Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Biodiesel is love.

Did you know that using biodiesel reduces emissions by 78%? When reading the article "School Children Endagered by Bus Emissions,Study Says"( which you can find at http://chalk.richmond.edu/elements/articles/bus_emissions/index.html ),According to the Union of Concerned Scientists studies of the effects of diesel emissions on children's health, "diesel school bus emissions are contributing to the deteriorating lung capacities of children, as well as increasing their risks of ashma, heart disease, bronchitis, lung cancer,allergies and premature death." Statistics show that ashma is currently the most prevalent cause of absences in the state of New Jersey, where the study was taken. The UCS stated that recent studies have found that polluted air can concentrate inside school buses and cause the 16,000 New Jersey children riding the buses to breathe air that is nearly 10 times more concentrated with particules and soot than they would inhale standing on the side of the road. With biodiesel these emissions would be signifigantly reduced, helping to better the health of these students, as well as students around the country.

Even a B5 mixture of biodiesel reduces emissions by 10%, which is showed in the graph above.

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