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Old 10-14-2009, 06:30 PM   #84 (permalink)
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To make the matter as complicated as possible, you'd want to design a venturi that could capture the airflow of ~ 50 square feet while the wind is traveling at approximately 7 MPH, and channel it through the ~ 1 square foot of the average air filter, with as little skin friction as possible. Compression losses are inevitable.

That would qualify as "blowing it out with compressed air".
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