iamnotazombie44
iamnotazombie44 t1_jcgak77 wrote
Reply to comment by 3226 in Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply. by chrisdh79
This is all tragically true. I'm a chemist from across the country and I was crying for those people and that area the day I read the manifest. That area is fucked.
I wanted to report that you can detect these compounds an organo-halide detector, they are relatively cheap sensors to detect refrigerants. They work on detecting the X - C bond, where X is F, Cl, Be, or I.
It's a pretty common for refrigeration people and in water testing. They are not cheap, but not prohibitive either.
iamnotazombie44 t1_iy09lw8 wrote
Reply to comment by skittlesmcgee33 in News Release: NREL Creates Highest Efficiency 1-Sun Solar Cell - 39.5% efficiency by TimeSpentWasting
Yeah, IMM tech at NREL is something nutty.
iamnotazombie44 t1_jchk5kr wrote
Reply to comment by findingmike in Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply. by chrisdh79
Yeah, they are.
Vinyl chloride has basically permeated the entire town. It will acidify the soil while releasing toxic phosgene and carcinogeninic vinyl compounds as it breaks down for years to come.