Deadly Diesel Emissions PM & Soot + Worse
Channel: Aaron Schwarz
Date: 2019-05-22

Here our trusty dashcam (cropped to target vehicle) captures a diesel powered flatbed truck climbing a hill & the extreme particle pollution exhaust PM or particulate matter soot from this truck the subject. 

Diesel engines were originally designed to run on peanut oil. The designer Rudolf Diesel liked biofuels & compression ignition engines that could make use of natural plant oils as a fuel source for the chemical energy to drive the combustion events that produce pressure to move the pistons that crank the crankshaft therin transferring mechanical energy to the transmission & into the drive wheels where this rotational kinetic energy is converted to linear motion to move the vehicle. 

Internal combustion engines take in air & fuel, compress the air fuel mixtures that burns to create heat & pressure that performs work in the mechanical drivetrain to move the vehicle. 

Most vehicles worldwide make use of internal combustion engines that burn gasoline or diesel or turbines that burn jet fuel that is similar to diesel. Clean electric vehicles powered by renewable energy will ultimately replace all of these dirty finited burning methods for making transportation energy. 

The VW dieselgate debacle extended well beyond VW to nearly every other automaker who was also found guilty of installing emissions cheating devices, software & systems in their diesel powered vehicles / violating clean air laws that govern the emissions of vehicles to protect public health from deadly silent air pollution that is a major source of preventable sickness, suffering & premature death worldwide. Diesel vehicle emissions rival coal power emissions in terms of toxicity & should be banned by 2025! This gives OEM's, manufacturers, businesses & individuals a fair chance to phase out toxic vehicles & replace them with cleaner newer better & lower emissions models that do not create excessive amounts of toxic air pollution during their operating lives as vehicles. Consider the lifecycle energy & emissions of transportation technology for billions of people.