Smog Movies

I am doing a research project about the physics of indoor air quality and my subtoopic is electricity and polarity which is really only in air filters.

You will want to learn more about the Electro Breeze polarized media air cleaner at http://www.electro-breeze-supply.com/asthma_air_purifier.html. These are the best air cleaners on the market and are strictly effective because of the electrical charge. If you look on the commercial side of this site, you will see the engineering specs for the products which will give you a detailed description of their capacity and applications. I hope this helps.

Anybody else find this weirdly amazing? I mean like NKorea, ud think theyd have rly inefficient powerplants and stuff, and their carbon emissions per capita is 3x that of India, yet Mumbai has one of the worst air quality in the world?

Got this info from uni project btw, friend actually went there since there wasnt enough published records to create a real global scale. (Earth and Environmental science)

ok that is pretty interesting.

Also what are some of the economic costs of efforts to improve air quality and reduce pollution?

please help me!!!!!

The Environmental Protection Agency is the ones who enforce the air quality regulations. E P A
They monitor air quality and what many factories and even cars put out in the atmosphere.
They check areas and monitor the air.
Even cars have to have some air quality control Henceforth the Catalytic converters.
As far as economically it costs the car manufactures money which is passed on to the buyers and even factories and coal burning plants have to clean up their acts. Power companies that use coal pass the cost of air quality on to the consumer.
So in the long run we pay for it when we purchase products for the most part

I am managing a youth group home residing in a historic building. The building is 100 years old and it does not have central air circulation system. Time to time the building always smell bad, especially near restrooms no matter how much we clean them. It is too difficult and expensive to install air circulation sysytem in an old building like this. Is there any other ways to get rid of the smell? Is there any thing I can spray to make the air fresh? Thank you very much in advance.

I have been working with historic homes for over 25 years and have dealt with this problem in several ways, depending on the source of the smell. Plaster walls are often the source because they are porous. Wash the walls with a 50/50 bleach solution, then sea the plaster with a sealer like Kilz. If you have wooden floors, old gunk can get in the grooves and create a smell. The only thing you can do here short of refinishing the floors is to run a blunt knife along the cracks. You can also put baking soda under all your rugs.

Old plumbing creates smells because of years of gunk built up and hardened along the inside of the pipes. This requires a plumber to run an auger through the pipes. Often in older building, the main drain is not angled enough to completely expel waste water, so the pipes always have water in them. Plumbing upgrades can also over burden poorly engineered waste pipes. Lastly, make sure your plumbing system is vented correctly, and that the vent is not stopped up with bird’s nests or leaves. This problem causes smells to come and go depending on the type and amount of waste going through the pipes at any given time. Once your plumbing is checked, install fans to keep the air moving!

do you feel the efforts to improve our country’s air quality are worth the economic cost?

Are you serious?

Do you think anyone would rather be rich and die young of lung issues than be somewhat poorer but live longer and with a better quality of life?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution

As it is, the air is clearly still too dirty. Particulates are less of a problem, but we still have acid rain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain
and many industrial chemicals in gaseous form are poisoning us.

The economic costs so far have been not non-existent, but still almost negligible.

The automobile industry claimed catalytic converters and using lead-free gas would make cars unaffordable, add at least $300 to the cost of each car, etc. They lied.

The coal industry claimed they couldn’t afford to capture sulfur dioxide in the smoke stacks. They lied.

The trucking industry is claiming they can’t afford low-sulfur diesel fuel. Since Europe has been doing it for decades, the U.S. truckers are clearly lying.

Compared to what the country is spending directly on health care once the problems arise, the cost of prevention is so low as to be laughable.

Are there any websites where i can get some past GCSE chemistry papers on air quality?
I need them BEFORE 8.10am on october 7th please (or there is no point answering as i will be doing the test).

Sime information is below./

I’m thinking of doing a project in which I conduct research on air quality FOR BUILDINGS. I repeat, this is not an outdoors air quality project.

I know that there are government standards on the quality of the air seeing as one of my favorite restaurants was closed down for this reason. What agency or person in the U.S. (or south carolina) could I get in touch with for information on this subject?

If the building your asking about is a business, air quality is most likely covered by OSHA or FTC (osha.gov and ftc.gov), however, if the business is something like a restaurant or bar, you should consult your state health board as well. For example, I know that in the automotive repair business, OSHA has federal standards for air quality on a per chemical basis.

I’m thinking of doing a project in which I conduct research on air quality FOR BUILDINGS. I repeat, this is not an outdoors air quality project.

I know that there are government standards on the quality of the air seeing as one of my favorite restaurants was closed down for this reason. What agency or person in the U.S. (or south carolina) could I get in touch with for information on this subject?

If the building your asking about is a business, air quality is most likely covered by OSHA or FTC (osha.gov and ftc.gov), however, if the business is something like a restaurant or bar, you should consult your state health board as well. For example, I know that in the automotive repair business, OSHA has federal standards for air quality on a per chemical basis.

what types of technology is their available to improve our air quality
improve (outside) air quality

I recently saw a program that talked about man made tree’s..

They work like a catalytic converter found in car exhausts. They are made of precious materials and thus very expensive

Some countries still think it is a must have technologies. They would look like or maybe replace street lights, and inside would be a catalyst that can convert nasty gases and fumes into nicer gases, or maybe even capture carbon from the air for disposal in other ways…

I think if you looked up under man made tree’s you might find the info on them.

Unfortunately I drive a 2.0l gas guzzler (by uk standards lol)

I live just outside of Los Angeles, we have pretty bad air quality. For the past month or so about half way threw my day maybe starting in the afternoon, I get a horrible sore throat and it just progresses til I go to bed @ night. The next day I wake up and I feel fine again its the same thing every day I hate it. Does anyone else experience this?
Maybe I’m just dying? Might I add, I’m only 18. I dont think I should be experiencing this…

It goes like this:
Bad air>asthma/lung infection>illness>hospital>death!