And I guess the crap wouldn’t be neatly enclosed in a box too.
Comment on Air Purification
roofuskit@lemmy.world 13 hours agoNo, it wouldn’t work about as well for several reason. The biggest reason is you’re halving the surface area and reducing the airflow.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago 
Mr_Wobble@thelemmy.club 13 hours ago I use one of these and they are great. The stuff that it filters gets stuck to the outside of the filters, not the inside of the box.
nocturne@slrpnk.net 12 hours ago If you turned the fan the other direction it would trap it inside the box.
Noobnarski@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The biggest reason is that such fans are designed for low pressure and high volume operation, when you blow air around the room you really don’t need very much pressure.
So the fan blades already are already no longer operating at their optimum pressure when they have 5 filters to suck air through (each filter only has to let 1/5 of the air through, so the differential pressure over the filters is much lower), but it’s much closer to the ideal operating pressure than two filters behind each other.
If the pressure gets too high the fan stops being able to push any air through the filters and the efficiency reaches zero.