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Huh.
Well, here in Seattle, uh, it's the air's getting more and more polluted.
We're, uh, we're in kind of a basin
And, uh, Seattle is on Puget Sound which is a inland waterway between two mountains.
And, uh, there's been a lot, a lot of growth, population growth around here
And, uh, it's, uh, it's getting worse
I think most of it is from cars.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Definitely.
Here in Utah up along the Wasatch along the western side of the, of these Rocky Mountains here, where a lot of the big cities are Salt Lake and Ogden and Provo
and Logan's up in the valley a little bit further north,
we get a lot of pollution
and it's like seventy percent of it is from cars.
Uh-huh
And, uh, it always really hits hard during the winter when we get the inversion
And when we get, get cold air down in the valleys and warm air up above
and it just sits and sits and sits
and we're starting to hit pollution levels now on the Wasatch front which match that of L A a few years ago.
Oh.
It's not, it's almost sad.
Because when I grew up here, it was just always the crisp air up in the mountain valleys
and now it's not in the mountain valleys.
Yeah.
Yeah,
I live in the, university district
and, uh, uh, it's supposed to have about the worst air pollution
I think probably due to, uh, a lot of students going back and forth to school.
Huh.
And then we're right next to Interstate Five also.
They're getting serious about things like, uh, mandatory,
well they've already passed laws where you have to get your cars checked for pollution if you're in certain counties,
emissions.
Oh, yeah.
have they started doing that yet?
Yeah.
They've actually started doing it down along the,
not in Logan up here cause we're doing a lot better.
We have a lot, population is a lot lighter up here.
We have that here
and, uh, they're, they're expanding it to, uh, more counties here. Uh, as the population spreads out
and I think they're also going to be making it, uh, mandatory for more cars.
there was, uh, something in the law about if your car was over a certain age, like over twenty years old, you didn't have to get it done anymore.
And I think they're eliminating that, uh that loophole.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're eliminating that out here.
Yeah.
They're also talking very seriously about the thing called a dirt gun. Where they're, uh, looking at the emissions from the car using basically a spectrometer and looking at the, basically how much of what is coming out of the exhaust.
Kind of like a radar gun.
And ...
Oh, really,
You mean they could do that remotely?
Yes.
Yeah.
Do it remotely just looking at the, what they do,
they do several different types of things.
Sometimes they put a source light
and they look at the source light
and then as the car goes by, you can see the exhaust pipe and the source light behind it
and you can look at the emissions actually.
Huh.
And ...
Now where does the source light go?
Like across the street.
They'll set up like a trap or something like that in some sense.
Oh, I see.
And they're also looking at, uh, other, you know, ways of monitoring this and, cause they've found out something basically that, uh,
and a poorly tuned car can emit something,
it's an incredible amount.
It was like four hundred times as much uh, of certain pollutants, and it was like unburned hydrocarbons, then a properly tuned car.
Jeez.
And, and the idea being that if you just tuned up all the cars, well if you tuned up this ten percent of the cars that were producing like fifty percent of the, the pollution then, you know, you, it'd be one way to cut the pollution in half.
Yeah.
That's neat
But it's also been, uh, oh, you know,
everybody is talking about using more mass transient here
but it, uh, it's tough, you know.
Like I've, I've looked into riding the bus to work
and I can drive to work in, uh, and get there in twenty to twenty-five minutes over a very congested corridor. Which goes over Lake Washington on one of the floating bridges.
Uh-huh.
But if I, uh, if I take the bus, it requires several transfers
and it takes over an hour.
Huh.
So so it it's, it's not hard to see why, why I keep driving.
Yeah.
And they're ...
And you know, I feel guilty cause I'm driving a
Hi
Hi.
Uh, uh I, I should say something.
Uh-huh.
That I'm the, uh, least informed,
this is totally accidental that I have to talk about this topic.
But, it's, I'm the least informed person in the whole United States.
This has not been determined yet
but I, I, I've never read a newspaper in my entire life
and I've, I, I never watch T V news nor listen to the news on the radio unless I'm just happening to be listening to music and they slip it on in the car radio before I can turn it off.
But,
Any particular reason?

Huh.

Well, here in Seattle, uh, it's the air's getting more and more polluted.

We're, uh, we're in kind of a basin

And, uh, Seattle is on Puget Sound which is a inland waterway between two mountains.

And, uh, there's been a lot, a lot of growth, population growth around here

And, uh, it's, uh, it's getting worse

I think most of it is from cars.

Yeah.

Definitely.

Here in Utah up along the Wasatch along the western side of the, of these Rocky Mountains here, where a lot of the big cities are Salt Lake and Ogden and Provo

and Logan's up in the valley a little bit further north,

we get a lot of pollution

and it's like seventy percent of it is from cars.

Uh-huh

And, uh, it always really hits hard during the winter when we get the inversion

And when we get, get cold air down in the valleys and warm air up above

and it just sits and sits and sits

and we're starting to hit pollution levels now on the Wasatch front which match that of L A a few years ago.

Oh.

It's not, it's almost sad.

Because when I grew up here, it was just always the crisp air up in the mountain valleys

and now it's not in the mountain valleys.

Yeah.

Yeah,

I live in the, university district

and, uh, uh, it's supposed to have about the worst air pollution

I think probably due to, uh, a lot of students going back and forth to school.

Huh.

And then we're right next to Interstate Five also.

They're getting serious about things like, uh, mandatory,

well they've already passed laws where you have to get your cars checked for pollution if you're in certain counties,

emissions.

Oh, yeah.

have they started doing that yet?

Yeah.

They've actually started doing it down along the,

not in Logan up here cause we're doing a lot better.

We have a lot, population is a lot lighter up here.

We have that here

and, uh, they're, they're expanding it to, uh, more counties here. Uh, as the population spreads out

and I think they're also going to be making it, uh, mandatory for more cars.

there was, uh, something in the law about if your car was over a certain age, like over twenty years old, you didn't have to get it done anymore.

And I think they're eliminating that, uh that loophole.

Yeah.

They're eliminating that out here.

Yeah.

They're also talking very seriously about the thing called a dirt gun. Where they're, uh, looking at the emissions from the car using basically a spectrometer and looking at the, basically how much of what is coming out of the exhaust.

Kind of like a radar gun.

And ...

Oh, really,

You mean they could do that remotely?

Yes.

Yeah.

Do it remotely just looking at the, what they do,

they do several different types of things.

Sometimes they put a source light

and they look at the source light

and then as the car goes by, you can see the exhaust pipe and the source light behind it

and you can look at the emissions actually.

Huh.

And ...

Now where does the source light go?

Like across the street.

They'll set up like a trap or something like that in some sense.

Oh, I see.

And they're also looking at, uh, other, you know, ways of monitoring this and, cause they've found out something basically that, uh,

and a poorly tuned car can emit something,

it's an incredible amount.

It was like four hundred times as much uh, of certain pollutants, and it was like unburned hydrocarbons, then a properly tuned car.

Jeez.

And, and the idea being that if you just tuned up all the cars, well if you tuned up this ten percent of the cars that were producing like fifty percent of the, the pollution then, you know, you, it'd be one way to cut the pollution in half.

Yeah.

That's neat

But it's also been, uh, oh, you know,

everybody is talking about using more mass transient here

but it, uh, it's tough, you know.

Like I've, I've looked into riding the bus to work

and I can drive to work in, uh, and get there in twenty to twenty-five minutes over a very congested corridor. Which goes over Lake Washington on one of the floating bridges.

Uh-huh.

But if I, uh, if I take the bus, it requires several transfers

and it takes over an hour.

Huh.

So so it it's, it's not hard to see why, why I keep driving.

Yeah.

And they're ...

And you know, I feel guilty cause I'm driving a

Hi

Hi.

Uh, uh I, I should say something.

Uh-huh.

That I'm the, uh, least informed,

this is totally accidental that I have to talk about this topic.

But, it's, I'm the least informed person in the whole United States.

This has not been determined yet

but I, I, I've never read a newspaper in my entire life

and I've, I, I never watch T V news nor listen to the news on the radio unless I'm just happening to be listening to music and they slip it on in the car radio before I can turn it off.

But,

Any particular reason?