Re: Air Care, emmissions testing

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From: david michelson
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 23:37

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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

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Subject: Re: Air Care, emmissions testing
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