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As a medical professional, bay area resident and citizen interested
in stopping acid rain and global warming I urge the board to
regulate industries that produce nitrogen dioxide and reward those
businesses which promote zero-emission technologies.

Fact is 10% of earth's nitrogen dioxide is man-made and is
generally concentrated in urban areas- where human population is
most dense.  

Man's contribution of nitrogen dioxide is known to give
photochemical smog its yellow-brown appearance, degrading the
aesthetics of our living environment and hampering visibility for
birds and other flying creatures and technologies. 

Nitrogen dioxide is, under the right conditions, also a precursor
to acid rain, which discharges acid into the soil, where it is
sequestered, consumed and henceforth injurious to both plant and
animal-life.  And because we, as humans depend upon both for our
livelihood, we too will be further maligned.

It is understood that the temperature at which a fuel is combusted
is the key factor in determining how much nitrogen dioxide is
released.  Therefore, please promote:

1. low excess-air firing

2. low-combustion temperatures

3. use of low-nitrogen fuels (such as natural gas and light
distillate oil)

4. staged combustion in which localized fuel-rich conditions are
created where both thermal and fuel nitrogen-oxide compounds are
minimized

5.  use of low-nitrogen oxide burners and fluidized-bed
combustion


As we have come to learn, once some things have been set in
motion, they are hard to stop, and many times costly and even
impossible to reverse.

Please vote strong for measures to limit nitrogen dioxide
production as well as other gases known to pollute the land, water
and soil for the sake of the citizens and the environment which
sustains us.

Please commit yourselves to voting for cleaner technologies and
promoting zero-emissions technologies.

Thanks for your time and attention.

Sincerely yours,

Behrouz Farsi
San Jose, CA resident