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I like this guy
He tells it like it is and explains it in a way even a moron can understand. He nailed it when he said DPF is not about climate change, but to reduce soot particles that can lead to cancer. The other parts of the system are for "climate" but the DPF, thats purely to remove soot. Soot from diesel doesn't climb up into the atmosphere like the other gasses, it stays down low where we breath it in.
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Oil jugs, DEF jugs, and failed truck parts in landfills and a host of other things caused by the emissions systems are horrendous for the environment and the water we drink. So it's not completely cut and dried. I could make a long list of why DPFs are bad. A guy can spin anything to say what he wants to say. That's just how the world works.
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I agree with WXboy. You can add the manufacturing of DEF liquid into that as well on the environment side. As far as collecting soot... maybe a filter the size of a DEF you can run a hose through. Bypass valve if it builds up backpressure.
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He is one of my favorites, but then again I am easily amused, hell @Overkill2 makes me laugh
Yeah buddy!
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Oil jugs, DEF jugs, and failed truck parts in landfills and a host of other things caused by the emissions systems are horrendous for the environment and the water we drink. So it's not completely cut and dried. I could make a long list of why DPFs are bad. A guy can spin anything to say what he wants to say. That's just how the world works.
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You can make gasoline, or rather convert plastic jugs and bottles made from petroleum back to gasoline and other fuels, and I do not know how this gets started, but that would certainly clean up our streets, land fills and oceans. I saw a story on a smart young man named Julian Brown from Atlanta who posts videos on this on his popular social media account and he started getting threats. Anyways, I have seen other people doing this so I do not believe he invented it, just built his own machine. It's stuff like this that can address the problem of way too much plastic in our environment and what to do with it so it doesn't end as garbage in the aforementioned areas. Apparently, he received threats and he went into hiding, but I'm not talking about that, just providing this information to the discussion. Imagine the potential if this went mainstream...
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Apparently Julian Brown is now missing. Hopefully he is in hiding somewhere and safe if this is true at all.
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Oil jugs, DEF jugs, and failed truck parts in landfills and a host of other things caused by the emissions systems are horrendous for the environment and the water we drink. So it's not completely cut and dried. I could make a long list of why DPFs are bad. A guy can spin anything to say what he wants to say. That's just how the world works.
PLASTICS, now That is a big issue and one so easily solved. Plastics are the easiest thing to recycle which blows my mind how much are in landfills. Other than separating the various types, all plastics can be ground and reformed into something else. Panels for homes can be made dirt cheap, Railroad ties, Decking, Fences, you name it, recycled plastics can be used for all of that, the only exception is it can't be used for food, only virgin plastic can.
What destroys a DPF is the fuel used. Crap fuel leaves behind deposits that wont burn off, eventually clogging the DPF. Good, Clean fuel will not. Another case where using a good additive will provide for a long DPF life. Yes a DPF properly cared for will last 1 million miles or more, been proven.
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Failed truck parts, especially SCR and DPF get recycled, not dumped into a landfill. No one dumps metal from wrecked vehicles in a dump, they ship it all off to refinery's and forges. DPF and SCR contain precious metals too, would be stupid beyond doubt to dump it in a landfill.
PLASTICS, now That is a big issue and one so easily solved. Plastics are the easiest thing to recycle which blows my mind how much are in landfills. Other than separating the various types, all plastics can be ground and reformed into something else. Panels for homes can be made dirt cheap, Railroad ties, Decking, Fences, you name it, recycled plastics can be used for all of that, the only exception is it can't be used for food, only virgin plastic can.
What destroys a DPF is the fuel used. Crap fuel leaves behind deposits that wont burn off, eventually clogging the DPF. Good, Clean fuel will not. Another case where using a good additive will provide for a long DPF life. Yes a DPF properly cared for will last 1 million miles or more, been proven.
PLASTICS, now That is a big issue and one so easily solved. Plastics are the easiest thing to recycle which blows my mind how much are in landfills. Other than separating the various types, all plastics can be ground and reformed into something else. Panels for homes can be made dirt cheap, Railroad ties, Decking, Fences, you name it, recycled plastics can be used for all of that, the only exception is it can't be used for food, only virgin plastic can.
What destroys a DPF is the fuel used. Crap fuel leaves behind deposits that wont burn off, eventually clogging the DPF. Good, Clean fuel will not. Another case where using a good additive will provide for a long DPF life. Yes a DPF properly cared for will last 1 million miles or more, been proven.
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It is my understanding that very few plastics are financially viable to recycle, hence the amount in our oceans, and the huge piles of it burning on islands. If memory serves when China was cleaning up for the Olympics in 2008 and stopped allowing used plastic to be imported the amount of plastics actually recycled was dramatically reduced. I would love some links if you have some as it has been a few years since I delved down this particular rabbit hole.
It's the market that the issue. the drawback of blending waste plastic is that it makes an ugly black tarry plastic that no one wants. Makes great park benches though.
https://evertrak.com/essential-benef...-for-railways/
75% can be recycled.
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It's the market that the issue. the drawback of blending waste plastic is that it makes an ugly black tarry plastic that no one wants. Makes great park benches though.
https://evertrak.com/essential-benef...-for-railways/
75% can be recycled.
https://evertrak.com/essential-benef...-for-railways/
75% can be recycled.
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There is so much today that needs to be changed back to how it used to be. We would all be much happier and healthier. Instead of prepared meals loaded with sodium and crap, learn how to cook. Instead of soda loaded with sugar, get back to drinking healthier drinks, you know, like Cap Morgan, and Jim Beam. Heck give the kids a glass of wine at dinner, then you wont need to argue when its bed time. Would curb teen age drinking, no thanks, I get drunk after dinner every night. LOL On a serious note though, Way too much stuff is wrapped in WAY too much plastic. People are also pigs, throwing their trash out the car window, too lazy to put it in an actual trash can, and it winds up all over the place. Two days ago I shot a beer bottle across the road with my mower. Always finding beer bottle and cans in the ditch along the road. I want one of those magic devices that reflects things back at those who throw them, forcefully. That would put an end to it.
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Good advice, and I’ve even switched from primarily beer to primarily wine to help the diabetes. I also have rubbish most mornings along the road, and once or twice a carload blocking the gate. Once it was a pile of metal and plastic, so at least I could sell some of it.