“A developer is a person who wants to build a house in the forest. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the forest.”
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Battles with motorists for the environment never aroused enthusiasm among drivers. But they have been going for a long time. Even in the last century, when no one had really heard anything about Euro norms, patrols with gas analyzers appeared on the roads. Like, kindly, push the machine here - now we will measure what is happening in her exhaust pipe. And if something is wrong, then expect trouble …
The people got angry, twisted the screws on the carburetors, paid money … But deep down I understood: the cars really stink (especially strangers). Someone was embarking on a revealing muhlezh, disconnecting the crankcase ventilation hose - let it stink “down”. However, the era of foreign cars and catalytic converters was already on the way.
Men with gas analyzers, able to turn quality and quantity screws, slowly disappeared as a class. The roguish part of the population has mastered the processes of breaking through neutralizers with a crowbar and the installation of electronic trompe l'oeil, issuing the necessary numbers. But then a worldwide scandal erupted.
And not with us, but in the prosperous USA and then in Europe.
Europe and the Euro - where does that come from?
“ The most effective way to eliminate toxic waste is to revise the classification of non-toxic waste.”
2nd rule of environmental protection (from the Network)
Where did these Euros come from? They were predictable: doctors long ago spoke about the harm that automobile exhaust does to our health, or rather, the nasty things contained in it, such as hydrocarbons (CH), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NO x), and soot particles. Well, if these nasty things are really harmful, you need to reduce their number.
So far, everything is logical. But to what extent to reduce? Even the most stupid engineer knows that it is impossible to reduce emissions to zero, in principle, if you are dealing with an internal combustion engine. The key word is "combustion." The composition of the fuel itself is quite complex, and in the air, in addition to oxygen, it is full of nitrogen - the most common gas in our atmosphere. As a result, all kinds of chemical combinations are formed. I note that even if pure hydrogen is burned, but not in pure oxygen, namely in the air of the earth, nitrogen oxides will still appear.
So where to reduce something? Instead of engineers, the decision was made by environmentalists. They estimated the number of cars, looked into the directory with maximum permissible concentrations (MPC) of all kinds of nasty things in the air, and stated that they knew the contribution of auto exhausts to air damage. Then they came up with norms and clothed them in the form of law.
Automakers grimaced, but trumped silently: nowhere to go. Gradually, all the machines acquired catalytic converters, sensors, electronic pedals, control programs, etc. The cost jumped, and the dynamics dipped: computers stopped thoughtlessly pouring fuel into the combustion chambers without consulting the sensors. Slowly introduced Euro-4. It would stop here, but …
Urea hit in the head
Cleansing a territory from pollution leads to equivalent pollution of another territory
3rd rule of environmental protection (from the Network)
Razvodilovo began with the introduction of Euro-5 and -6 - especially for diesel engines.
Engineers asked officials: how to do this? They waved away - work, they say … To begin with, they launched all sorts of tricks such as additional tanks with urine (sorry - with urea), as well as particulate filters with its indispensable periodic afterburning in the converter. Such a brand new machine is driving along the autobahn and suddenly - once: a “cloud” behind … And what did you want: afterburning is an enrichment of the mixture plus an increase in other emissions and fuel consumption.
But what about all sorts of checks on smart stands? The engineers looked at each other and quickly found a "solution." After all, when a computer commands the machine, it is not difficult to build a control program so that the smart car itself will figure out where the highway is and where the drums of the stand! In other words, I understood where you can smell bad, and where you should be patient. Ecologists and officials were shown the ideal bench test results, and on autobahns, the cars successfully recouped, stinking to the fullest. The Germans were the first to fall into deception (and first, to the USA: it successfully fell into the line of the fight against competitors!). The term “dieselgate” went down in history - someone was kicked out, humiliated, fined and even imprisoned. But since the air didn’t get any cleaner, they decided to fire … all the creations of Rudolf Diesel!
The idiocy of the verdict against diesel outraged many. We read the inscriptions: “Crazy MACs for NOx - fix it!”, “Save our jobs!”, “Immediately stop all car bans”, “Stop the green killer jobs!”. The idiocy of the verdict against diesel outraged many. We read the inscriptions: “Crazy MACs for NOx - fix it!”, “Save our jobs!”, “Immediately stop all car bans”, “Stop the green killer jobs!”.
They explained to the people that the culprit was found and must be destroyed as a class. European mayors and other mayors, one after another, began to declare that diesel engines were not allowed in civilized places. The mass lay man had to remember the next image of the enemy. But then it suddenly turned out that there was no particular harm from this very soot with its rather large particles … But the invisible muck that the exhaust pipes of gas-fired ICEs with direct fuel injection spew out is not accidentally called nano-dust. And if this rubbish penetrates the lung tissue, then get ready for an appointment with an oncologist …
The meaning is clear: they say save the diesel! The meaning is clear: they say save the diesel!
Taxes, excise taxes and another lie
The Germans were again in the spotlight. The German "Spiegel" said that Daimler, BMW, Porsche, Audi and Volkswagen specifically decided to "hand over" diesel engines to quietly trade gasoline cars, which are even more harmful. Cheerful ecologists have found a new “danger” - carbon dioxide (CO 2). The one that we generously exhale 20 times per minute. Naturally, it is harmful not to us, but to the climate. It is as if global warming, typhoons, tornadoes, tsunamis, drought and rain, heat and frost began from this. In short, it is necessary to reduce the consumption of hydrocarbon fuels.
And how do you force a layman to do this? Very simple: taxes and excise taxes. That is money …
What comes of this in practice can be clarified by Monsieur Macron. For many decades, diesel and gas prices in France have remained relatively low. However, the economic program of Monsieur Macron involves raising taxes on them precisely in order to motivate people to switch to alternative energy sources. Read - on electric cars! Therefore, over the past 12 months, the price of diesel in France has grown by 23%, and gasoline - by 15%. Both now cost about 1.5 € per liter there, but it was expected that on January 1, 2019, gas prices would rise by another 2.9 euro cent, and diesel prices by 6.5 euro cent per liter. One of the components of this growth is precisely the environmental tax on greenhouse gas emissions.
The fact, however, is that in France there are a lot of "shuttles" living in cheap suburbs and going to Paris to work and back every day. For them, such an increase is sensitive, and even the purchase of an electric car is too heavy. But in the end, the French dressed up in yellow vests and went to destroy everything around. And the same Germans now also scratch their turnips - no matter how they spread to them. Because no one needs these vests in their own country. It’s better to let them drive a diesel engine than to smash the cities and take off the authorities!
And absolutely inappropriately the statement of hundreds of pulmonologist doctors appeared, who told (with numbers in their hands) that in fact there is no PROVEN causal relationship between the content of nitrogen oxides and soot on the one hand and pulmonary oncology on the other. Moreover, this content has been steadily declining for 30 years, and oncology is growing. So this same oncology can be the result of anything - smoking, crappy food, emissions of marine diesel engines, methane exhaust of cows, etc.
So, according to the report of pulmonologists, emissions decreased over the years (in all sources in total). We are interested in particles of 2, 5 and 10 microns in size (PM are soot particles) and NOx. Apparently, they steadily decreased all the years. What else do you need, the doctors ask? So, according to the report of pulmonologists, emissions decreased over the years (in all sources in total). We are interested in particles of 2, 5 and 10 microns in size (PM are soot particles) and NOx. Apparently, they steadily decreased all the years. What else do you need, the doctors ask?
So - again, environmental lies? Or a well-designed scam preparing mass consciousness for the inevitability of abandoning ICE? And call it what you want - the essence of this will not change. In any case, the main weather in the brains of the population is made by the so-called fake news. Recently, the chairman of the Bavarian Land Committee of the party said that “bans on the basis of fake news are evidence of totalitarian thinking. It’s piquant that they are most often demanded by environmentalists, who always know exactly what others can do better than them.”
However, modern fake news has gained such strength that it is almost impossible to deal with them. In addition, numerous talkers will regard this as an attempt on freedom of speech. And the current layman, in general, loves horror stories. He is genetically capable of perceiving far from any information - it is highly desirable that it be simplified to the limit and not make him think. And when the image of the enemy is painted in front of him, he has no questions. The enemy can be diesel engines, and badly raised cows that release methane exhaust, and even homo sapiens himself, who makes 20, 000 exhalations per day. And each exhale is 0.04 g of CO 2.
Now multiply this by 7 billion - or how many of us are there on the planet?
Diesel - yes! Against arbitrariness! For diesel! Diesel - yes! Against arbitrariness! For diesel!