Shanghai Air
The air here is, um, interesting. Actually, not nearly as bad or polluted as I expected, but maybe that's an illusion as it fills my lungs with grit. If I'm ever here full time, it will be important to get a good HEPA filter. Sometimes you can barely see the sun !
It's pretty rare to see more than 10 blocks and often buildings just 500-1000 feet away are hazy, but at least there isn't any Beijing-style coal-fired pollution. Fortunately the city is now banning any car or bus without a first class European-level emissions certificate, which should help a lot (something like 150,000 vehicles will fail). And they are moving dozens of polluting factories out to the far suburbs.
Of couse some days are stunning !
It's pretty rare to see more than 10 blocks and often buildings just 500-1000 feet away are hazy, but at least there isn't any Beijing-style coal-fired pollution. Fortunately the city is now banning any car or bus without a first class European-level emissions certificate, which should help a lot (something like 150,000 vehicles will fail). And they are moving dozens of polluting factories out to the far suburbs.
Of couse some days are stunning !
posted by Steve at 4:01 PM
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