[Fathub]

I've been in the HVAC/R industry now for 40 years (this June) and it always AMAZES me how North Americans will spend $60,000 on an SUV and $5 once or twice a day for a Starbuck's coffee BUT the coffee's in the toilet in an hour and the SUV in 5 years has cost in annual fuel and insurance coupled with depreciation--$80,000, and now it's time to replace it before the tires, exhaust and brakes blow up so you can start incurring the next $80-90,000 depreciation all over again in something you spend less than 15 minutes/day in!!!!!!
Now.....once every 20-25 years, trying to get someone to put an efficient HVAC/R system into their house much less an environmentally respectful system and my 40 years is akin to asking a 5 year old to clean their room and bring their laundry down to the laundry room. They stomp their feet, hold their breath and throw themselves down on the kitchen floor whilst turning purple. Consequently, they usually crap the bed on doing the right thing and put in a lousy Indoor Air Quality heating system that sort of does the job. Since we've turned into such greed freaks committing all spending priorities over to the current acid test of either being able to justify 'the purchase' in stroking our ego or the lesser priority of 'payback' period.
Consequently the 'box in the basement with a complicated payback period causes us to live in cesspools in our houses with respect to viruses and bacteria although we'll spend $10,000/yr on questionable 'organic food'......no @$%^ way are we going to put in a 'proper' healthy HVAC/R system that we rely on being the stewards of our health for 16-24 hours a day....everyday.

Cynlite is onto something. That quasi PCO system coupled with HEPA is a way to neutralize the VOCs as well as filter out the dead skin and other 'dust'. I run two Air Purifiers in my two central systems 24/7. The air flow overhead is about $35/yr so it's $0.10/day and the system is responsible for 70% of the operation cost of my house so it's also 75% less in operating cost than a fossil fuel CO2/particulate spewing POS furnace and it lasts for 25 years not 15 yrs that fossil fuel furnace would last so at 1/3 through it's lifespan, it's paid for itself. Lets see that POS SUV come within 1000 miles of that!


Yup, I do feel passionate on this and it proved itself with my 3 incredibly healthy daughters and prevented probably 90% of communicable diseases in the house when they were growing up and coupled with my mtn biking and oil of oregano, have prevented me from getting the flu or a cold for basically the last 20 years.
But unfortunately our priorities are on decided by 'stuff' that is ego stroking or 'don't have the money' hypocritical excuses that see the same proponent dumping 3X as much money into 'cool stuff' a week later. We reap what we sow......and although smart men learns by their mistakes.....wise men learn by the mistakes of others.......most of us are smart......not wise!!!