Acid Rain

[hurleyjd]

"Just like car engines, jets emit CO2, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and soot."

With the slow down in air traffic and automobile traffic and other manufacturing has it contributed to the rain being not as acidic?
I was just wondering why my grass has been growing like gangbusters with no added fertilizer. Still cutting grass for hay and still plenty grazing for the cows. Could the less acidic rain be the cause.

 

[1982vett]

Might be because you are getting rain and summer heat is subsiding....that’s the senerio here.

 

[sstterry]

I doesn't answer you question, but in our area we have has lots of coal-fired (now gas-fired) steam plants run by TVA. An old car or other metal will rust terribly in just a few years. I was in Montanna for a week about 20 years ago and behind the cabin I stayed in was an old 1940's car and the paint was still intact and could have been polished to look like new.

That is an interesting thought about the acid rain and grass.

I did find this:

As acid rain moves through the soils, it can strip away vital plant nutrients through

http://air-quality.org.uk/16.php