Would there be anyway to make exhaust "heavier"

[Taverner]

So that it falls to the ground as soot, rather than become airborne?

[Speck Tater]

1. The energy derives from oxidation of carbon.

Unfortunately all forms of oxidized carbon (Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide) are gases.

[RC]

2. If that were the case, then this 'soot' would get washed into our lakes and streams.

To say nothing about our ground water. We don't need that either.


We can't win. We might as well go extinct to save the planet.

[Taverner]

3. Not if it could be collected

[RC]

4. Have the exhaust going into a vacuum cleaner bag?

Change it every X # of miles?

[Taverner]

5. I dunno - it would be a thought if possible

Better than the current solution of a catalytic converter - but if it can't happen it can't happen.

[madokie]

7. didn't I read somewhere that mercedes has a soot collector on some of their diesel powered autos

[TheMadMonk]

9. Wouldn't be surprised.

Soot btw is unburnt carbon = wasted energy = wasted fuel = not gonna work. (In reply to the original poster)

[ben_meyers]

6. We might as well go extinct to save the planet.

Save the planet for what? If humans don't exist what's the point?

[BeFree]

8. Bull

People who say we can't eliminate and/or control our pollution are crazy.

Smokestacks are our worst enemy. Cars have capture/elimination devices and we can afford to capture co2 or whatever from stacks, its just a matter of deciding to do so.

[Nihil]

11. Whoops ...

> If humans don't exist what's the point?

... your religion is showing ...

:blush:

[kristopher]

10. A gallon of gasoline is assumed to produce 8.8 kilograms (or 19.4 pounds) of CO2.

Just imagine a bag of charcoal briquettes falling out of your tailpipe every 20 miles or so. That "filter" is going to get pretty heavy...


http://www.epa.gov/OMS/climate/420f05004.htm
Emission Facts: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Typical Passenger Vehicle

[Nihil]

12. As comical as that sounds ...

> Just imagine a bag of charcoal briquettes falling out of your tailpipe
> every 20 miles or so.

... it *might* just bring it home to the dumb-shit driver how much
they are wasting ...