Certified Dirty Idle
Lead Driver
Joined: Apr 2011
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From: El Dorado, Arkansas
Nice sticker.
Funny thing is, there's no such thing as a (truely) "clean diesel." Maybe the more appropriate term should be, "not as dirty diesel."
There's nothing that burns that doesn't give off some form of pollution. Diesel fuel, when burned, gives off carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, nitrogen monoxide and nitrogen dioxide.
Fuel formulations and catalyst devices added to the exhaust system may reduce emitted pollutants but it doesn't remove 100% of them. It's still dirty and still pollution no matter what its deceptive title is, in being called "clean diesel." ....same for gasoline engines and anything else that burns. There's no truely clean burning anything.
Funny thing is, there's no such thing as a (truely) "clean diesel." Maybe the more appropriate term should be, "not as dirty diesel."
There's nothing that burns that doesn't give off some form of pollution. Diesel fuel, when burned, gives off carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, nitrogen monoxide and nitrogen dioxide.
Fuel formulations and catalyst devices added to the exhaust system may reduce emitted pollutants but it doesn't remove 100% of them. It's still dirty and still pollution no matter what its deceptive title is, in being called "clean diesel." ....same for gasoline engines and anything else that burns. There's no truely clean burning anything.
Fleet Mechanic
Joined: Aug 2014
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From: Charleston, SC
Not if you burn it to charge up an electric car. Then, Presto!, it's clean.
Lead Driver
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 6,399
Likes: 40
From: El Dorado, Arkansas
There you go, still dirty. There's the energy that had to be produced for the manufacturing that went into making the parts and assembly for the electric car, fuels that were burned to produce the electricity to charge the car and then there's the issue in the hazardous waste of the batteries that run the car when the batteries are no longer any good. You merely trade one pollution form for another, while still retaining existing forms of pollution.
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