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I've driven through Texas, and there is this 300 mile+ stretch, in the North, that is hell on earth. Pure putrid smog, the skies darkened, the air thick, dank,
by b112 4y ago
I've driven through Texas, and there is this 300 mile+ stretch, in the North, that is hell on earth. Pure putrid smog, the skies darkened, the air thick, dank, cloying from refineries or something.
So yeah, great place to build something, and save cash on tech to cleanup your waste. Yay Texas!
I swear people must die 10 years sooner in that stretch.
- jefftk 4y ago> people must die 10 years sooner in that stretch No Texas county breaks the top 10 for counties with the shortest life expectancy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._counties_with_shortest_life_expectancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._counties_with_sho... 10 years less than the national average would get you to 69, and be #5 on the list. For comparison, #50 is only 6y below the national average.
- stevenwoo 4y agoThere are worse places just in Texas - there's a chemical refinery locus to the east side of Houston near the port and bigger one near the border with Louisiana with so many flares at night it reminds one of Mad Max a bit, though there are various plants scattered along the gulf coast as well, were a half dozen that I knew of in the mostly rural county I grew up in to the south of Houston.
- SoftTalker 4y agoBit of a tangent but I've often wondered why refineries don't generate electricity from their unwanted gas instead of flaring it off.
- Ferrotin 4y agoFlare gas recovery systems do burn the excess gas to power the refineries. I’d guess the generated heat is used directly without conversion to electricity.
- jquery 4y agoThat’s absolutely appalling, whether or not it shaves a full ten years off people. Reminds me of the one time I visited Ghengzao in China. The pollution was so bad it was cloying.