Smog - A REPORT TO THE PEOPLE Episode 10 pps

... LO C'l o (/J Cl w w U x w w (,') <l: a: w > <l: a: => o J: w Z o ~ => ~ X <l: ~ a: <l: w > ;- 155 ABOUT THE AUTHORS LESTER LEES, director of the Environmental Quality Laboratory, is professor of aeronautics and environ- mental engineering at Caltech. He is the author of numerous papers on problems of high speed flight, especially entry of missi...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 07:22

... against the economic and social costs of these measures. The Clean Air Act of 1970 (as amended) appears to give the Administrator of the EPA discretionary authority to approve such an approach by a ... diseases. 6RecommendedAmbient Air Quality Standards Applicable to All Air Basins, a report to the Califor- nia Air Resources Board by the Technical Advisory Committee,...

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... secondary particulate aerosols are known to form as a result of the photochemical smog reaction, and these aerosols may amount to as much as 25% of the total in the atmosphere, on the basis of a ... weight, the payback periods are one and three-quarters years with natural gas and one year with propane. In the second example the payback periods are five years for CNG and...

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... for the carburetor float bowl and other chambers are either eliminated, made internal (so the vapors are consumed by the engine), or manifolded to a vapor storage system such as a carbon canister or ... 5,200 units/yr /truck at 7¢/unit = $364/yr /truck =$1O,920/yr /fleet LPG: 5,720 gal/yr/truck at 6¢/gallon = $343/yr/truck = $1O,300/yr/fleet Total savings: $28,000/yr with natural...

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... be not to recognize any; for example, as in the case of Britain to make propane (or its equivalent) manda- tory for all taxi cabs in London. Just as with the income tax the general argument against ... enjoyed a comparative advantage in trading with the rest of the world because of the role technological competi- tion played and, in part, because of broader sociological fact...

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... with an estimate of average mileage to compute the total mass emissions which are to be taxed. There are two ways of collecting such a tax: one is to impose the tax as an excise or sales tax, and ... be an incentive to operate a well-tuned car even if the tax did not vary with actual miles driven. If the motorist is to pay the tax, however, there is a simple way to...

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... SOUTHERN CAliFORNIA 5.0 I- Peak Supply Level >= <! Cl 4.0 25% Auto H l- f- UJ Conversion Other- UJ u. / Interruptible Average u / Supply o::l Level ::J __ r- - - - u 3.0 I- - u. 0 1 V) 2 - Other Interruptible- 0 ... J ~ <! ex: ::J f- 1.0 ~ <! 2 - Firm- -Firm- -Firm- @)m 1969 1975 Actual Low High Use Projection Projection 142 Figure 13 SUMMARY OF PROPAN...

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... should be reduced to 25 days per year (an additional re- duction of 50% and an overall reduction of 90%).23 The Clean Air Act appears to give the Administrator of the EPA discretion- ary authority to approve an alternative ... State on the nature and amounts of emissions from such stationary sources; also authority for the State to make such data available to the public...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 19:20

... was two decades ahead-in 1990. The federal gov- ernment said otherwise. With the enactment of the Clean Air Amendments of 1970 the timetable for clean air was moved ahead to 1975-or 1977, at the latest. The ... tech- nical measures to which a dollar value can be attached. That's about $100 a head for everyone in the South Coast Air Basin, or, looked at another way,...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 05:20

... California, for example, such an approach is applicable not only to the South Coast Air Basin, but also to the San Diego County Air Basin, the Sac- ramento Valley Air Basin, and the San Francisco Bay ... L .A. " we mean the Downtown L .A Burbank-Pasadena Area. 6 An average of the maximum mid- day oxidant levels measured at the APCD stations in these three locations was...

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