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The Blade Effect
Human Health
If every car in the United States had a BLADE on it…
- The U.S. would reduce its annual production of cancer-causing
particulate material by approximately 619 million pounds. - The American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine
reports that reducing 1 microgram of PM per cubic meter of air
decreases death rates from respiratory and cardio-vascular
diseases by 3%. - A recent study by California State University, Fullerton found that
PM emissions from gasoline engines cause more fatalities than all
motor vehicle fatalities ”. The same report also noted that the
health care cost of air pollution in these areas averages $1,425 per
person! - BLADE employs Sabertec’s IDPF particulate technology,
which is effective at capturing emissions of PM 2.5 up to 70
percent . If you apply IDPF’s efficiency at capturing par-
ticulates to numbers presented by California State
University—Fullerton, this would amount to a cost savings
of $997.5 per person. If you applied that savings to the
nation’s total population, BLADE would save over $299
billion per year in health care costs that now exist due to
the health consequences particulate material emissions.
- The California State University, Fullerton study continues to conclude that “if pollution levels were to improve to
federal standards, residents of the two air basins would suffer 3,860 fewer premature deaths, 3,780 fewer
nonfatal heart attacks and would miss 470,000 fewer days of work annually. School children would miss more
than 1.2 million fewer days of school, a savings of $112 million in caregiver costs. There also would be more
than 2 million fewer cases of upper respiratory problems .” Apply those figures to the nation as a whole and
the numbers are staggering.
