The plasmatron doesn't deal with soot emissions, but ArvinMeritor engineers are hoping to develop by the end of the decade future variants that would.
It has imposed new clean air standards governing emissions of soot and smog.
The researchers were also able to see a rise in temperatures after 1970 - the consequence of clean air legislation cutting emissions of soot and sulphates.
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Other observers have written that the focus on carbon dioxide above all else has been misplaced, since quick wins are available in other areas like cutting methane emissions or black carbon soot.
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These cores show that the level of pollution, especially soot, in Himalayan glaciers correlates with emissions in Europe and South Asia.
The authors say that while cutting back on soot is important, cutting carbon dioxide emissions is the best way to address climate change in the long term.
For example, our New Jersey coal plants with their various pollution-control systems have been able to reduce, by over 90 percent, emissions of mercury, acid gases and soot.
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The goals going forward, the mayor continues, are not just to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but also those tied to acid rain, soot and mercury.
Doctors say the microscopic soot a shower of combustion particles from tailpipe and other emissions can tax the lungs of even healthy people.
But since then, soot in the snow has increased several times over due mainly to industrial emissions.
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The result, when it is burned, is the near-complete abolition of soot, and a reduction of up to 80% in nitrogen-oxide emissions.
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