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Air Pollution Basics Sulfur Pollutants Has the most important gaseous air pollutant in its group, sulphur dioxide. Once oxidized it then becomes sulphate which takes 4 days till it decomposes. This results in pollutants traveling far from where it was first emitted. These long traveling emissions then react with other chemicals in the air to form hazardous chemicals like ammonium nitrate and even acid rain. Although volcanoes and wildfires emit sulfur pollutants like sulphur dioxide, humans are responsible for more than 75% of the Earth’s sulphur dioxide annual emissions (Freedman, 2018). Human production of these emissions are caused by burning coal and petroleum based fuel sources. Toxicity by sulphur gases can result in shorter vegetation growth, and humans can develop respiratory issues and illnesses by short extreme exposure or prolonged minor exposure (Freedman, 2018). Nitrogen Pollutants Contain nitrogen gases like nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide, nitrous oxide, and ammonia. Nit...

 Alternative Energy: Wind Energy      Alternative Energy is commonly known as renewable energy due to industrialized countries not relying on them as their main energy source(s). Conventional Energy sources like renewable energy have been increasing in price, becoming more scarce by the year, and theoretically nearly entirely consumed soon. Meanwhile renewable energy like solar energy derives from solar activity which will last 4 billion years, which will outlast human sustainability. For this reason solar energy is considered as a “completely renewable” energy source. Emerging economies of developing third and first world countries are exponentially consuming energy in decades and will require more rapidly depleting fuel sources or create infrastructure for renewable energy sources. Unfortunately solar energy is expensive and most nations and their communities are making an easier transition to wind energy.      Wind energy is powered indirectly by so...