Eco-Friendly Fireworks For July 4

dsc.discovery.com:

Now, scientists are working on a new generation of kinder, gentler pyrotechnics. While still explosive and dramatic, these fireworks produce less smoke and use fewer toxic metals that end up in soil and groundwater.

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Comments

[curiousasheck]

How bout reducing the decibels of these explosions down to about 10DB while your at it?

[paulbikes]

bah, thats half the fun.

[BannedNBoston]

Blue has always been a hard and expensive color too produce in fireworks.
You see lots of green its cheaper.
I hope they can do a clean blue color.

[Dredd]

Not a bad idea. We need to give new meaning to independence.

http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/06/ecocosmology.html