Is there a way to get more leverage on this? Maybe: - Research new sterilization tech (like shining UV-C light horizontally across the ceiling in a way that cleans the air but doesn’t harm people) so that buildings can be retrofitted more easily, without redoing the whole HVAC system? This would count under FTX’s project idea #8. - Lobbying for better air-filtration systems to be made a requirement for schools and offices as a matter of government budgets (for schools) and regulation (for offices)? I’m sure we could swing a state or local ballot proposition in a covid-cautious and wildfire-plagued place like California.
I think we’re bottlenecked more on really good designs than on the politics, but I’m not sure. I also vaguely have this cached view that a lot of whether built-environment innovations are used in practice depends on things that look more like building codes than office politics, but this is a pretty ill-formed view that I have low confidence in.
I guess that I sort of believe all three should be done in a sane world, and which things we ought to prioritize in practice will depend on a combination of “POV of the universe” modeling and personal fit considerations of whoever wants to implement any of these considerations.
Is there a way to get more leverage on this? Maybe:
- Research new sterilization tech (like shining UV-C light horizontally across the ceiling in a way that cleans the air but doesn’t harm people) so that buildings can be retrofitted more easily, without redoing the whole HVAC system? This would count under FTX’s project idea #8.
- Lobbying for better air-filtration systems to be made a requirement for schools and offices as a matter of government budgets (for schools) and regulation (for offices)? I’m sure we could swing a state or local ballot proposition in a covid-cautious and wildfire-plagued place like California.
I think we’re bottlenecked more on really good designs than on the politics, but I’m not sure. I also vaguely have this cached view that a lot of whether built-environment innovations are used in practice depends on things that look more like building codes than office politics, but this is a pretty ill-formed view that I have low confidence in.
I guess that I sort of believe all three should be done in a sane world, and which things we ought to prioritize in practice will depend on a combination of “POV of the universe” modeling and personal fit considerations of whoever wants to implement any of these considerations.