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===Location in relation to cities=== | ===Location in relation to cities=== | ||
It is not clear how close the ACCs are to a city's center or suburbs. If an ACC was far outside of | It is not clear how close the ACCs are to a city's center or suburbs. If an ACC was far outside of a city then it might be located in a [[Wilderness Preserve]], requiring constant decontamination work at the site. But if the ACC was smack dab in the middle of the city, you'd presumably end up with toxic waste (the product of decontamination) needing to be transported quite some distance in order to be safely outside the city. | ||
In a possible solution to the conundrum, [[Quotes/Speech#One way out|this unused dialogue]] indicates that the ACCs are ''underground''. This would keep the waste | In a possible solution to the conundrum, [[Quotes/Speech#One way out|this unused dialogue]] indicates that the ACCs are ''underground''. This would keep the waste separate from the inhabited area of the city, even if it accumulates at the site of the ACC. Judging from the end of {{C8}}, the clean air has to be driven by powerful turbines to its destination instead of simply vented into the open air as one would expect if the ACC is at ground level (one could imagine that pipes connected to these turbines run up through the city's foundations). Note that ambient street sounds (police sirens, car horns) can be heard in {{C7}} even though no city is visible, adding further evidence that the city being served by the ACC is much closer than you'd think from your surroundings. | ||
The ACC's intake vents, with the massive volume of air they're sucking in, would have to be raised well above the level of human habitation, and for that matter the outflow vents through which the treated air is 'belched back out' would also need to be placed out of a direct line with any people. In fact the ideal system for moving such a large volume of air would probably be giant diffusers with a fine enough mesh to stop anything from entering the ventilation system and also to break up the outward flow of air so it's not creating a gale-force tempest in the city. These vents could be building-sized; even at that scale, a few intake and outflow vent-buildings would be less obtrusive, ugly and noisy than if the entire ACC was placed aboveground. | |||
The structures in the background of {{Hover|the airport poster|image=TXMPPOSTER4.png|width=256px}} showing children in masks could actually be seen as these vents rather than the obvious interpretation as skyscrapers. These hypothesized vents would receive treated air from the ACC beneath them and, by facing in different directions, would spread it throughout the city in the form of a gentle fresh breeze. Intake vents could be built in the same manner, but perhaps around the outside perimeter of the city. This would separate the airflows from directly interfering with each other and, if the intakes faced inward towards the city, might also create a continual current via positive air pressure which travels from the outflow vents in the center of the city to the intakes on the perimeter. | |||
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