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		LeoPanthera on May 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: For $39, Frontier Air Will Let Passengers Keep The... The level of UVC required to kill viruses would also cause sunburn and arc flash[1] in minutes. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photokeratitis You could run it when the plane was empty, but if you're going to do that, you might as well just put the lights on a cart and push it through the plane.

buck4roo on May 5, 2020 [–]

222nm (far uvc) is effective, studied, and has zero health hazards

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5552051/

thombat on May 5, 2020 | [–]

Very interesting report! Do you have information on how common materials such as plastics and clothing fabrics respond to a germicidal level of UVC?

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