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Some sort of air pollution now detectable EVERYWHERE, it seems.

Grim.

Still, you could be living on road that delineates the safe zone from the contaminated zone in towns in Northern Japan. Clickety, clickety.

I am currently working on an air pollution project, we are designing electrostatic precipitators (ESPs) and Baghouses for the coal power plant.

In the United States the EPA is a bit too strict which is puttinga lot of burden on the engineers(i am not a PE yet but still....)

It's a grim reality. A few years ago it was afforded as one of the main reasons we see so many more allergies in young children. Some expert said that the children of today are not living with hundreds more pollutants than their grandparents.

That and preservatives in food and drinks, I'd reckon. Unbelievable the difference in the prevalence of kiddy allergies from when I was a kid to kids of today.

It all started when they stopped giving out School Milk (with extra harden up) in the 70s ....

Quite possibly, A.

skully wrote:Grim.

Still, you could be living on road that delineates the safe zone from the contaminated zone in towns in Northern Japan. Clickety, clickety.

But think how much you'd save on power bills because you glow in the dark.

Scarey shit, man. It must be SO depressing to be a survivor of the devoed cities in Northern Japan.

embee wrote:It all started when they stopped giving out School Milk (with extra harden up) in the 70s ....

Fark .. don't tell me Maggie Thatcher was blamed for stopping handing out Aus school milk as well ...!

I remember fondly how we big tough 4th year Primary kids manned up and shunned chocolate and pink milk and went straight for the hard stuff - plain white. We, as 9 year olds, used to have white milk sculling competitions to see how quickly we could down a ½ pint bottle at "little lunch". We seemed such he-men at the time as we guzzled the standard school recess milk bottle. From distant memory 4 seconds was the record to empty one of the beasts into one's gullet.

You shunned brown and pink and went straight for white? I'm sure MB has a joke he can dust off for that one.

That would be too easy a target, not even embee would stoop to taking the seemingly obligatory SGDT shot at that.

skully wrote:That and preservatives in food and drinks, I'd reckon. Unbelievable the difference in the prevalence of kiddy allergies from when I was a kid to kids of today.

Yes, thankfully however, your reckoning isn't really evidence. You can't just decide it's preservatives based on there being more preservatives now than in your childhood; there are many more variables at work.

[I did type up some reasoning here, but ****** it. Don't swallow the news whole, you should know it is fearmongering, sensationalist bullshit, especially with science because they KNOW no one will bother their arse to actually look anything up.]

Preservatives aren't going to give you allergies.

Red wrote:It's a grim reality. A few years ago it was afforded as one of the main reasons we see so many more allergies in young children. Some expert said that the children of today are not living with hundreds more pollutants than their grandparents.

So it can't be pollutants then...