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Subject: [OM] Re: way [OT] diesel engines.....
From: Dirk Wright <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 14:40:23 -0500
>
>Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 16:35:24 +0000
>From: "Hilary Stone" <Hilary.Stone@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [OM] Dear John O' Regan Re Gas prices
>
>This cvan't go unchallenged. Diesels do emit largish particulates but prett=
>y
>small numbers of the smaller particulates. Recent research has shown that
>uit is these smaller particulates which less healthy
>

John was correct. There is a chemical, can't remember the name, that is in 
diesel exhaust that is an order of magnitude more carcinigenic than dioxin. 
It is in fact the most carcinigenic material known. It was discovered a year 
or so ago by a Japanese researcher. While the quantities of this chemical are 
small in the exhaust, it doesn't take much to really cause problems. The soot 
has been shown to actually *reduce* rainfall, which is contrary to what you 
would normally think. I'm waiting for fuel cells to become cheap. Hope that 
happens before I die. 
-- 
Be Seeing You.
Dirk Wright


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