Inhaber H.
Year:
1984
Bibliographic info:
Indoor Air. Vol.1 Recent Advances in the Health Sciences and Technology edited by B. Berglund, T. Lindvall and J. Sundell. Sweden Council for Building Research. Stockholm. 20-24 August 1984, 161-167, 1 fig, 10 refs. in English #DATE 20:08:1984 AIC bk,

There have been considerable efforts to estimate risks to health from the present level of indoor air quality. However, there has been comparatively little work to relate these calculated risks to other risks of energy use or conservation, or to determine how large these risks will be in the future. This paper finds that, on the basis of extrapolated trends, risk associated with changes in indoor air quality in the United States. The other two are associated with the expected change to smaller automobiles and the entire coal fuel cycle, from producing electricity to synthetic fuels. A key assumption is that the average air infiltration rates in U.S. homes will decrease by a factor of about two over the next four decades.