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

[Cookswell Jikos]

What a story....similar to this gem is a story in todays newspaper
regarding air pollution from bad fuel rejected by the EU and dumped in the
African market -

''The high-sulphur fuels also have a knock-on effect, rapidly destroying
emission-reducing technologies in vehicles, according to Rob de Jong, the
head of the UNEP transport programme. “So if you buy a vehicle that’s a
couple of years old and import it into some of the African countries, the
technology in there – sensors and filters – all gets spoilt, and these
cars, which are potentially very clean, are destroyed in a couple of tanks,
and for the next 20 years will be belching smoke. It’s important to
understand the tragedy of this,” he said. This in turn increases emissions
of fine particulate matter, which can lodge deep in the lungs, causing
cancers and other health problems.
Read more at:
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000217548/dirty-diesel-rejected-in-europe-exported-to-africa
''

I certainly hope something like this cannot happen with LPG cooking gas or
that all those generators in Lagos and Accra are not pumping smoke into the
kitchens with induction stoves :(

Teddy



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On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Traveller <miata98 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> --------------------
> ‘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
>
> Continue reading the main story
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/business/energy-environment/rolling-coal-in-diesel-trucks-to-rebel-and-provoke.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=0#story-continues-1>Slide
> Show
> SLIDE SHOW|7 PhotosRolling Coal at the Fair
> 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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