[Stoves] Off-topic: News from Colorado: 'Rolling Coal"

[Traveller]

An infantile rebellion like the Earth Hour, and where else... ? (As
infantile as the Earth Hour). Click on the headline to see more pictures
and text.

"Last year, New Jersey became the first state to explicitly ban rolling
coal, going beyond the federal laws that already prohibit drivers from
tinkering with emissions controls. A similar bill is on the table in
Illinois, while Colorado and Maryland have defeated proposed bans."

Truck owners intent on rolling coal need only to turn to the Discovery
Channel reality show “Diesel Brothers” for guidance. The show, which has
more than 2.2 million viewers an episode, follows Heavy D, Diesel Dave and
a team of mechanics in Utah who “build the baddest diesel trucks ever seen
on the planet
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnoLkx33Un0&list=PLEq_6M2_yw5GLRL6VajVw0uQBZvm3i9xd>.”
Some of the modified trucks are offered for sale with no emissions controls
on DieselSellerz.com <https://www.dieselsellerz.com/>, a site affiliated
with the show.

The Diesel Brothers have alarmed health professionals. Even short-term
exposure to diesel smoke can increase the probability of heart attacks,
strokes, lung disease and cancer, said Brian Moench, president of the Utah
Physicians for a Healthy Environment <http://uphe.org/>.


Will WHO modeling of concentrations from emission rates - and BAMG
presumptions of linking concentrations to DALYs - work here? A readymade
experiment worth so many PhDs.

There's a Kirk Smith dictum “you don’t get what you expect, you get what
you inspect.”

All the assumptions behind IERs, GBD, and BAMG exercises are driven toward
one goal - to get what one expects (or demands the models to show so the
output can be marketed).

What you fail to inspect, or choose to ignore, ensures that you don't get
what you don't expect.

There's a lesson here for those who are willing to learn.

Nikhil
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‘Rolling Coal’ in Diesel Trucks, to Rebel and Provoke
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/business/energy-environment/rolling-coal-in-diesel-trucks-to-rebel-and-provoke.html?>

By HIROKO TABUCHI <http://www.nytimes.com/by/hiroko-tabuchi>SEPT. 4, 2016

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Rolling Coal at the Fair

CreditDavid Kasnic for The New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2016/09/04/business/rolling-coal-at-the-fair.html>

MONTROSE, Colo. — There is a new menace on America’s roads: diesel truck
drivers who soup up their engines and remove their emissions controls to
“roll coal,” or belch black smoke, at pedestrians, cyclists and
unsuspecting Prius drivers.
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