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Who cares, may be the most likely answer, but with most fireworks made in China, and the more complex chemicals used, would you want your kids down wind of that smoke?
Will fireworks shows go on during 'spare the air' days in your area?
Joe Sixpack has to run an exhaust scrubber on his Kenworth, but Disneyland can (pneumatically) shoot fireworks every day?
Are the emissions of fireworks dwarfed by 'flame broiled' burgers?
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Which is a clever way to say 'I don't really know.'
Fireworks emissions are mostly residue of carbon and sulphur; 2 moderately heavy elements that don't distribute far into the atmosphere. They settle out quickly and are not harmful per se, unless were talking stupid large levels. To my knowledge, there are minimal hydrocarbon combustibles to break down into lighter gases.
Vehicles of course, combust. And they are everywhere all the time, creating large total amounts of pollution. Some smaller sources of polluting releases don't have a very large overall volume to deal with, so they don't merit regulation (or have been overlooked). In these comparisons, sources are weighed on their total contribution to the emitted whole.
The stack scrubbers on trucks are a fairly recent addition to their rolling hardware because the carbon releases are quite large when considering all of the trucks out there. And they are everywhere at street level, impacting our immediate breathing opportunities -- not just some esoteric high altitude percentages. In the weighing of individual sources, it's not just how much, but where and when.
I repeat -- this is a stab, so hold the tar and feather pillows.
I remember reading (as you likely have) the US weather service recorded unusually high levels of sunlight intensity across the country on 9/12/01 and that the reason was the lack of airliners flying.
Since rain requires a dust particle to form drops (as you know) could fireworks be a source of 'cloud seeding'?
copper, strontium, cobalt, etc., etc.
Doesn't really matter were they're made... although, if memory serves, China sort of cornered the market a millennium or so ago...
all the best,
mrh
For the home brew crowd.
back when he was in New Mexico selling hydrogen fuel cell supplies.
The pretty colors are metals like copper, magnesium, strontium, barium, titanium.. etc. Even if it gave 10% of the people watching the display cancer, the air regulators, etc still probably couldn't touch them.
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