howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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see this article on facebook earlier ,dismissed it as a scare story.
but that yellow murk has been hanging around for the last 10 days or so.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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just come back on to say that the problem highlighted has been hanging around for years now.and this chap has just seen it.
Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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Oh dear Howard, I read the title and thought you had had one too many curries!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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not me lesley, it was a farmer in capel that spread something on his crops, i always get the blame.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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My 2013 representation to DDC Planning asking that the core strategy be reviewed is based on carbon emissions, including pollution from maritime traffic, and the increased pollution that would stem from 10,000 new homes, counting an average of one car per household.
It has been accepted, so it is being taken into consideration.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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That's fantastic news Alexander. That should bring down global temperatures by at least 0.00000000000000000000000000000047%
Keep up the good work.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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My representation is specifically in reference to pollution in Dover, Philip.
If I hear anything, I'll let you all know!
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Are you talking about carbon or sulphuric emissions?
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
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Deep Sea Ocean going cargo vessels are already subject to Sulphur Emission Control up the English Channel and into the North Sea. We have to burn Fuel Oil with very low Sulphur content as soon as we enter the SECA at the Western end of the Channel. The same Sulphur restriction is coming into force for Marine Diesel Oil. However, when burning Low Sulphur Fuel Oil, the engine is less efficient and vessels burn more of the more expensive product which leads to higher CO2 emissions - oo er.
The layer of brown that we see out across the Channel at the moment is with us everytime we have an extended period with High Pressure over the UK in summer months - simply put - the hot air rising from the land and the earth's surface meets the downward pressure of the High and emissions are trapped and condense in a layer where the velocity of the rising air column is cancelled out by the downward velocity of the air column causing the High pressure and we get (and have had on and off for many years) a mucky brown layer of condensed emissions from ships transiting the Straits.
I often got a similar effect during the summer months in Hong Kong when the mucky brown layer formed at the height of my flat windows on the 35th floor in Tsai Wah on Hong Kong island.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I hope the lifts were working Neil!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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beat me to it terry.
let's hope the hong kong chinese do not have the same habits in tower block lifts as some of our british brethren, doesn't bear thinking about in those high temperatures.