Everybody's a smoker in SG now

Smoke smoke smoke everywhere...in SG as well as in Malaysia and Indonesia

PSI* must be the main topic that everybody is talking about in the recent weeks.
(*PSI = Pollution Standards Index)

Everyone is smoking the smog, complaining about the smog as well as irritated by the smog. Apart from the preventive measures which the governments are talking and implementing, without much success at yet, is there any sustainable solutions for the innocent 'smokers' now when the haze comes?  

A search over the internet reveals this: 

A Dutch inventor, Daan Roosegaarde, has come out with smog-free tower which essential remove the pollution and guess what...it produced DIAMOND as a by effect.

Here's a good presentation of Daan's idea, clearing explaining the concepts involved.

(Video credits to its owner)

And this is Daan Roosegaarde talking about this smog free tower at its initial stage.

(Video credits to its owner)

This is the actual tower built.

(Video credits to its owner)

Little girl and her 2 apples

(Picture taken from the internet)

Meaningful little story about a little girl and her 2 apples

Problem of SMRT A24

Took a production SMRT A24 recently and can't help but notice how many back facing seats there are in the bus.

Here are the facts:

SMRT Man A24 NG363F 

Standing - 80

Seating - 51 

8 seats facing backwards (15%) 

  

SMRT ADL Enviro500

Standing - 51 

Seating - 55 (upper deck)

Seating - 28 (lower deck)

4 seats facing backwards (5%)

I don't know how many people think / feel like me but for taking buses, but i don't usually like that to face the back for a few reasons:

a) I don't like the whole bus to look at me

b) I like to see what is coming and not what has past

c) I feel a little giddy when I am in the bus too long facing backwards (ok, its just me i believe) 

I understand that because of the A24 low floor design, and because of the wheel arch , there is no choice but to place the seats backwards in terms of efficiency, which is why I think the Enviro500 double decker or the Man A95 for the matter, is better, at least as the kind of bus i want to be on. 

Not only does the double deckers have more seats, there are less seats that face backwards. Good for long and comfortable journey rides, actually no, good for any journey, not just those long ones.

A couple of A24s parked at the interchange