{"id":5914,"date":"2013-11-08T15:34:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T22:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/11\/08\/emphasis-on-european-sewers\/"},"modified":"2013-11-08T15:34:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T22:34:54","slug":"emphasis-on-european-sewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/11\/08\/emphasis-on-european-sewers\/","title":{"rendered":"Emphasis on European Sewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/emphasis.gif' title='Emphasis'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/emphasis.gif' alt='Emphasis' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a new technology being tried out in Europe. It uses technology to detect homemade bomb-makers by sensing chemicals in the air and in sewers in urban areas. It is sponsored by the <strong>European Union<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\/2013\/11\/07\/using-sewers-to-sniff-out-bombs\/\">an article<\/a> on <strong>Fox Business<\/strong>, the technology works thus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sewer-based sensing system would use electrochemical water- and air-sampling to detect certain chemicals typically used for home-made bombs as they travel through the waste stream in urban areas.<\/p>\n<p>. . . <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Terrorism and IEDs are never going away so we need to be able to screen people more effectively.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click on the image to enlarge. <\/p>\n<p>One wonders whether the <strong>NSA<\/strong> isn&#8217;t already doing this in the US . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new technology being tried out in Europe. It uses technology to detect homemade bomb-makers by sensing chemicals in the air and in sewers&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-war-on-terror","category-technology-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}