Phil Pascoe
Established Member
It was said several years ago that the cleanest air you could breath on Oxford Street was to get your mouth around the exhaust pipe of one of the top of the range Saab's.
Smoking
- Thread starter Vulcan
- Start date
Help Support UKworkshop.co.uk:
artie
Sawdust manufacturer.
Some things I can swallow, some things I question but that statement is in a whole different dimension.
Please understand, air is not emitted from an exhaust pipe.
Phil Pascoe
Established Member
Ice? Mercury? Custard?
And your proof is???
Euro 6 diesels are a far cry from 'ye old smokers' diesels of yesteryear (in fact a E6 diesel seen emmitting ANY smoke at any time is a automatic fail and if seen will be required to undergo an emissions test!!!)- and the new euro 7 spec ones (many diesels already meet the new euro 7 specs, as they are coming in in less than 8 months time (July 1 2025) and are even tougher...)
In fact, if you want to 'die peacefully in your garage'- a petrol car is your best bet- a E6 diesel emits HALF the CO of a E6 petrol car...
https://inelo.com/european-exhaust-emission-standard-from-euro-1-to-euro-7/
Now its your turn- what PROOF- not hyperbolic statements made without actual data being shown to support them- do you have to support your statement???
Actual data- numbers...
Like I mentioned before- if you want to try it, then using a petrol car is your best bet- as they are legally allowed DOUBLE the CO emissions of a diesel... (carbon monoxide/CO is what is the 'silent killer')
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_emission_standards
Unless you have managed to sneak your car onto a submarine or other airtight containment, there is always plenty of oxygen in the environment- what killed people was too much carbon monoxide in the air- which inhibits the bodies ability to USE to oxygen in the air...I don't see any mention of Oxygen coming out of a car exhaust. Quite important if the fumes, however "clean", are your only source of air.
https://www.co2meter.com/en-au/blogs/news/carbon-monoxide-levels-chart
Do you not notice a complete lack of Oxygen in there? Oxygen is the gas that supports life and makes up 20.95% of the air that we breath.
The largest part of most combustion gas is nitrogen (N2), water vapor (H2O) (except with pure-carbon fuels), and carbon dioxide (CO2) (except for fuels without carbon); these are not toxic or noxious. A relatively small part of combustion gas is undesirable, noxious, or toxic substances, such as carbon monoxide (CO) from incomplete combustion, hydrocarbons (properly indicated as CxHy, but typically shown simply as "HC" on emissions-test slips) from unburnt fuel, nitrogen oxides (NOx) from excessive combustion temperatures, and particulate matter (mostly soot) from incomplete combustion absorbed by PF's.
As you can see it's far from being air which was my original statement which triggered off a lot of this.
Exhaust gas will kill you by suffocation if nothing else, it is absolutely incorrect to state that the 'air' coming of the exhaust is cleaner than the air going into the engine which is an often (but very incorrect) statement pos6ted.
