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- From: davem@ee.ubc.ca (david michelson)
- Subject: Re: Air Care, emmissions testing
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.233745.15379@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- References: <1992Nov5.090403.6194@ee.ubc.ca> <1dc5gjINNa24@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Distribution: bc
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:37:45 GMT
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- In article <1dc5gjINNa24@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> arnett@unixg.ubc.ca (Bill Arnett) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov5.090403.6194@ee.ubc.ca> jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes:
- >>I heard that CO2 is one component they test for. But CO2 is harmless.
- >
- >CO2 is NOT harmless. It is the most abundant "green-house" gas. I don't
- >remember whether they test for it. They do test for NOx, CO, and hydro-
- >carbons.
-
- Just out of curiosity :-) how do you propose to reduce CO2 emissions from
- a "badly-tuned" engine? I guess one method is to mis-tune it even more
- so that one gets a lot more CO instead. But I don't think that's what one
- wants. :-)
-
- Dave
- davem@ee.ubc.ca
-