Re: Diesel Question

"Bernd Felsche" <bernie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Athol <athol_SPIT_SPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Toby Ponsenby <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>> Kias solution to ADR 30 on their little Ceres trucks is an EXTREMELY
>>> restricted exhaust system.
>>> About 50 mm at the exhaust manifold down to 25 at the tail.
>
>>Ugh.  How small was that engine again?
>
>>> All carbon ends up in the sump:-)
>
>>Where it belongs.  :-)
>
>>> But it's easily fixed and believe it or not the engine doesn't blast
>>> noticeably more soot out the pipe anyway.
>
>>It's the nano-particles that you can't see that are doing the damage...
>
> Allegedly.  It's a hypothesis.  No more than AGW and us making a
> hole in the ozone layer.
>
> Data dredges have found a (weak) correlation between exposure to
> high levels of diesel particulates and cancers.  Uncontrolled
> "studies" and re-analyses with a middle risk ratio barely above
> unity.
>
> But the same population is typically dominated by those who can't
> afford proper health care, nice food, etc. Poverty gives you cancer.
>
> Of course, those parents who provide a sterile bubble for their
> offsprung, will see their children suffer and probably die from the
> normal stuff that nature puts their way once outside the bubble. The
> immune system has to be innoculated by as much of the prospective
> environment as possible, early in life.

Allegedly.  It's a hypothesis.