I think it’s silly that liberals are getting all worked up about tuning of diesels. 🏭
Emissions standards are good from the factory but may not be practical or desirable in all areas. Some parts of the country have unhealthy air, and they have annual emissions inspections for automobiles and other restrictions. Plenty of other locations are rural and have relatively pure air, where the emissions equipment is good to have but not essential for clean air purposes.
Many diesel pick up truck owners install tuners and remove emissions equipment. Tuners can improve fuel economy, reliability and performance. They can make it better to tow heavy loads or for tractor pulls, or for the fun of rolling coal. It’s not to say stock emissions don’t have a place anywhere but for those who choose to disable controls outside of pollution control areas, so be it.
Some pollution crosses air basins and people drive from one community to the next. Even the most backwoods farm kid might drive into a city’s air basin with their dirtier emissions than stock truck. But that doesn’t matter because they are a minority, and their one vehicle is balanced out by many cleaner vehicles on the road. Most fleet vehicles will never be modified and even the majority of most truck owners will not be bothered to buy a tune or take off unnecessary emissions equipment.
And while you can model the impact of these emissions and make enormous sounding numbers on the impact to the environment, such numbers rarely take into account overall urban emissions or that many vehicles are operated outside of emissions basins. A much more important stragety should be to focus on new vehicles from the factory and emissions compliance in air basins that are currently not in compliance.
Now I understand that liberals and Joe Biden’s administration is looking for as many ways as possible to punish rural residents and conservatives who didn’t vote for them to the greatest extent possible. But government power shouldn’t be used to punish your political enemies.
President Biden will announce Tuesday that his administration will temporarily allow E15 gasoline — gasoline that uses a 15% ethanol blend that is typically banned from sale from June to September — to be sold this summer, a measure intended to help ease gas prices on a day when inflation hit its highest monthly figure in 40 years.
This will be an interesting experiment in air pollution control. Will it make air pollution worse in major cities from additional volatile organic compounds being released in the air?
Or will the impact be muddled from everything else -- such as less driving due to high gas prices, plus all the smoke from wildfires? Only time will tell.
It's for the venturi effect and allows the exhaust gases to be cooled before the. exit the tip, which then reduces the chance of burning someone or catching something on fire.
The 1,000 degrees fahrenheit exhaust during re-gen is pretty hot, with paper burning at around 480 degrees, or so we are told. I could understand why you might want to cool down. Diesel emissions technology really has helped to clean up the cities, even if it some places it's pretty silly like on farms and remote areas. But I guess you can't have one farm tractor to work the land in Southern California where pollution is a problem while in South Dakota there is little issues with air pollution.
Man’s ability to alter his environment has developed far more rapidly than his ability to foresee with certainty the effects of his alterations. It is only recently that we have begun to appreciate the danger posed by unregulated modification of the world around us, and have created watchdog agencies whose task it is to warn us, and protect us, when technological “advances” present dangers unappreciated—or unrevealed—by their supporters. Such agencies, unequipped with crystal balls and unable to read the future, are nonetheless charged with evaluating the effects of unprecedented environmental modifications, often made on a massive scale. Necessarily, they must deal with predictions and uncertainty, with developing evidence, with conflicting evidence, and, sometimes, with little or no evidence at all.
Not knowing the difference between carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide is the not knowing the difference between death and life. 🙍🏼♂️☠
Humans create both when they burn calories in their bodies. Carbon dioxide is the normal byproduct but any burning process has some incomplete combustion creating carbon monoxide including human cells.
Carbon monoxide is very poisonous to muscles including the heart so red blood cells have a strong affinity to it to purge muscles of it. But excessive carbon monoxide in red blood cells reduces the ability of them to also carry oxygen, which leads to suffocation.
