[ncountylee]

Trouble in global warming land.

[Glenn]

from an estimated 50 million in 2000 to more than 140 million in 2050.

I'll be long dead, but I'm going to encourage my grandchildren to invest in risky creative parking schemes.

[Past Your Eyes]

I put one of those cadillac converters on my car but it's still an Escort. I should have known it wouldn't work.

[Nephi]

Internal combustion engines are meant to run on vapor, but fuel injection systems (and even carburetors) are liquid metering systems. So, catalytic converters are a clumsy effort to clean up unburned fuel. The efficient approach would be to vaporize the fuel before it enters the engine. Kind of like how your liquid propane turns to gas before it is burned in your bbq grill.

If the American public knew what the oil companies, car companies and government (who has a conflict of interest in taxes per gallon of gas vs. fuel economy) know about fuel vaporization there would be a revolution.

[fireforeffect]

For years I drove a 1971 Chevy pickup (Straight 6, standard shift) and it ALWAYS passed the new car emissions test. If course I did a partial tune-up every month.

Modern vehicles are computer controlled. They stay in tune longer.

[doc30]

This is a news article, not a scientific paper so it lacks crucial details. It mentions that materials from catalytic converters have been detected. Does this mean that modern techniques can now detect trace amounts of these materials that have always been there because detection limits have been improved. Or has the concentration of these materials increased to where they are now detectable? Or is this just spin to fuek the enviro-wacko's goal of eliminating the personal automobile?

[CPOSharky]

As science's ability to measure particulate concentration gets better and better there will be more of these kind of "discoveries."

(Humans exhale one molecule of Plutonium every year. Need more money for further research.)

[The Great RJ]

Wait until we have millions of hybrid vehicles on the road and have a few involved in accidents. Imagine passengers or more likely rescuers being electrocuted or having an accident that ruptures the trunk load of batteries creating a major hazardous spill. We already have a serious pollution problem from MTBE that government clean air policies mandated be added to gasoline.

Fear nothing more than the government trying to fix things.