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Will future fuel consumption help us breath or eventually kill us?

 By: Jacinda Solis

Air quality in Southeast Asia is already impacted by their population on top of that all the machines that are being used daily give off excessive gas emissions. Which puts their people at a significant health risk, that has also been affecting their source of eating being their environmental and agricultural crops. So, by seeing this impact on people so clearly, examination on the impact of fossil fuel aerosols was done by using five different hypothetical fuel consumption scenarios that show how the air quality differs between each of them. Whether the air is affected in longer distances, over a larger area or in general becoming worse indefinitely. From 2006 to 2008, CO, NO3, O2, OC and BC emissions have increased being from gas, coal, modern, shipping and a regular reference. Results have showed that if carbon dioxide, black carbon, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide were replaced with something else, they would reduce emissions significantly from each scenario. 




 References
Lee, H., Iraqui, O. & Wang, C. The Impact of Future Fuel Consumption on Regional Air Quality in Southeast Asia. Sci Rep 9, 2648 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39131-3








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  1. Vcampos54September 25, 2020 at 7:18 PM

    Hey Jacinda your topic is really interesting. Thinking two steps ahead of where we are right now is something we should all do. But also planning ahead for healthier and more eco friendly options for our future generations. Air pollution is becoming so great it can hardly be controlled. Between human made pollution and natural events such as these huge and catastrophic wildfires that are contaminating the air at high levels. Hopefully not only one country but every country in the world could work together to find some kind of solution for this significant problem that could very much affect us negatively in the future.

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  2. M MendezOctober 21, 2020 at 5:35 PM

    Replacing fossil fuels with an alternative energy source could improve environmental sustainability by reducing the pollution output. I am curious as to which of the pollutants studied in the article would be reduced most effectively by different technologies.

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