Bangkok smog: 50 drones to be launched spraying molasses to relieve smog

[Baggy]

1 hour ago, petedk said:

Why not get everyone in Bangkok to line up (say at noon), all face west, turn on all fans, hair dryers  and everyone blow as hard as they can in a westerly direction and blow the smog away.

If the big bad wolf can blow down the house of the three little piggies, than all Bangkokians blowing at the same time will create a hurricane.

Why hasn't some smart government official come up with that idea?

A very good idea, plenty of hot air around Parliament House.

[Syduan]

18 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Who are mol, and why are they spraying their asses?

 

Gangster girlfriends with spraying bottoms.

[outsider]

These gits don't get it, do they? They are fighting against Mother Nature. Whatever you put up against her is but a small drop in the ocean. Combating air pollution starts way before the haze arrives. When it is here and you're caught with your pants down, it is already too late. One hopes Thais and Thailand have learned a lesson this time and will be more diligent in preventing a repeat.

[kingstonkid]

There is only one solution.

 

They have to start managing the city better.

 

Restrict the number of high rises. Enforce a green space policy that builders have to incorporate green space and vegetation into their plans.

 

Raise the cost of parking in the city.

 

Establish a transit system with new cleaner burning buses that pick people up in certain areas outside the city and drop them off at a BTS MRT station.

 

Putting parking structures at these locations and make them free if you have a pass for the bus.

 

Restrict all heavy and big trucks to after hours only.  All deliveries and hauling to be done from 8 pm - 6 pm

Pull all the old buses off the road. 

Establish a system where vehicles, before they can be licenced every second year, must go through an emissions check.

 

 

The only immediate solution is shut down the city for a couple of days. Ban all vehicles from the road for 24 hours.  Establish a better method of traffic control gets the cops out actually controlling it.  Ban parking on major streets.

 

 

[WyrldTraveler]

If everyone had a small fishbowl with 'mosquito fish' the idea of spraying molasses wouldn't be quite so offensive.  (The environmental ministry knows what these are and might give them to you for free!)  At least it is not a toxic petrochemical...

[Kieran00001]

2 minutes ago, WyrldTraveler said:

If everyone had a small fishbowl with 'mosquito fish' the idea of spraying molasses wouldn't be quite so offensive.  (The environmental ministry knows what these are and might give them to you for free!)  At least it is not a toxic petrochemical...

 

Is someone offended by the idea of molasses being sprayed?  What do mosquito fish have to do with this?  Small fishbowls?  What?

[mserror]

This gets sillier and sillier.

 

Lots of material for comedians.

[eggers]

Still not addressing the main solution to problem of volume of vehicles w/ uncontrolled emissions... spraying water w/ or W/o Molasses, what's that supposed to do???  

[xylophone]

13 minutes ago, eggers said:

Still not addressing the main solution to problem of volume of vehicles w/ uncontrolled emissions... spraying water w/ or W/o Molasses, what's that supposed to do???  

Confirm that they are stupid and haven't got a clue.................oh, and very backward!

[hotchilli]

Prayut has vowed to crack the whip with any agency or official not carrying out real pollution control and taking it seriously.

Anyone involved with launching drones with water spraying as an effective measure should be sacked immediately as an embarrassment to the Thai people!

[Jadam]

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Water trucks are being prepared to clean roads and vehicles which might be affected tomorrow.

Surely the difference this makes will be negligible, considering there will be water trucks driving around all day spewing out more exhaust.  Not to mention we are burning fossil fuels to charge the batteries of the drones.

Oh well, as long as it looks like they are doing something it will make people feel better.

[Kinnock]

As soon as I saw the title to this thread I knew it was going to be a good read.

 

I was not disappointed - tears of laughter.

 

 

[Jimbo2014]

This and Prayer are sure to work! - oh by the way that picture is clearly NOT taken in Bangkok this week!  The Drones work best if they just spray the pollution detection machines for about an hour ????

[brain150]

1 hour ago, kingstonkid said:

There is only one solution.

 

They have to start managing the city better.

 

Restrict the number of high rises. Enforce a green space policy that builders have to incorporate green space and vegetation into their plans.

 

Raise the cost of parking in the city.

 

Establish a transit system with new cleaner burning buses that pick people up in certain areas outside the city and drop them off at a BTS MRT station.

 

Putting parking structures at these locations and make them free if you have a pass for the bus.

 

Restrict all heavy and big trucks to after hours only.  All deliveries and hauling to be done from 8 pm - 6 pm

Pull all the old buses off the road. 

Establish a system where vehicles, before they can be licenced every second year, must go through an emissions check.

 

 

The only immediate solution is shut down the city for a couple of days. Ban all vehicles from the road for 24 hours.  Establish a better method of traffic control gets the cops out actually controlling it.  Ban parking on major streets.

 

 

A slave calling for more slavery !!!

 

... Governments don't solve problems ! EVER !!!

Problem - Reaction - Solution

This is what this is all about ... and you fall for it ! Maybe thinking would help ?

[electric]

I can just see the headlines

 

Bangkok destroyed in failed experiment.

 

Vendor who stored rat poison in molasses containers suspected

[Cake Monster]

Seriously ?

[Otis Cribelcoblis]

23 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

Sprinkling a bit a sugar over Bangkok is not going to help the pollution problem..... talk about sugar coating a situation.  

It helps the medicine go down ...

 

Ask Mr. Muckel.

[Otis Cribelcoblis]

21 hours ago, fondue zoo said:

But... I just washed my hair.

 

here we go: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-tests-anti-smog-drone-aircraft/   - a great 2014 idea

 

Sugar and molasses are not mentioned in this article.  What about the diabetics?

[ThaiWai]

Using similar logic, to combat the city's rat problem 50 wild tigers will be released on city streets.

[Mikeasq60]

Thailand would you rather have smog or the invasion of Asian giant hornets ot will attract.  I'd rather have smog.  Molasses that's a new one 

[connda]

Lordy, was this taken from The Onion? 

[connda]

Given Thai's attention to maintenance, this solution will work until the sugar clogs up the spraying jets on the drones and the back-spray gums up the engines at which point they'll be abandoned.
Then there are the unintended consequences. 

[stud858]

I think there was a period in China during Olympic Games no cars were allowed on roads for a few days. The air cleared. 

I guess you gotta choose. Industry or fresh air.

 

[laislica]

23 hours ago, xylophone said:

It's because they are too stupid to know how stupid they look/are! 

 

 

Perhaps a little harsh, but sadly very true.

 

Unlike Westerners, I believe that Thai's are taught the most important and serious critical thinking from the earliest possible age.
That thinking extends to, and not beyond, what they would like to eat next.

Thus, many Thai's intellect is that of a child and there is no progression.

They live in a culture where barefaced lies are more acceptable than the truth.

They tell each other what the other would like to hear, not the truth.

In such an environment, how can anyone expect them to learn?
They never make mistakes and so cannot learn from them.....

No one dares to say another has made a mistake, one of the biggest problems in their culture IMHO.

To ask a foreigner for advice means that a Thai will lose face, because they (like children) know everything.

The biggest problem is of course: to lose face!

Thus, Thai's will do everything possible to avoid any confrontation or truth telling is there is any chance that such behaviour would cause another to lose face.

After all, do unto others as you would have them do to you!

 

 

Until Thai's can get over this, nothing will ever change.

 

However, Molasses may be somewhat less damaging than some of the Wests solutions to global warming and other planetary events?

 

https://www.wired.com/2013/08/project-west-ford/

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/08/geoengineering-global-warming-ipcc

 

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160425-how-a-giant-space-umbrella-could-stop-global-warming

 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1049517/global-warming-solved-climate-change-sun-blocking-chemicals-stratosphere

 

So perhaps the West is no better than the East 555

Let's not change the pollution we are causing.

Let's find some other way that let's uc continue as we are....

 

About as clever as a diabetic taking meds so he can continue to consume too much sugar

or perhaps a grossly obese person taking BP meds instead of reducing weight and becoming healthy again.?

 

Never mind the quality, feel the width 555

 

 

 

 

 

[MyFriend You]

     no one is this stupid............just disregard this crapola.

[chama]

This would be funny if it was not so sad. And this leadership wants to remain....

[rwill]

Sweeeet…..

I am leaving some flour outside to make molasses cookies.

[Redline]

15 hours ago, newnative said:

Why not drop the water on all the fires???

Or arrest the people starting them

[Gandtee]

They are going to deploy drones to drop pancakes to soak up the molasses.☺️

[Otis Cribelcoblis]

On 1/30/2019 at 6:43 PM, xylophone said:

It's because they are too stupid to know how stupid they look/are!

There is a major difference between being stupid and being ignorant.