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

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On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 9:53 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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