Killer Ozone?

Tufriast writes "This will make you think twice about an H2... The BBC News has reported that the death toll in U.S. cities might have a correlation to the ozone levels in them. The article mentions several major U.S. cities, and notices the upward trend in premature deaths as pollution levels rise. The results can also be found in the Journal of the American Medical Association."

Comments

What?

[GigsVT]

Why would I think twice about "an hydrogen"?

H_2 or O_3?

[benhocking]

I do not think that H2 means what you think it means.

H2 vs O3..

[adeyadey]

Excess free H2 would indeed be a killer, as the Hindenburg demonstrated, although I think you mean O3..

Of course there would be lots of other things happening in the cities where O3 was high - other pollutants, stress, and things that make people ill - now if the research factors that out, it might be onto something.

Excess H2 in US cities would be a GOOD thing - if the USA was to commit to widespread usage of Hydrogen power generated from renewables (it probably actually has enough wind/solar resources to make ALL the power it needs, if some niceties like infrastructure are sorted.. see www.awea.org) it would not have a lot of death from O3, or need to fight nasty wars in the middle east.. but then you voted JR Ewing back in, didnt you..