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I agree with you, but pollution could have come from burning wood or coal for heating and cooking it isn’t all from industry.
by pmorici 6y ago
I agree with you, but pollution could have come from burning wood or coal for heating and cooking it isn’t all from industry.
- 101404 6y agoThat leads to the next question: why would Corona-stay-at-home stop people from cooking food or heating their homes?
- saagarjha 6y agoPerhaps they are using natural gas instead of biomass?
- 101404 6y agoNot really. Wood or coal stoves are still very much in use in villages. At least that's what I saw living in many developing countries for the past two decades. Btw, burning biomass would not change the problem. Wood and charcoal is biomass too.
- senorjazz 6y agoPeople in Kathmandu are using gas. That's a few million people. Sure in the villages, but the numbers pale in comparison
- 101404 6y agoWrong again. In developing countries, a majority of people live in the countryside. That's one thing that differentiates those countries from developed countries. But that's not really important, because even if only 20% of households used wood/coal for cooking, it is very much noticiable.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoParticulate pollution from burning is mostly non-combusted junk. The bigger the scale the more it makes sense to invest in technology that lets you get more out of your fuel from more complete combustion. Someone just burning trash to get rid of it can burn it in a pit. Someone burning trash as a fuel for their industrial process that requires heat is going to invest in a gasifier burner so they're not spewing wasted joules out the smokestack.
- checker659 6y ago> burning wood or coal Brick kilns, yes. Heating and cooking, not really. People either use LPG stoves or induction cookers.
- Naracion 6y agoWe're talking about 1920 though :)