{"article":{"id":220592,"heading":"Simple Water Mist Scrubber for Congested Freeways?","author":"Roxbury","created":"2008-09-24 00:45:40","modified":"2008-09-25 22:58:44","last_modified":"Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:58:44","article":"<br><br> It may be a simple solution for Congested,Polluted  Freeways? Just a simple,water-mist \"scrubber\" consisting of a series of poles (like light standards) that are 50 to 100 feet high,along a stretch of highway,and which,at their upper levels,eject a jetted,water mist spray above and over the surface area of a congested freeway!  <br>  <br> The benefits would be to wet down and weigh down the rising exhaust gases from thousands of cars and trucks,and bring these moistened,cooled exhaust gases and particulates back down to ground level as a congealed,liquified  solution or aggregate.This water\/exhaust solution could be retrieved at ground level and disposed of or recycled.The amount of water needed would not be prohibitive financially or resource wise plus it would clean and improve a large section of the breathable atmosphere!. <br><br> \n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"...and bring these moistened,cooled exhaust gases and particulates back down to ground level as a congealed,liquified  solution or aggregate.","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2008\/09\/220592.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":220641,"heading":"No, too caustic and concentrated","article":"Engaging in any kind of reducing or concentrating of otherwise gasious pollutants would cause caustic damage to vehicles and to surrounding city or urban residential and commercial buildings, more so when mixed with water which would accelerate oxyidation.\r\n","author":"Fredric L. Rice","parent_id":220592,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-09-25 16:42:39","modified":"2008-09-25 16:42:39","fileurl":""},{"id":220646,"heading":"Seattle and Vancouver???","article":"Really? Well what about in rainy cities like Seattle and Vancouver and even New York in the fall and winter - doesn't the rain do the same thing there i.e. washes exhaust pollution out of the atmosphere?\r\nAlso whatever goes up must come down sometime...and somewhere - so its ok for L.A.'s pollution to fall inland or over Utah,Nevada etc.? \r\n\r\nUsing &quot;water mist&quot; to basically wet down automobile exhausts along busy freeways would help clean the breathable atmosphere and whatever is washed down could be collected and either recycled or desposed of more safely.","author":"Roxbury","parent_id":220592,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2008-09-25 22:58:44","modified":"2008-09-25 22:58:44","fileurl":""}]}