been thinking about the epa reg's and how to get a listeroid into compliance
there has been mention of
1. higher injection pressures
2. egr
3. heated intake air
4. reverse flow cooling, (requires a pump)
but i got to thinking, but first i need to digress abit
a. about 15 years ago, there was a guy here in washington that had some wetland area that he wanted to build on, but found the
wetland to be polluted with heavy metals and other nasty stuff. he bought the land and was stuck with it and could not do anything with it.
the story goes he did a bunch of research and found a group of wetland plants that have the property of being able to absorb differing contaminates
into the plant fiber, he planted this stuff, cut it and hauled off the cuttings etc to the landfill. after about 5 years the swamp was retested and was clear of
the contaminates, and no one knew how he did it.
b. CO cannot be used by plants, or at least that is what was commonly held up untill a few years ago when it was found that about 6 or 7 varieties of plants had mutated and became capable of using CO as well as CO2. this was quite a surprise to the scientific community.
so i wonder:
what if you dig a long trench pit, and put a perforated exhaust pipe from your lister , fill with course rock ,then finer, then sand, cap with loose soil, and
you then have accomplished the following
a. noise reduction, a plus
b. no exhaust smoke, or at least greatly diffused
c. particulate matter is trapped underground, carbon for the most part
now we plant stuff that can use the CO2, all plants like that
we plant the select mutants that like CO, now that is used up
all we need now is a plant or group of plants that can derive the nitrogen from the oxides of nitrogen, seems like there atta be some plant that
is capable of doing this, anyone know? or know who to ask?
or is it possible to build a pond above the plot and let these gasses percualate up through the water, perhaps marine plant life, and photosynthesis can
change these gases to something useful and non destructive.
i wonder?
thoughts? anybody know anyone that might have some light to shed on this?
the problem i see with an open exhaust is once into the atmosphere it is much harder to do anything with, but if controlled perhaps in a stationary application
there is a botanical solution to some part or all of the problem
bob g