little known Diesel facts... emissions...

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A study was done by VW on a Rabbit with a gasoline and Diesel engine
of identical output.  The gasoline engine was a 1.1 liter engine producing
50 PS (roughly the same as horsepower) and the Diesel engine a 1.5 liter
producing 50 PS.

Three items were measured.  CO, HC and NOx   - Carbon Monoxide,
Hydrocarbons and Oxides of Nitrogen.

	     CO        HC          NOx
Gasoline:  23.17      2.22        2.76
Diesel:     1.0       0.25        1.2

I'm not certain of the specific measurement or test, I would suspect
these reading would be in ppm.   But notice that regardless of
units the Diesel engine is around 40% of the gas engine.

Source: Advanced Automotive Power Systems 
Part I: Morphological Systems and System Analysis, 
SAE Paper #760591, by P. Hofbauer and B. Wiedeman,
Volkswagenwerk AG)
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john meister from 
Snohomish, Washington

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