Why don't Diesel Trains have AdBlue?

[TheJoyOfSix]

But those smelly and unhealthy particles entering your lungs are large enough to get coughed back up. The new 'environmentally friendly' smaller particles produced by diesel engines with particulate filters are not.

 

[gallafent]

But those smelly and unhealthy particles entering your lungs are large enough to get coughed back up. The new 'environmentally friendly' smaller particles produced by diesel engines with particulate filters are not.

A chemist friend suggested to me that the particulates produced by petrol engines are likewise substantially more deleterious to health (again, they're smaller and lighter, and travel deeper into the lungs and stay there …).

 

[R G NOW.]

I'd have to disagree with you on that one. IF the Railway is a clean industry, why are lights and other electricity burning appliances left on at stations when they are closed?

Here is an thread about Energy Efficiency:
https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/energy-efficiency-on-the-railways-is-there-a-plan.175786/

I understand that stations are gradually getting L-E-D Platform lighting, These new fittings are very energy efficient. And after about 15 mins, when there is no movement of people on platforms, they dim, or at least they do at Gloucester, cos' I walked up the platform, then they go bright.

 

[R G NOW.]

A chemist friend suggested to me that the particulates produced by petrol engines are likewise substantially more deleterious to health (again, they're smaller and lighter, and travel deeper into the lungs and stay there …).

Could this be more damaging, than smoking?

 

[rebmcr]

But those smelly and unhealthy particles entering your lungs are large enough to get coughed back up. The new 'environmentally friendly' smaller particles produced by diesel engines with particulate filters are not.

They're not new, the older engines produce both!

 

[edwin_m]

Could this be more damaging, than smoking?

Unlikely considering smoking has been demonstrated to kill between a third and a half of those who partake. If internal combustion particulates were equally bad then after IC engines are banned the average life expectancy would go well above 100.

 

[cjp]

Unlikely considering smoking has been demonstrated to kill between a third and a half of those who partake. If internal combustion particulates were equally bad then after IC engines are banned the average life expectancy would go well above 100.

An interesting thread but this last bit is just plain scary.