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I remember a project in Scientific American many years ago which proposed using a distributed bunch of sensors using reverse-biased green LEDs to measure atmospheric pollution levels, but I can't immediately find it now.

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Hopefully you find it and let us know.

Forrest Mims was the first to propose using the LED as a sensor in the early 70s, not long after LEDs became common.

https://hackaday.com/2015/10/13/citizenscience/

Archive.org is the closest thing I have found for the old internet. If I'm interested in a topic the first I go to is archive.org.

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Probably something from Forrest Mims. I have his stuff going back to the 1970s and he was using LEDs like this for all sorts of communication and environmental stuff way back.

Yes. We both posted that he originated the idea at the same time.

Very probably. This isn't it, but it's very closely related: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/243581659_LED_sun_p...

Here we go! https://web.archive.org/web/19980131092505/https://www.scien...

Found via https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234345754_An_Intern...

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