how can I invest in them, if they make such a great effort in their video to avoid explaining what it does exactly?
Here you go, there's an article under the video:
If we had to guess, we'd say the FAQ are referring to this study, published by Ray and his team in a June 2011 issue of Nature, in which the researchers identify three groups of chemicals that can which disrupt a mosquito's carbon dioxide receptors
And also a helpful comment by "ciller" below the article:
DEET works by blocking the CO2 receptors on mosquitos, this causes the mosquito to be unable to figure out non food sources from usable ones. If this kite patch blocks the CO2 receptors as well as DEET does, then it should be effective.
I work in a laboratory that deals with mosquito related problems quite a bit and we are more then willing to test these things out in a small scale field study. A viable alternative to DEET that you dont have to apply over your entire skin surface area would be rather ideal.
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It sounds very good, but how can I invest in them, if they make such a great effort in their video to avoid explaining what it does exactly?
How do you hide a CO2 footprint, when that same footprint could be smelled by a from musquito 100 meters away? Why not just tell us?
Here you go, there's an article under the video:
And also a helpful comment by "ciller" below the article:
It's not a very comforting explanation if it comes from a Pop Science blogger and starts with "If we had to guess..."
If the mosquito can find you from 100 meters away, that doesn't mean it can find you once it gets 1 meter from you and its CO₂ receptors are confused.