionizers sell their
product on TV (you know the ones we mean). They sell them for $350.00 or more,
yet this product costs them about $35.00 to produce.
We know the cost to build these products because we are equipment
manufacturers ourselves.
Manufacturers make huge profits on ionizers, sometimes over 1000%, so they
have no interest in ceasing to sell them. They are an easy "sell" because of the
fresh smell to the unknowing consumer.
If we wanted to sell ionizers for outrageous profits we could. As we said, they
are not expensive to build.
* We choose not to sell ionizers because we know they do
not work AND they make bacterial problems worse. They do
so by electronically gluing bacteria, mold spores, and dust
to your walls, floor, and ceiling. *
Ozone, on the other hand, actually kills bacteria, mold spores, and viruses—by
destroying them and leaving only harmless oxygen remaining.
By testing mold spore counts before and after OZONATION (using a mold testing
kit) we prove ozone kills mold and bacteria. (Ionization subjected to the same
tests, no matter how powerful, has no effect on the mold whatsoever.)
Again, what is the Ionizer Black Wall Effect?
All ionizers cause the dreaded "black wall effect" where they will turn your walls
black with dust.
Some ionizer manufacturers claim that their ionizers will not cause the ionizer
black wall effect. This is simply not true. If a machine is a true ionizer then the
dust particles the ions come in contact to must, by the laws of physics, adhere to
the nearest positively charged surface. That is usually your walls floor and
ceiling.
Some say the dust merely drops to the floor to be vacuumed up later. Once
again that is what they would like you to believe, but it is simply not true.
Besides, the dust would still be in your home and not "removed" as most ionizer
manufacturers claim.
Air-Zone Ozone Generators will not cause your walls to
turn black like common ionizers will because our machines only produce very
small amounts of ionization.
Isn't Ozone SMOG?
Ozone is sometimes misunderstood. Ozone is O3—three atoms of oxygen linked
together—rather than the two atoms of oxygen (O2) that we normally breath.
True O3 Ozone is made up entirely of oxygen. Ozone is NOT smog. Ozone is a
compound that naturally occurs in nature.
Ozone is Not Smog
While ozone is sometimes mistakenly referred to as smog, SMOG is actually a
combination of hydrocarbons, among them being CO², CO, and SO².
These hydrocarbons are most commonly created by the exhaust that comes
from automobiles.
Ozone pushes these hydrocarbons back to the surface of the earth in order to
use its natural purification abilities to break them apart on a molecular level.
What is commonly called "ozone" in referring to the ground level air quality are
really a mixture of these various toxic hydrocarbons, NOT O3 ozone.
We know that Ozone is a colorless gas. When we look at true smog, we can see
that it is certainly not colorless.
And in fact, without Ozone the Earth could not clean itself of the true SMOG
which is made up of the aforementioned hydrocarbons.
Ozone has a distinct beneficial role in smog reduction: its ability to break down
and oxidize hydrocarbons and particulates in the air. When it is said the ozone
level is high and there is more SMOG, it really means that while the ozone is
higher than normal at surface levels, the real danger is not the O3 ozone, it is the
hydrocarbons the heavier-than-air ozone is trying to clean.
When excessive amounts of man-made hydrocarbons
are produced, there will be higher concentrations of
ozone as a natural reaction to an unnatural situation.
While very high levels of ozone are not good to breathe, the levels we find in the
outside air fall within acceptable breathing limits.
Many attack ozone as a threat, but it is only a threat to the
many ineffective but high-profit air purification products
being sold today such as ionizers.
Ionizers produce high profits for the sellers, sometimes well over 1000%, but
they do not produce clean environments. Ionization can't kill mold or bacteria,
and it can't break apart hydrocarbons.
Some ionizers claim to turn pollution into oxygen. REAL pollution such as
hyrdocarbons can't be turned into oxygen. Dust or pollen can't be turned into
oxygen. Ozone can be turned into oxygen, but ozone is NOT pollution.
Some ionizers now say they have a device on them that converts SMOG into
oxygen. They are under the mistaken assumption that ozone is SMOG.
What it REALLY does is convert natural ozone into oxygen, thereby
PREVENTING the natural ozone from cleaning the real SMOG (which are the
toxic hydrocarbons).
In the future ozone will replace many ineffective forms of air
purification, including ionization, once the public becomes
educated to the real benefits of ozone.
(AND NOW GENANO® TECHNOLOGY HAS
REPLACED OZONE GENERATORS)
Can UV light kill mold?
This is a quote from General Electric concerning their germicidal UV lamps:
"No. Once mold has already formed, ultraviolet energy will not eliminate it."
It is a proven fact that ozone KILLS mold.
Only a true high powered ozone generator can kill mold
with high ozone shock treatments.
(GENANO DOES IT MUCH MORE EFFECTIVELY.)
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Austin Pure Air Agents,
This excerpted material has provided a good look at two things:
1) Sound arguments by Austin Air against Ion Generators.
2) A good explanation by Austin Air of its now old and outdated
technology which is far inferior to GENANO.
Austin PURE Air is proud to be the distributor of world-leading
GENANO® Technology products. There are no real competitors!