Word: sensor
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Pollution sensors are not unique to The Netherlands. Some U.S. cities, such as New York, have tried various types since 1967. IBM is currently working on a 103-sensor network for Pennsylvania's Allegheny County (Pittsburgh). None of these systems, however, can pinpoint the source of existing pollution...
...system is so precise that the sniffers can detect a single polluting smokestack almost four miles from a sensor. Officials at Shell's giant refinery in Rotterdam recently received a call asking them why the plant's No. 4 boiler was burning oil with an unusually high sulfur content. As it turned out, Shell had run out of cleaner fuel-and wrongly figured that its burn would pass unnoticed in Rotterdam's smoggy...
...certain number of critical functions at any single moment; the signals for the others are simply stored on tape for later examination. Furthermore, Kranz explained, even if some hawk-eyed observer had spotted the wild pressurization, his first incredulous reaction would probably have been to check for a malfunctioning sensor. Finally, no matter how quickly he responded, there was really nothing he could do. The pressure, Kranz said, simply built up too fast to be stopped...