About 15 years ago National Geographic had a center fold
article about a pollution study that was done .... and it started here
in St. Louis. They were using passenger balloons with all
instruments on board you could ever think of...
Scientists too!!! lol Anyway they got ontop of an
ozone induced thermal and
drifted all the way to New York City .... (I think) It was
impressive to see the balloons floating on top of this orange
colored ozone layer.

Nedra
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"BenignVanilla" m wrote in
message ...
"Bonnie Espenshade" wrote in message
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Personally I think you're out of luck John, being in DC I suspect
(correct
me if I'm wrong) that your rain is quite acidic and it will forever
cause
your roof to toss of Copper. ~ jan

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Now ~jan...that wasn't a dig on DC was it? Livin in MD, I would have
to
say,
"Them's fightin' words..."

BV.
disclaimerPurely in Jest/disclaimer


No, I'm just assumming again, gets me in trouble all the time. (

I'm assuming all the East Coast has problems with Acid rain due to how
their electrical power is produce. I should have waited on Ingrid to
answer. ;o) ~ jan
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I think it because the air currents travel from West to East
and picks up polution along the way. Not because of how we
produce our electricity, but that does help in some cases,
but remember we too use nuclear energy (TMI).
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There have been some interesting studies done (I have no sources on hand,
I
just remember reading about them) about the flow of pollution from the
central parts of the US. It seems a large part of the pollution in the NE
drifts in from middle eastern part of the US. Although we do have our
share
to be sure. We definitely need more nuke plants.

BV.