Soot warming 'maybe bigger than greenhouse gases' - NASA

The Register (UK) ^ | 15th December 2009 12:16 GMT | Lewis Page

[Daffynition]

Kudos!

//wild applause

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Yours is white like mine!

Mine also gets over 20 mpg at 75 mph. And there is NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING like the feel of over 1000 foot pounds of that massive and steady Diesel torque!

[Caipirabob]

Shame on NASA.

[Daffynition]

The color of the smoke or the color of the truck? LOL

[laker_dad]

OK, I’m assuming that’s not a “stock” diesel. What kind of mods have you made?

[mad_as_he$$]

Oh please. NASA looking for another crack to exploit. Why the F&*k is NASA even playing climate. They cannot even deliver a new launch vehicle.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

A chip programmer will boost HP by as much a 50% on these super powerful machines. The additional 5” exhaust stack will also let the engine breathe better, but very little expense is needed to make them howl like a banshee. Performance is built into them. In fact, the factory puts rev limiters and detunes them to hold them to a mere 325 HP. They are capable of much more than that by simply changing the computer program.

[laker_dad]

I have a 2001 Excursion with the 7.3 Powerstroke and an older (2002) Superchips microtuner, but I can’t get near the 450 hp mark. But then again, with 212K miles on her, I don’t want to kill the transmission :)

Smoke em if ya got em....

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

The Alison has no problem what so ever of dropping that HP to the ground.

[AFPhys]

What the soot, carbon black, does in the air is not clear. Studies are still somewhat scattered in results since it also serves as a cloud progenitor. However, there is definite cause to believe that it increases albedo of the earth, making it slightly darker, when it comes back to the ground.

Only a 1% increase in the albedo of earth by whatever means easily accounts for all warming of the 20th Century.

I wouldn’t fight less soot-producing technologies, since it is a definite sign of incomplete combustion, and wasted energy. I want to see all of it become CO2 (fertilizer) in the atmosphere instead.

[NormsRevenge]

God forbid volcanic eruptions keep happening or the greens will never get the earth tidied up..

[Reeses]

They really want to reduce soot because it will lead to global warming’s Second Coming followed by the Funding Rapture. Soot nucleotides induce thick cloud formation which cools the surface. They know that.

[Marine_Uncle]

These SOB’s are relentless. They will get you from any conceivable angle.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

LOL....The Greenies can’t keep their own nests tidy from what I know about them!