Where has acid rain gone ?

Hey OP you're right. It's not a thing anymore, I was pretty young when it was going on, then all of a sudden "poof" like a lot of things as I look back.

It's all bullshit.

since they stopped pumping sulphur into the air like it's nothing..and cars now are alot cleaner, 20 years ago they almost all of them pumped out continuous black sooty smoke

Its twoo i tell you... Its very very real, my hypothesis is that its because desertification is the new star, ie its too warm to rain anymore...!

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still thrashing

china we dont MFG anything anymore

probably once SO2 was removed from fuels acid rains reduced drastically.

When the people became sensitized to the idea, they discontinued it and invented a different fear baiting tactic. Welcome to the world of "climate change". Don't worry, people are becoming numb to this idea and are starting to disbelieve it. There will be a new trendy death conception coming soon.

Doom on, as always.

No they put scrubbers which are just giant bongs on the coal power plants.
Ive had hole watch on jobs watching over scrubber as guys scraped what looks like 9inch thick meth off the scrubber floors with a bobcat front end loader into trucks.for disposal.nasty stuff.i think its refined back into garden sulphur fertilizer.
We still get some acid but mild really.my stuff rust just a little faster up here compared to my home town.im a 1/2 mile from coal burner unit that burns lignite/high sulphur.

dont suggest for a moment acid rain never existed lol or its like the climate change scare currently going on..acid rain was based on hard evidence, which is easily collected, tested,scrutinized and proven

They never got rid of so2 from fuel ... the so2 comes from the BURNING of fuel, this is why the horizon in London and every major city is ORANGE ....! Perhaps with the recent 'storm' cloud effect in the UK the other day or week, which was put down to Saharan sand surely they meant Spanish sand but hey..!

Of course Spain alongside most of southern europe is desertifying at an alarming rate.

Still with the increase of petrol burn and C02 one might expect an increase in Hydrochloric acid. Its a cover up of course - there is probably just as much so2 being produced today, as ever before, and acid rain will be just as prevalent imho. This amounts to the hold that the petrochemical comapnies have over media. I guess acid rain was just too politically incorrect.

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In organic chemistry, this is called a substitution reaction. In the presence of UV light, chlorine atoms will take the place of hydrogen atoms within the C-H bonds of methane to form C-Cl bonds. The remaining chlorine atom (since chlorine is a diatomic, Cl2) will form a bond with the displaced hydrogen atom, forming HCl.

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Im guessing it will be back soon...!


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