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How London Government Overcome 1952 Dead Smog

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Smog disaster hits London during December 1952 to March 1953 in Golden Jubilee time of Elizabeth II called killer fog. This Smoke from many resident chimneys enter like water into cold stuck in the air. The killer fog killed the people, 12000 people, most of them are child and old people by breathing issues i.e. asthma and pneumonia, damage to heart and lungs. UN controlled industry discharge stayed in the city air with smoke and domestic coal fires. This situation becomes serious when high-pressure weather system moved over London and remained for several days and this smog came close to ground level. This situation reduces the visibility of the zero by the third day. Education, airport, transportation, and business activates of the London city close. The exterior of the building wears the black smog suit even inside the theaters the movie screen is unable of visible. In December 1962 also died 750 another people due to the black smog. The only action take in London was t...

Solar Global Data: Where to Find It ??

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When someone talks about renewable energy sources the first energy came into mind is solar energy. Some university students and researchers select this field for research. However two topics are mostly selected; one is solar power plant site selection and other is solar potential calculation of specific areas. The problem associated with this topic is that the students and researchers face difficulty to gain solar data . In this blog, I would like to share a data source where every student/researcher easily find the required data in GIS format. The most important thing is that this data is free of cost and anybody can download it easily . The website link is  http://globalsolaratlas.info/ The data provided on this website is provided by The World Bank Group in the form of atlas that is solar global atlas. The provided data is in two raster formats, GeoTIFF and ASCII grid having spatial resolution of 250 meters.  The following mentioned data layers are ...