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If $20M per year can actually clean up Delhi's air that would be a great solution. That is if that works. Central Delhi's population is 10M and this is $2 per y
by tn13 10y ago
If $20M per year can actually clean up Delhi's air that would be a great solution. That is if that works. Central Delhi's population is 10M and this is $2 per year per head.
I am pretty sure people are spending lot more than that to protect themselves from harm coming from pollution.
> If India has 20 million a year to spend on fuel for this contraption, why wouldn't they just spend that money to clean up the power plants instead?
Shows gross ignorance about Delhi and India. Delhi's pollution is not caused by power plants. This is not California you are talking about.
Powerplant do not contribute much to Delhi's pollution. The real problem with Delhi is that it is land-locked city surrounded by even more polluting industries. Delhi administration has 0 control over what happens in the 4 neighboring states.
People around Delhi are burning wood and cow-dung to cook food. There are thousands of brick kilns that produce worst kind of soot. Farmers in Punjab regularly burn husk. Unlike Mumbai Delhi has no oceanside to replace city's polluted air with relatively cleaner air.
For example In Delhi fine particle pollution rates are ten times higher than that of Chennai, which has ten times more cars but is coastally located, without the surrounding industrial areas.
- tempestn 10y agoHe's only talking about one of these units though. They would need more than that to completely clean up the city's air, assuming it works.