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Report them for breaking the environmental laws? I thought what they did directly violated them.
no. he was saying they would detect it and only take action at the last moment to avoid hitting the limit. Like they could have set it up to reduce it any time it was unusually high to head it off before it even got close. Obiously you don't want to be constantly spraying it but you could do it when it was like one or two standard deviations above norm.
Then why did they need the software in the first place? Just for marketing or showing fake "environmental progress"?
they needed the software to be in compliance at the very slimest margin the software and sensors would allow for. The goal was to pollute as much as they are allowed to and not a drop less.
I get it but why did they want it to have the early alerts and stuff? But I guess it makes some sense to detect emergencies and analyse the situation better.
For mitigation efforts. This chain has been long but I recall the original replier mentioned spraying it. From what I know im guessing the detector is for particulate matter from piles of mining crap leftovers and they spray it so the wind won't blow it around but they don't spray it until they have to because money. honestly we need @pHr34kY@lemmy.world for the specifics
This was at a stockpile yard at a port where raw mined materials were stored before being shipped.
Basically, if the wind was blowing strong enough in the right direction, it would blow over a nearby town. The problem wasn't really knowing where the dust was going, but where it was coming from. Accurate monitoring could detect exactly which pile the dust is coming from, so you could direct all the water to the source. It's impractical to wet the entire yard, as it's huge.
Not if they stayed under the limits.