Goodbye DPF and soot?
I have said in the past that given the proper amount of time diesel engine manufacturers would come out with better ways to reduce emissions while making the engine more powerful and efficient similar...
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JRscooby wrote:NRALIFR wrote:
It can’t happen fast enough as far as I’m concerned.
This kind of thinking and innovation is what’s going to solve our climate/environmental problems, not the “Ban it (everything you’re currently doing) and cram it (my half-baked plan du jour down your throat) nonsense coming from politicians mouths.
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Strange. Most of what I hear from politicians in power is "IT AIN'T HAPPENING!"
What I don't understand is person 1 can be driving the car he can afford, maintaining it as well as he can, gets a ticket because of a little smoke. At the same time, person 2, that can afford to drive what he wants, spends more than person 1 makes in 2 years for a truck, then gets on the 'net and brags about modifying the truck so it no longer meets the emission standards.
Never seen this happen on the road and there have been plenty of times where I was behind a gas job that was spewing all sorts of smoke.
The other portion of this is who is making the regulation and depending on how you trust them. Many people do not even know what the regulation is yet they will blindly follow whatever the EPA states even though our regulations allow for more CO2 and CO than many other standards like the EU. The EU has a much higher NOx limit than the US which allows their diesels to run more efficiently and have much lower CO2 and CO limits which gas engines emit more of.
There is also the factor that many of these emissions like NOx and PM are only harmful in heavily populated areas where it does not have a chance to dissipate, but since it is a one size fits all system, those of us in rural areas have to abide by the same emissions regulation (with less fuel economy and a more costly emissions system) all because someone wants to live in a city. Why should I have to pay the price because others do not want to move away from their favorite metro area coffee shop. Another fact is that many of the new direct injected gassers emit just as much(if not more) PM as diesels, but since people cannot see it they assume it is cleaner.
