Show HN: My city makes me smoke 40 cigarettes per day

20 pointsposted 7 months ago
by namanyayg
(air.nmn.gl)

16 Comments

glonq

7 months ago

Good job on reporting on the problem, but you might want to cut the "Practical Wisdom" section because it is quite dubious.

I grew up in a northern Canadian city where fireplaces and heating oil was common, and when a cold weather inversion hit the streets were choked with smoke and we were told that it was the same as smoking N cigarettes per day.

namanyayg

7 months ago

Fair point, I'll cut that out

Did you guys use any face masks back then?

glonq

7 months ago

Oh no, no such thing back then!

profsummergig

7 months ago

> AQI 1000 - equivalent to smoking 40+ cigarettes daily

Request someone to please provide a reliable source for this.

Arnt

7 months ago

I've also heard 50. If either number sounds unbelievably high, well, the air in Delhi in the winter is unbelievably bad and who cares about the details.

I feel very sorry for the people who can't move away.

user

7 months ago

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aziaziazi

7 months ago

Visiting with safari or Firefox load the page for some seconds then show me an error "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)."

iPhone SE / iOS 15.8.3

namanyayg

7 months ago

Thanks for pointing that out, it seems to work on Firefox on Android. I'll check it out on iPhone and fix this asap.

ilrwbwrkhv

7 months ago

Wow those are insane numbers and so sad. Are the local governments not doing anything to help?

namanyayg

7 months ago

There are some active initiatives like truck mounted water sprinklers [0], banning non-essential goods vehicles [1], and talks of cloud seeding [2].

But I don't think any of those are actually effective, they are just ways to distract. Barely anything is done to stop the root cause.

[0] https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/truck-moun...

[1] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/what-is-cloud-se...

[2] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/air-pollution-grap...

ilrwbwrkhv

7 months ago

What's the root cause?

namanyayg

7 months ago

Stubble burning in neighbouring states and countries is one of the big ones

Secondarily it's vehicular and industry emissions. There are MANY factories in Delhi and they all expel their industrial wastes into both the air and water of the city.

user

7 months ago

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dakhaliwalla

7 months ago

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namanyayg

7 months ago

Fair point, I'll remove that section. I added it because I wanted people to have some symptomatic relief at least.

Different types of air pollutants exist, and Delhi's smog is especially fatal.