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Severe Smog in Beijing Prompts Smog Research

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @11:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the if-you-could-see-me-now dept.

hankwang writes:

"For the past couple of days, China's capital has been suffering under severe smog, leaving the sun and skyscrapers barely visible. The highest concentration of small airborne particles (PM2.5) was 0.50 mg per cubic meter, a factor 20 above the Word Health Organization's safe limit. Scientists went as far as comparing this to a nuclear winter. The worst seems to be over for now: today, the monitors are reading 0.180 mg/m3, only a factor 7 above the WHO limit.

The Chinese smog seems to behave differently from the smog in Europe and the US. Existing scientific models developed in the West do not work well. To improve the models and understanding, plans are underway to build a 600 cubic-meter (that's 21,000 cubic ft or 160,000 US gallon) transparent dome as a smog chamber."

[NOTE TO EDITOR: I can't get slashcode to display the mu symbol, so I converted to milligrams] [Ed's Note: Thankyou - but what is it in firkins?]

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by stormwyrm on Monday March 03 2014, @12:21AM

    by stormwyrm (717) on Monday March 03 2014, @12:21AM (#9901)

    Apparently it's possible to make both SN and the old site display μ and some other non-ASCII characters by setting character encoding to ISO-8859-1 before you do post or preview. Just goes to show that Unicode support is still broken in every fork of Slashcode so far.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by ls671 on Monday March 03 2014, @06:21AM

    by ls671 (891) on Monday March 03 2014, @06:21AM (#9969) Homepage

    You guys complaining about that unicode support must be from the new generation.

    I don't even know how to enter those chars/symbols with my keyboard although my keyboard supports 2 languages. I do like in the old days and I just fully spell the damn thing for symbols.

    You can also insert a gif image of the symbol like we use to see on so many technical web pages ;-)

    That was the good old days ;-)

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    • (Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Monday March 03 2014, @07:39AM

      by stormwyrm (717) on Monday March 03 2014, @07:39AM (#9985)

      I wonder if HTML entities to produce other Unicode characters work. Let's see: 日本語の文字を使って見る。

      Seems to work, but I had to go to ridiculous lengths to make that happen.

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    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @07:56AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @07:56AM (#9994)

      You use (compose), m, u. Assuming you use Linux, that is.