ShinerBock wrote:
Funny part is, a lot of the air pollution in the west coast and LA area was NOT from diesels or any other automotive emissions like many have thought over the years. Recent finding show that a lot of pollution comes over from China(who pollutes way more than the US) in the jet stream and the Rockies keep it in the west coast. Compound that with the vehicle emissions and you have an air pollution disaster.
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Yes, an early solution to local air pollution was to build "superstacks" to spread it further away. Again, "dilution is the solution to pollution".
But eventually your neighbours catch on. The sulfuric acid from Sudbury, Ontario's super stack helped acidify lakes in Vermont, whereas previously it was just the local lakes around Sudbury (which are just now beginning to recover).
And the big stacks in the Ohio Valley coal fired electrical plants increase Southern Ontario's air pollution (as did our own coal plants until they were shut down).
