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Originally Posted by Maxbumpo
Can you site a source for this idea of nanoparticles in diesel exhaust?
Why are so many school buses and city buses powered by diesel engines, if the exhaust is toxic?
I don't like to breath diesel fumes either, but I don't think that it is any more harmful than the exhaust from a gasoline engine. Diesel exhaust does not contain carbon monoxide, which is a real poison that can actually kill you or make you very sick, and CO gas IS produced by gasoline engines.
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Diesel soot and NOx is bad for you. Not as bad as smaller particulate matter, but it ain't good. In NYS, school busses are no longer allowed to idle more than 5 minutes when waiting.
In buffalo the neighborhood near the Peace bridge (canadian border crossing) has well document and long standing high prevalence of athsma and other lung problems. This is caused by the NOx and soot from trucks waiting for customs clearance.
Geographic Clustering of Adult Asthma Hospitalization and Residential Exposure to Pollution at a United States
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