Originally Posted by truckeez
(Post 576190)
Too bad they didn't back Jedd Clampett when he wanted to put the big fan in the san Bernadino mtn's to suck out all the smogg..................... But really, The state has to do what it has to do to get bretheable air--They just ought to buckle down much harder in the industrial polluters in the big dirty--flyin into burbank is like landing in a layer of real dirty cotton wadding........
Our trucks contribute very little to the air pollution even when they do smoke. The smoke is almost completely solid materials that float back down to the ground. It's essentially ash. In the big rig world of pollution and law enforcement it is the excepted rule that all smoke must clear in the air within 3 seconds to be exceptable. I would have to assume that the same standards are being used. |
Originally Posted by Uncle Bubba
(Post 576193)
Although you are right in the fact that they need to clean it up and I'll be the first to admit that I have always worked hard so that my truck didn't smoke even though we have no testing, they really do need to do they're homework on who is polluting the air.
Our trucks contribute very little to the air pollution even when they do smoke. The smoke is almost completely solid materials that float back down to the ground. It's essentially ash. In the big rig world of pollution and law enforcement it is the excepted rule that all smoke must clear in the air within 3 seconds to be exceptable. I would have to assume that the same standards are being used. |
I would have to be convinced that much of this particulate actually makes it into the upper atmosphere adding to the greenhouse gasses. Between heat, humidity and rain it seems to me that it would be flushed out of the air in pretty quick order. But I'm also no scientist either.
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Particulate matter is horrible on the lungs; asthma, lung cancer, atherosclerosis, bronchitis, et cetera. Particulate matter from Diesels is just as bad as from gasoline engines, much higher in volume and quite possibly worse. Global warming from PM emissions is a twentieth or thirtieth concern at best.
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