Reducing fossil fuel pollutants will improve our health and reduce healthcare costs.
Lastly, reductions in biomass solid fuel pollutants have the potential to impact climate change as well.
In this commentary I highlight current scientific evidence indicating that the fetus and young child are at heightened risk of developmental impairment, asthma, and cancer from fossil fuel pollutants and from the predicted effects of climate disruption such as heat waves, flooding, infectious disease, malnutrition, and trauma.
Table 1 Comparing the GHG emissions of several fossil fuels Pollutant (pounds per billion btu of energy input) Natural gas Oil Coal Carbon dioxide 117,000 164,000 208,000 Carbon monoxide 40 33 208 Nitrogen oxides 92 448 457 Sulfur dioxide 1 1,122 2,591 Particulates 7 84 2,744 Mercury 0.000 0.007 0.016 Source: EIA - Natural Gas Issues and Trends 1998.
In the modeling, we were able to control for one stationary fossil-fuel pollutant at a time as a potential confounder when assessing the effect of one of the traffic-related pollutants and vice versa.
Global warming also compounds the direct toxicity of fossil-fuel pollutants such as ozone, an important trigger of childhood asthma (Bernard et al. 2001).
Why? Scientists/physicians tend to have higher incomes, and those in the highest-income decile appear to cause about 25 times more fossil-fuel pollutants than those in the lowest-income decile [ 41].
The three conflicting and non-commensurable: fuel cost, pollutant emissions and system loss, should be minimized simultaneously while satisfying certain system constraints.
The general performance of a porous inert media burner system in terms of radiative efficiency, fuel flexibility, pollutant formation and reliability was determined experimentally.
This chapter discusses impacts of biodiesel fuel on pollutant emissions from diesel engines and ultrafine particles from a heavy duty diesel engine running on rapeseed oil methyl ester.
An experimental investigation was performed with a view to comparing high and low pressure exhaust gas recirculation systems (HP and LP EGR) fitted on an automotive turbocharged diesel engine, focusing on analysing their influence on fuel consumption, pollutant emissions and the combustion process.
