10-25-2020, 02:19 AM
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If you depend on everything to be brought to you by tractor trailer truck, you ain't green.
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10-25-2020, 11:31 AM
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If you depend on everything to be brought to you by tractor trailer truck, you ain't green.
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Good point and also not a good point. |
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10-25-2020, 01:28 PM
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Another industry ripe for Tesla's disruption.
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10-25-2020, 06:14 PM
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I think it would be great to have electrics take over a chunk of the delivery industry.
What is starting to happen is natural gas intake fumigation on existing diesels. They run way cleaner, are more efficient, it even extends oil changes if the truck can find and run natural gas all the time.
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10-26-2020, 12:28 AM
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I'm for 1U shipping containers in a rectangular 'hyperloop' pneumatic tubes. Left and right turns sharper than grade changes.
And soup-can sized tubes all over apartment buildings like in City of Lost Children. Best pic I can find:
The Grue: Behind The Scenes: The City Of Lost Children
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10-28-2020, 12:24 AM
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What is starting to happen is natural gas intake fumigation on existing diesels.
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It just didn't become so widespread in my country because until 2005 most Diesel-powered vehicles had mechanically-governed engines, yet for vehicles manufactured from '97 onward are mandated to have an electronically-controlled conversion kit.
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if the truck can find and run natural gas all the time
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It would make more sense than DEF. |
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10-28-2020, 04:48 AM
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DEF is just about pointless on long haul trucks.
Only about 1% if even that much area of the US has NOx pollution problems.
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10-28-2020, 10:56 AM
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DEF is just about pointless on long haul trucks.
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Why? Cleaner air / less pollution is a good thing everywhere.
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Only about 1% if even that much area of the US has NOx pollution problems.
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10-28-2020, 06:57 PM
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Why? Cleaner air / less pollution is a good thing everywhere.
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Ok so burning more fuel and creating more CO2 is a good thing?
I guess your not really worried about CO2 production as much as you pretend to be.
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10-29-2020, 06:25 PM
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DEF is just about pointless on long haul trucks
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I'd much rather resort to water injection, because it not only decreases NOx and particulate matter, it also increases performance and fuel efficiency at the same time.
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