The BBC is reporting that there are plans afoot to clear Delhi's terrible smog by mounting retired jet (tim-ex?) engines vertically by power station chimneys and using them to blast the fumes through the inversion and into the cleaner air above.
Can jet engines clean up Delhi's foul air? - BBC News
Would/could this work?
Jet efflux seldom reaches more than a hundred meters or two (?) beyond an aeroplane - would this be enough to break through an inversion?
How deep is the inversion in Delhi?
If you did break through would the smog you lifted just sink back down, or could it be heated enough to mix in above the inversion?
Help pollution by burning many hundreds if nor thousands of tons of jet fuel per day?
I guess they wouldn't be using the J58s they have blithely drawn in the graphics, but this hardly seems a practical idea even with a big fan.
Any Engineering based opinions on the viability of such a plan?