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Apr 5th, 2024, 10:55 | #1111 | |
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Apr 5th, 2024, 11:07 | #1112 |
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Having the engine idle for an hour with no one in the car. You can't be in the car and sitting with your nose in the exhaust pipe at the same time.
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Apr 5th, 2024, 12:41 | #1113 | |
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If you talk about particulates in ppm (parts per million) then that is their concentration - not their quantity (or mass). Refering to them in g (grams) is their mass. When considering the impact to health whether through direct toxicity or aggrevation of a medical condition such as asthma, it's the concentration (ppm) that matters. To say 0.08g equates 80ppm without specifying the volume of air to which that mass has been dispersed into and the particle size is meaningless, it's like saying adding a kilogram sand into a bucket will raise the level of sand in that bucket by 5cm. You can only say that if you also know the density of the sand and the volume in the bucket. How come we didn't all die in the post war era when we all had coal fires and shops, offices, factories, hospitals and schools all had coal boilers?
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According to TFL, little is known about the health issues that this dust can cause. I'm not a Scientist or a medical expert, but I don't think it would be good. Silica dust for example isn't good, I don't think brake dust would be either. In saying this, above ground where the pollution is actually lower than the underground, the vast majority of people are driving "compliant vehicles" because of ULEZ zones to lower emissions (and ultimately PM's)... PM's has gone up above ground since the expansion of ULEZ. Then there's those that got rid of their cars completely and now rely on public transport like the tube. Guess what? In doing so, the air they're breathing is actually dirtier!
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Apr 6th, 2024, 00:23 | #1115 |
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In our village, we heat with coal and we burn bonfires. Few of us complain about motor vehicle pollutants. Those who do are newcomers who commute to London and use the Underground. It's a different smell, isn't it? Must be worse, surely?
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Apr 6th, 2024, 07:54 | #1116 |
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I think the rules here in Straya aren't as strict as there, but I know stuff like a recent Audi or BMW diseasal gerlytruk is pretty stinky if you get stuck in the exhaust flow. The coffee-shop around the corner here near home has perpendicular parking, the occasional diseasal-vehicle operator backs in, and someone in a very-recent BMW x-something was backing-in this morning & it was as stinky as normal. Diseasal people are always reversing in, it's like they don't know how stinky they are!
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Apr 6th, 2024, 09:22 | #1117 | |
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Everytime I get on my Massey 135 I'm reminded of what diesel engines smell of, and modern diesels smell nothing like. I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing - but it is a thing. Who remembers when the first petrol cars with catalysts used to smell like rotten eggs when worked hard?
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Apr 6th, 2024, 09:25 | #1118 |
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Indeed.... we live in a village, and very occasionally we get the odd new townie who tries to lecture us about our wood burning stoves and how the selfish tractor drivers are slowing them down whilst they go about making next years food.... and then it gets really funny about now when they start muck spreading in the fields!
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Apr 6th, 2024, 10:34 | #1119 |
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The smell from a combine used to take me back, loved it. Doesn't smell the same now. Same as when I used to go fishing, the early morning smell of diesel and sea water is so evocative. That's probably gone now as well. Bastards.
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Apr 6th, 2024, 10:55 | #1120 |
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My favorite is 2 stroke.... was walking with the wife down a country lane last summer on a perfectly still day... some old motor bike farted past and the smell - countryside and 2T - was glorious. That was in the days when you were tuning carburettors and you could smell if it was too rich.
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