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[WinterDeere]

To make CO2 there has to be 2 oxygens for every carbon. Where are you getting that? Is not in the fuel during regeneration because if the fuel had that much oxygen if sparked it would burn without air.

"Passive regeneration happens when heat in the engine builds to the point where soot, or carbon, is combined with oxygen to create carbon dioxide. Since carbon dioxide is a gas, it can pass through the filter."

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[ultrarunner]

Just caught a story in passing stating the wild fires of the last few years have counteracted years of emission reductions and have left some scientists in a quandary…

One Volcano or a summer where the street light turn on at high noon with smoke so thick it’s not possible to see down the road…

Someone said man plans and the gods laugh…

 

[WinterDeere]

Just caught a story in passing stating the wild fires of the last few years have counteracted years of emission reductions and have left some scientists in a quandary…

"counteracted"? The problem is in the false language, not the numbers. It's not an "either/or", but "in addition to" problem. Without emissions reductions, the emissions of the wild fires would be on top of a higher number, rather than being argued as in place of it.

Scientists deal in numbers, news headlines and gullible readers deal in narrative.

 

[Torvy]

Pebbles in a stream. The root problem is psychological for some people. They cannot come to grips with basic facts of life like how insignificant we are in the universe. The hubris to think we have enough ability to significantly change the climate.

 

[Paystar]

Up until 2005 diesel engine manufacturers made great strides in increasing the fuel economy and exhaust emissions of their engines. Unmodified diesel engines no longer made smoke like the old mechanically injected engines.

Manufacturers could have kept perfecting that even more, until the EPA made them pre-occupied with trying to make these ridiculous emissions system work to meet unrealistic goals.

The air would have still been cleaner today if the manufacturers could have just kept focusing on what they knew worked.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

In 1978 I bought a Datsun pickup.. I could cram my Yamaha 650 Special on one side, and my Yamaha 125 3 wheeler next to it. And I could chain the tailgate up over halfway.

I got close to 25mpg when unloaded.

 

[ultrarunner]

"counteracted"? The problem is in the false language, not the numbers. It's not an "either/or", but "in addition to" problem. Without emissions reductions, the emissions of the wild fires would be on top of a higher number, rather than being argued as in place of it.

Scientists deal in numbers, news headlines and gullible readers deal in narrative.

Competing Visions perhaps?

Forests should be untouched and left to nature is a popular belief of the late 21st century where logging in some cases severely cutback and controlled burns forbidden and heaven forbid clearing for a homestead.

I am required to pay a $400 permit application fee, wait 6 weeks while the neighbors are notified by postcard and neighborhood placarded to remove a planted backyard Walnut tree that after 40 years is just to big and dropping limbs.

So what do many do… they let nature take its course.

To some trees are to be worshipped and for others a lively hood.

I remember when Yellowstone adopted a policy of natural fires to burn…

Nary a word as to emissions, air quality etc…

Maybe injecting some common sense as to is the last 20% at whatever the cost even achievable when 80% has been reached?

It’s good to have options and too often it seems a one size fits all is the easy way out for regulators?

 

[Hay Dude]

I’d like to know who blew up the Nordstream pipeline.
They contaminated the atmosphere worse than anyone.

They should be captured & prosecuted for crimes against the environment.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I’d like to know who blew up the Nordstream pipeline.
They contaminated the atmosphere worse than anyone.

They should be captured & prosecuted for crimes against the environment.

worse than volcanoes erupting and spewing hot ash and gasses for a long time?

 

[Torvy]

worse than volcanoes erupting and spewing hot ash and gasses for a long time?

He did say worse than "anyone". As in, human contribution to pollution. Pretty sure we are not making volcanoes erupt, but if the wrong person reads this, that will be next. They already blame earthquakes on fracking. News flash...earthquakes pre-date fracking...and people.