{"id":8230,"date":"2020-03-28T00:22:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T07:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8230"},"modified":"2020-08-16T16:09:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T23:09:44","slug":"molekule-air-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/28\/molekule-air-filter\/","title":{"rendered":"Molekule Air Filter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>8-16-20: A friend asked about the Molekule filter, this is what I had to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TL;DR: Scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t own one but I had a conversation with them about the quality of their product after getting facebook bombed by their product a zillion times. They came up empty in all regards. It&#8217;s louder, moves less air, and is MUCH more expensive than any other air filter on the market. Their &#8220;unique pollutant destroying technology&#8221; is an activated carbon filter. The molekule guy said he has a report &#8220;coming out soon&#8221; showing how their filter was better than blah blah blah. I googled and found the &#8220;upcoming&#8221; report on the molekule website itself! I grabbed it and put it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/molekule-third-party-Intertek-test-report-vocs.pdf\">the report here<\/a>. Performance of the filter is IDENTICAL to reasonably good filtration + an activated carbon filter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want a good air filter, the best start is to get a good furnace filter from the hardware store. Spend $20 on a filter instead of the usual $8 and you&#8217;re rocking it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/15\/smokey-bay-area\">That worked very well for recent wildfires<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>scam alert for reals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8-16-20: A friend asked about the Molekule filter, this is what I had to say: TL;DR: Scam. I don&#8217;t own one but I had a conversation with them about the quality of their product after getting facebook bombed by their product a zillion times. They came up empty in all regards. It&#8217;s louder, moves less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}