Chapter 1193 The Polluted Town
Nitrobenzene is a common chemical raw material that is flammable and explosive. It is also a precursor material for a variety of explosives. For example, the famous TNT whose scientific name is "trinitrotoluene".
Sodium chlorate is a herbicide that is also flammable and explosive. It is more effective when mixed with phosphorus and sulfur.
"Wyatt works in an agricultural supply store. He must have obtained the sodium chlorate in the name of herbicide. You can go there to inquire about the situation.
As for the coal and electricity company, what kind of person is Griffin? ”
Jubal felt a little headache. The combination of thermal power plant and explosives almost equaled a terrorist attack.
Alice looked at the information she had just compiled and read, "Larry Griffin, but he sold his shares in the coal and electricity company two years ago and now lives in Pelham, a suburb of Birmingham."
"Should we notify the power plant to be on guard?" Aubrey asked.
"Inform the state police to step up patrols and check suspicious vehicles on the road leading to the power plant." That's what he said, but Jack didn't think the Hammond brothers were heading for the power plant.
Especially Greg Hammond, who doesn't look like a brainless country redneck. The two previous murders are more like revenge with a clear goal.
It's just that the current case makes him a little unmotivated.
Before he traveled through time, Siris was engaged in a special environmental protection work. Although there were inevitable problems such as using excuses, bureaucratic inaction and even local protection, it was undeniable that it had great effects, including state-owned thermal power plants in various places. .
Unlike various environmental protection requirements in European and American countries that are limited to PPTs and slogans, Siris' thermal power plants implement the most stringent emission standards in the world.
What is now emitted from those tall chimneys is no longer billowing black smoke, but light vapor that is almost invisible to the naked eye. Wastewater and solid waste are all 100% recycled.
For example, the fly ash mentioned by Greg's wife refers to the fine particles obtained after the flue gas produced by burning coal in a coal-fired power plant after grinding coal into pulverized coal below 100 microns, and is captured by a dust collection device.
Every ton of standard coal burned produces approximately 0.138 tons of fly ash, which itself contains a large number of pollutants, such as heavy metals such as mercury and lead, as well as harmful substances such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
If it is directly discharged into the atmosphere, detection is relatively easy. However, if it is collected and then piled and buried, it may seem environmentally friendly, but it will cause serious salinization of the land and heavy metal pollution.
The usual treatment method is to recycle fly ash, extract valuable heavy metals and rare earth elements, and then make the remaining parts into building materials such as cement and gray bricks.
Therefore, for Seris, who is busy repairing the earth every day, fly ash is a very good building material, which can be used to build roads, bridges and dams.
For privately owned thermal power stations like those in the United States and the United States, burying them in a deserted place is the cheapest way to dispose of them.
There is no short-term problem with this method of treatment. As long as it is buried deep enough, it will not even be noticed.
But after ten or twenty years, the rain corrodes the iron barrels and the heavy metals in the fly ash gradually seep into the groundwater, and the pollution will continue to play a role in hundreds of years.
"It's really disgusting behavior." Clay said after checking the information.
Jack sneered, "Now you know why the fish and crabs in the Hudson River and the bays around New York are inedible, right?" From 1947 to 1977, General Electric dumped immeasurable amounts of industrial waste into the Hudson River. Among them, the insulating liquid from the transformer contains a large amount of polychlorinated biphenyls and heavy metals such as mercury and cadmium.
Its effect is similar to that of landfilling fly ash. A large amount of carcinogenic PCBs and heavy metal elements still remain in the river bed sediments of the Hudson River and its tributaries. The seemingly clear river water actually contains Sludge of various carcinogens.
They are now located in the town of Blue Springs, less than 10 miles away from Cleo. Soon the Hammond brothers placed more than 200 tablets they had stolen at the door of the town's elementary school.
This place is also in a dilapidated state, but compared to other towns the FBI saw along the way, it is slightly more popular. At least there are a few shops in the town.
The two found the agricultural supply store where Wyatt worked. The owner was a brown-haired white woman in her early forties. She looked very poor, but she was still busy carrying fertilizer at the door of the store.
After explaining his purpose, Jack asked straight to the point, "Ms. Barron, could Wyatt have access to the two chemicals I mentioned through your purchasing channels?"
"Of course, I can only afford to hire a helper like him now. Fortunately, there is no more work."
The female shopkeeper's tone was a bit unkind, and Jack could tell just by looking at the old storefront that the business here was not very good.
"Do you really think he can make bombs? Wyatt and his brother Greg are the most honest men I have ever met in the area. They don't smoke leaves, don't drink alcohol, and don't beat their wives."
Angry honest people are the scariest people, Jack complained silently in his heart.
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"Current evidence shows that this is possible. We know that there is a lot of anger around here because of the Griffin Coal and Electricity incident. Do you think Wyatt may have talked to others about topics such as his desire for revenge."
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"I never said it, but it's not surprising." The female shop owner blurted out, putting down the fertilizer bag in her hand and leaning against the pillar next to her, panting slightly.
Seeing the two FBIs staring at her, she continued to explain, "I mean, I know it's normal for him to be angry after losing his niece and parents, but who here isn't like that? People in this town People are angry.”
"How serious is the fly ash pollution here?" Clay asked. What they saw along the way was beautiful scenery of green mountains and green waters, which made him a little confused.
The female shop owner surnamed Barron obviously saw this, "Not only did they secretly bury fly ash on the land near the water source, they also turned off the filtering device from time to time in the name of maintenance and discharged it into the air.
This situation has lasted for nearly twenty years. If the power plant had not gone bankrupt, you would still be able to smell the smell of hell. ”
She said, waving for the two of them to follow her, and then walked to the side of the store. There was a large wooden board nailed to the wall, with various styles of old hats and stuffed animals hanging on it.
The female shop owner picked up one of the caps with a cow head LOGO and the words "Hackett Barron Farm" stitched on it, showing her nostalgia.
"My father used to have a farm nearby, but the cows died, so he hung his hat here and died of illness six months later."
(End of chapter)