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Is this really the best way to study this? First of all you can do this only infrequently, you need special equipment to measure the gas at specific locations a
by sschueller 5y ago
Is this really the best way to study this? First of all you can do this only infrequently, you need special equipment to measure the gas at specific locations and you will fuel conspiracies about the gas and possibly cause panic if the gas is visible to those who are not informed.
Instead you could spend the money to build an accurate computer model and simulate hundreds of possibilities, different wind directions, traffic conditions etc.
- onecommentman 5y agoYou can spend lotsa money on pure simulations (only hundreds?) and get some great insights on dispersal patterns and the like. It will make you feel good, but unless you validate your results against field data, you won’t know if you’ve learned enough to respond effectively during an actual event. Also, you need actual observational data to meaningfully calibrate any simulation involving potential human fatalities. There are over 100 NYC restaurants serving bean burritos, so it’s not like it’s the first time such experiments have been run.