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Airplanes drop water on Tehran to fight air pollution
2010-12-08
pressTV
General Director of Tehran's Environment Protection Organization said earlier on Tuesday ..."Five airplanes have sprayed the city in twenty flights since Tuesday morning and twenty to thirty flights have also been scheduled for the afternoon," Rasoul Ashrafipour told IRNA.
water plus SO2 gives you something pretty nasty, I wonder if this guy got his job via Mullah connections rather than competence
"The project will continue tomorrow with five more airplanes which will spray about 2,000 liters of water at each take-off," he added.

Head of Iran's Environment Protection Organization (IEPO) had earlier said that Tehran's air pollution was still at an alarming level due to the accumulation of pollutants and the pattern of air inversion.
also, Iran makes its own motor fuel with only minimal desulfurization and minimal removal of heavy metals
According to Mohammad Javad Mohammadizadeh, the organization's researchers were trying to find ways to shake up the atmosphere to produce rain or create artificial wind corridors to blow the thick haze away.

Tehran Governor General Morteza Tamaddon also said that the IEPO was designing ventilation and air conditioner systems to be installed in about a hundred polluted spots of the capital.
Posted by:lord garth

#4  It would just peel the skin off my face and arms.

Without once having to submit to the ministrations of beauty salon technicians, Skidmark. You saved a small fortune getting that pretty face! ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-12-08 13:26  

#3  I remember bicycling to work in the early '80s thru Huntington Beach, CA. The morning mist off the coast would blend with the cool, settled smog and make a nice sulphuric acid blend in the warming sun. It would just peel the skin off my face and arms.
Posted by: Skidmark   2010-12-08 07:58  

#2  water plus SO2 gives you something pretty nasty, I wonder if this guy got his job via Mullah connections rather than competence

Actually that's the kind of thinking what most leading western universities teach their students as "environmental science".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2010-12-08 07:47  

#1  Let US shake up Tehran's atmosphere & create some big winds.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2010-12-08 00:31  

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