Have you seen or used ‘Krishnoil’ (there is no divinity attached to it !) ~ though not All India Motor Tariff parameter, some Insurers do distinguish between petrol and diesel versions of the same make model vehicle !! Volkswagen was in news for wrong – as it is alleged to have been cheating in emission tests by making its cars appear far less polluting than they are. The US Environmental Protection Agency discovered that 482,000 VW diesel cars on American roads were emitting up to 40 times more toxic fumes than permitted - and VW has since admitted the cheat affects 11m cars worldwide. In case you are baffled ‘krishnoil’ was a household name of 1970s – it is the ‘kerosene oil’ – which according to a study by researchers from UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois – the Globe has been overlooking a significant source of black carbon pollution: Kerosene lanterns, used as a primary light source for millions of people worldwide. Kerosene, also known as paraffin, lamp oil, and coal oil (an obsolete term), is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum, widely used as a fuel in industry as well as households. Its name derives from Greek: κηρός (keros) meaning wax, and was registered as a trademark by Canadian geologist and inventor Abraham Gesner in 1854 before evolving into a genericized trademark. Kerosene is widely used to power jet engines of aircraft (jet fuel) and some rocket engines and is also commonly used as a cooking and lighting fuel and for fire toys such as poi. I have heard of roadside mechanics using kerosene to power their two wheelers !!The research claims that the black carbon soot from kerosene lanterns is twenty times higher than is currently assumed when factoring in this light source into calculations of total black carbon emissions.Black carbon is increasingly being cited as a significant factor in global warming, as well as in glacier melting. So Scientists would want to poor to phase out kerosene stoves and look for a costlier alternative !
'krishnoil' ?!? ~ German Top Court Rules 'heavily Polluting Vehicles Can Be Banned' !
Posted on the 27 February 2018 by Sampathkumar SampathHave you seen or used ‘Krishnoil’ (there is no divinity attached to it !) ~ though not All India Motor Tariff parameter, some Insurers do distinguish between petrol and diesel versions of the same make model vehicle !! Volkswagen was in news for wrong – as it is alleged to have been cheating in emission tests by making its cars appear far less polluting than they are. The US Environmental Protection Agency discovered that 482,000 VW diesel cars on American roads were emitting up to 40 times more toxic fumes than permitted - and VW has since admitted the cheat affects 11m cars worldwide. In case you are baffled ‘krishnoil’ was a household name of 1970s – it is the ‘kerosene oil’ – which according to a study by researchers from UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois – the Globe has been overlooking a significant source of black carbon pollution: Kerosene lanterns, used as a primary light source for millions of people worldwide. Kerosene, also known as paraffin, lamp oil, and coal oil (an obsolete term), is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum, widely used as a fuel in industry as well as households. Its name derives from Greek: κηρός (keros) meaning wax, and was registered as a trademark by Canadian geologist and inventor Abraham Gesner in 1854 before evolving into a genericized trademark. Kerosene is widely used to power jet engines of aircraft (jet fuel) and some rocket engines and is also commonly used as a cooking and lighting fuel and for fire toys such as poi. I have heard of roadside mechanics using kerosene to power their two wheelers !!The research claims that the black carbon soot from kerosene lanterns is twenty times higher than is currently assumed when factoring in this light source into calculations of total black carbon emissions.Black carbon is increasingly being cited as a significant factor in global warming, as well as in glacier melting. So Scientists would want to poor to phase out kerosene stoves and look for a costlier alternative !