Friday, February 28, 2014

Line of Smog in the Sky Over Kuwait

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  1. technically kim, that's not smog. the doha power station runs on natural gas (cleanest) or heavy fuel oil (dirtiest) . when it runs on heavy fuel and there's a temperature inversion in the atmosphere it traps residue at that layer of the atmosphere. i have a family member at ministry of electricity and water and ran the pipeline to doha from ahmadi that's how i know

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    1. Thank you. I think it's being run on the latter.

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    2. Smog is a type of air pollution. The word "smog" was made in the early 20th century as a portmanteau of the words smoke and fog to refer to smoky fog. The word was then intended to refer to what was sometimes known as pea soup fog, a familiar and serious problem in London from the 19th century to the mid 20th century. This kind of smog is caused by the burning of large amounts of coal within a city; this smog contains soot particulates from smoke, sulfur dioxide and other components. Modern smog, as found for example in Los Angeles, is a type of air pollution derived from vehicular emission from internal combustion engines and industrial fumes that react in the atmosphere with sunlight to form secondary pollutants that also combine with the primary emissions to form photochemical smog. The atmospheric pollution levels of Los Angeles, Mexico City and other cities are increased by inversion that traps pollution close to the ground. It is usually highly toxic to humans and can cause severe sickness, shortened life or death.

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