I take an ELITech TemTop LKC-1000S+ 2nd into London’s ULEZ Zone, including travelling on the London Underground Tube Network and on the Buses, plus stand on some of London’s busiest roads to get readings. We are constantly told that London has a toxic air health emergency that is dangerous to our health, and that we should abandon our cars and use public transport instead. However, the readings contradict this and some of the numbers will shock you!
This is Part 1 – in Part 2 I explore the Outer London Area where it is proposed ULEZ should expand to in order to clean the air. Watch now
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ULEZ Air Quality Pt2: Dangerous Pollution in London! Shocking Results Planes, Trains & Automobiles!
Oh yea take mass transit and breath that clean air!
VOC readings in the car went up because exhaled breath contains VOCs. Ditto inside the home.
Don’t fart ! 😉
Any plant with a scent, which is all of them to a greater or lesser degree, is emitting VOC’s. I would be interested to see what readings you get in a pine forest, or perhaps the Kew gardens hothouse. Pretty sure it would get into the ‘dangerous’ range on that meter.
Methinks the term “volatile organic compounds” is as useful a description, and as precise, as “carbohydrate” or “mammal”. Lions are dangerous, so all mammals must be contained? My auntie gets the vapours when hearing VOC, so let’s ban all organic smells, and bathe our sinuses in the wretched chemistry set that is her various ‘beauty products’.
Oh, and don’t eat peaches, the sugar will give you diabetes.
Gads!
Try in some eucalypt forests on a hot day !
You can almost see the volatile aromatic shimmering in the air.
Clears the sinuses for sure. ! 😉
The haze you see over a forest on a hot day is VOCs which water vapour will condense around and cause rain in the right atmospheric conditions, one of the reasons why rain forests are as wet as they are.
That is why the Great Smoky Mountains are called that. There is no real smoke.
How Did the Great Smoky Mountains Get Their Name?
Test around a cemetery and the ultimate WEF may become apparent.
If they were really concerned about improving air quality for Londoners, they ought to close down the Tube system. Completely and permanently.
ULEZ has absolutely nothing to do with improving London’s air. It’s all about imposing a Chinese-style social credit system.
And raising money – rather a lot of money – in the short term.
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And in the long term with the “pay per mile” plot that is unfolding!
They could always go back to horse drawn transport. The pollution in the mid nineteenth century in the square mile of London was noise from the steel rimmed wheels, the stench from horse dung and urine, methane and the associated unsanitary environment with flies and airborne respiratory diseases. They fixed the problem with the ICE powered automobile. I guess the EV is waiting its turn to kill Londoners.
If only I had learned something new
No shortfall of madness
“”Millions of families across Britain will be urged not to heat their homes in the evenings to help the Government hit its net zero goal, it has been reported,
A report by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) said people should ‘pre heat’ their homes in the afternoon when electricity usage across the country is lower.””
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12449529/Millions-Britons-urged-turn-heat-night-help-government-hit-net-zero-target-critics-brand-daft-idea.html
The CCC can ask what they like…
Very few people will obey, I can see some rather nasty interactions if anyone tries to enforce it.
I always think of them as the Eco-Loon Committee – they live in a world of their own imagination and wishful thinking
The Climate Clowns Committee is beyond parody!
As w it’s all these silly diktats, I will ignore and carry on being calm and use gas & electricity when I want to use it – I hope we have a long, dark, cold winter with power cuts galore due to nut zero policies, a shot of realism is what’s needed, especially with a general election next year
SK is a career politician. Can he remember when he last said or did something good and told the truth at the same time? To paraphrase Mark Twain, governments and their officers are merely temporary servants. It cannot be their prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, or decide who is good and who isn’t. Their function is to obey the orders of the people, and not invent lies and imaginary problems in order to raise money to line their pockets with.
The BBC, in Budapest for the World Athletics Championships, complained of ‘heat’ when temperatures there were around 27C according to a whole host of weather sites. The problem was really poor air quality in Budapest as it is on the London Tube all the time. The Tube has always had an air quality problem, very ably demonstrated in these videos, and very easily detected as you ascend or descend on the longer station escalators.
SK has added his own obnoxious and poisonous smell to the already toxic TfL mix. London must find a cure – preferably a permanent one via class action to recover fraudulent ULEZ taxes perhaps. We once got rid of the GLC – WTF do we need a Mayor for when both the last two have been proven liars?
Khan – like the rest of the elites – is an identitarian
Class divided
A little bit of ‘London History’ is useful in this horrible mess.
But first, some real London history..
Hyde Park 2007
(You will hate it = a great shame. It is Life on Earth. The sight and sound of your own heart, mind, body and brain ‘playing’ – in sync with 30,000+ others.
Not ripping each other off, lying, cheating and constantly telling them that everything they do is ‘wrong’. Not starting fights & wars over trivia, junk and irrelevance.
Yes BBC, I’m looking at you and Ukraine.
I was in/on Hyde Park 2007 – always find me beside the mixing desk and big sound monitors at such events.
(There’s room to dance out there
Kaiser Chiefs played the previous evening – it was like visiting the Terracotta Army.
DP’s crowd was like the Atlantic being not-so-gently stirred by Hurricane OmfgWe’reAllDoomed. seriously)
End of detour: How London History applies goes about 10 years (my guess, maybe longer) previously when ‘London Transport’ (now =TfL) were given as rollicking by our leaders concerning the hideous traffic there was in the city.
In no uncertain terms they were asked/told: ‘Could They Please Do Something’ about organising a decent Public Transport System.
You know, Actually live up to their name of London Transport?
And Do It Pronto
Bless them, they actually did. They got London ‘transporting’ and they did so by activating the huge number of ‘Red Buses’ they already had – sitting around and doing not a lot or cruising around on expensive and disjointed routes, running shonky timetables of little use to anybody.
Of course, all these old crates ran on diesel – BUT – they did the job and the fares were really inexpensive. On my 2007 jolly to London, £3 got you a (bus) ticket to ride that covered all of London – for the day you bought it through to 04:00hrs the next day
See the video and there he is at Marble Arch (Hyde Park), Oxford St/Circus.
(There’s a lovely little pub behind Piccadilly Circus (where he also went) – the barmaid always smiled and gave me free drinks. I’ve no idea why. She was so pretty, could have been one of my twins)
BUT, Oxford Street/Marble Arch/Marylebone Road(when he said ‘Baker St’) and Park Lane is just about The Intersection for every bus route in around Central London
Result: Oxford St at the time was basically a ‘car park’ for Red London Buses as the routes converged at Marble Arch then dispersed again at the far end of Oxford St.
And they all sat there with their engines running.
You damn near needed a machete to get through the smoke – you really did.
It choked you, hurt your eyes and filled your mouth with ‘bittiness’ somehow.
It is the memory of that which is propelling most of this ULEZ thing…..
Even worse was that Oxford Street was/is a magnet for tourists – folks came to Oxford St (Selfridge’s notably) for shopping from All Around The World ## and the last thing they wanted to see was all that effin smoke.
## All Around the World being a track on the video I linked
and as I just explained ‘that‘ was a creation of a panic stricken bureaucracy = one attempting to fix one problem and then creating another ever bigger and worse one when doing so.
Just exactly as is happening inside Climate Change.
The lovely ‘added touch‘ of course being the (nearly) mandated use (circa 2005) of diesel in small cars – supposedly because diesel created less CO₂
This is: Planet Stupid
2/3 of the time I have no idea what you are writing about and this is one of those times. I think reading what you post does help my brain keep active at interpretation.
I used to work at a Mercedes dealership when I was young. An old 1970s 240 D with dirty filters and strainer is not something you want to be stuck behind in slow moving traffic. So the moral is the road to hell is paved with good intentions and then used by opportunistic wanna be dictators
According to the real time air quality map on DEFRAs website, the whole UK has low levels, no need to worry – except ULEZ is about raising cash, not improving air quality – the London UG is far more toxic but Khan won’t go down that rabbit hole
No one drives their cars when the wind has a northerly component, once the air comes in from Europe lots of people get driving. And when the wind comes directly from the Rhur, millions of people get their dirty diesels out; it’s the only thing that could explain the deterioration in air quality.
Khans deputy leant on the air quality report writers to tweak it more negative, tells you all you need to know
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ulez-london-dance-frank-kelly-southwark-b2396614.html
40 single passenger gas cars pollute less than 40 seat diesel bus.
On top of this, most of the time a 40 seat bus runs only partially loaded, while single passenger cars never run empty for long.
In addition, single passenger cars travel point to point while busses travel only high volume routes. Meaning busses travel further and take more time to deliver the same passengers.
Moral: busses raise pollution as compared to single passenger cars.
Is there any data on how many legs there are on a commute using public transport. I would guess three might be the mode, paricularly on longer commutes.
Sounds like the London Tube should run some petrol cars on the tracks to clean up the air
Modern cars with 3 way (redox) catalytic converters have extremely clean exhaust. They reduce NOx to oxidize CO. Lots of polluted cities the air out the exhaust is likely cleaner than the air going into the engine.
The problem in that public transport vehicles slow down and stop. Need to remove brakes and quit using rubber, plastics and lubricants.
Scissor – absolutely right.
And modern EVs have brakes [and being heavier than comparable ICE cars, will certainly create as much, if not more, brake shoe dust.
Same for tyres.
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– Data? We don’t need no stinking data to make our environmental decisions! We know what is right and that is what we will do! –
Who would have guessed that government-recommended policies are bad for you health! Well done, Shazad Sheikh (aka, Brown Car Guy)!
But who exactly this B.C.G.? Is he some kind of sheik of Araby, or just some guy who happens to have brown skin and likes to talk about cars.
I’m no expert, but it turns out that “sheik” in Arabic means “elder” (شَيْخ ) and is not necessarily an official rank, could be a family name.
Not to be confused with the Pakistani actor Shazad Sheikh, if you google the name.
Just saying.
Pre-heat a home
200 liter plastic drums cost about 20£ ($25) each.
Buy 10 or 50 proportional to your home size and fill with clean water.
Warm in the afternoon sun, then move them into
living space before the cool of the evening. Your living space
will stay warm for awhile.
Of course, you can’t cook dinner this way. 🙂
You will need rollers on each drum, or plan B is to have an
equal number inside and out in the sun. Then pump the water
out in the morning, back in at dusk.
Then pump the water out in the morning, back in at dusk. How? With electricity? Oh the horrors!
No, you stay warm by moving dozens of heavy water barrels, problem solve when you have heart failure and die.
Green solution
the guy doesnt understand the device he bought, but its professional kit!
I note he shows the AQI index.
bueller?
Im betting the device doesnt calculate AQI.
calculating AQI requires you to monitor multiple pollutants over long periods.
for example PM2.5 requires a full day of collection.
other pollutants require multiple hour collections and averaging.
a typical air quality station is like $10000
He named his device, so I’m betting you didn’t bother researching it.
I see AQI in the very first bullet. I thought you were better than this. Now I’ll have to discount everything you post even more than I do now.
You thought mosh was better than this? Really? The English major who doesn’t comprehend capitalization or punctuation?
Yes, better, but that bar was low to begin with. I would have researched the device before commenting when I was twelve. I thought he was closer to fifteen.
English Major Mosher can’t even punctuate or capitalize his posts, let alone come up with anything cogent.
You really need to stop typing garbage you are totally ignorant of, moosh
That way we will never hear from you again. !
More conformation that climate alarmists, radical environmentalists and governments are liars, cheats and thieves.
It is maybe worth noting, The person who us bringing in ULRZ across the whole of Greater London Mayor Sadiq Khan, is also chief executive of the Transport For London Authority (TFL) that is responsible for Tube Transport Busses and mass transit systems in general in te Capital.
He will be well aware that the most foul air locations in the City are the places he is personally in control of.
His abject failure to achieve healthy air quality in his area of responsibility should not be overlooked.
The old biblical parable ‘Take the beam out of your own eye, before attempting to remove the speck from mine’ is appropriate I think when advising Sadiq Khan…
It’s a safe bet that airborne particulates in the Underground would be a workplace violation at any business.
Might it be worth testing in all the different tube lines and London commuter main line. Maybe (hopefully) the newer lines like Elizabeth Line are better than the older ones. Try standing on the platform near where trains come out of the tunnel as at Mile End.
The car company management have all gone woke.
I believe that vehicle-generated particulates mostly come from brakes and tyres, since exhaust systems emissions were cleaned up. Tube trains have pretty hefty brakes (and noisy too!) and I am sure that this is the origin of the high particulate readings, particularly as they were lower in the tunnel than in the station, i.e. after braking. Of course electric vehicles, that typically weigh fifty percent more than ICE equivalents, need heavier brakes and also put a greater load on tyres. London Underground trains (and electric cars) are driven by electric motors, they certainly have a distinctive smell, sometimes described as ‘ozone’ but I am not sure if that is real. Does anyone know if electric motors have any emissions?