HHO kit and water injection prohibited at the Auto Technical Control by the DREAL

[Exnihiloest]

...... An article by Bjørn Lomborg ...

A repentant environmentalist *, who is the initiator of "Copenhagen Consensus", another rotten Think Tank for most economists ...

"Bjørn Lomborg (born January 6, 1965) is a Danish statistician, professor at the Copenhagen Business School and former director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen. A former Greenpeace member, he has gained international renown for his controversial book The Skeptical Ecologist. [...]
Its declared aim is to establish priorities in investment needs:
“The idea is simple, yet often overlooked. When resources are limited, it is necessary to prioritize the effort. Everyday, political and financial leaders decide to invest in one project rather than another. However, rather than being based on facts, science, and calculations, many vital decisions are based on political motives or even media coverage. ”
In his book, Bjørn Lomborg intends, throughout the book, to oppose the "real trends" to the figures put forward by alarm bells like WWF, Greenpeace ...

The authors of this collective work entitled Smart Solutions to Climate Change, published by the Copenhagen Business School, introduced and concluded by Bjørn Lomborg, believe that the Copenhagen climate conference (December 2009) was a failure due to a lack of method on the part of the world's political decision-makers who fail to stop or decrease emissions from "dangerous levels of rising global temperatures".
They discuss the costs, benefits and possible or probable results for various possible strategies (including geoengineering, reducing CO2 and methane or carbon black emissions, reforestation, research and development of carbon-free energy solutions or low-carbon, and the encouragement of green technologies, with a presentation of alternatives in each case).
A panel of economists, including 3 Nobel Prize winners, assesses and ranks, according to its criteria, the attractiveness of the proposed policies."

We therefore understand: Bjørn Lomborg is competent and surrounded by competent and reasonable people, who act in the interest of ecology by seeking and proposing operational solutions.. He acts rather than bawling against capitalism, his speech is not that, vain, of extremism or catastrophism, it is not of the far left, so tells us Gadget, it is a rotten .

[izentrop]

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In addition, the industrialists do not like the snipers questioning their hegemony. If now small handymen do better than them: where would the world go?

Do-it-yourselfers are doing much worse than manufacturers, who have not waited for them to find ways to lower the consumption and CO2 emissions of vehicles. HHO is a smokehouse.
And if ever the DIYers did better, they would be quickly recovered by the industry. Since the least method of effectively reducing consumption is a significant advantage over competition, especially if it is inexpensive like HHO, it would be adopted immediately.

It is clear, besides the "serious" mechanics would install some.

I am also convinced that the industry has discreetly tested the HHO (in vain) or followed what has been said.

There you discredit yourself by giving credit to the conspiracy theory.

[Christophe]

on the other hand at shift in sales from diesel to gasoline (following in particular the 2015/2016 "dieselgates").

Seriously???? You seriously believe that CONSUMERS have changed their way of buying following dieselgate ????

Me bin I do not believe 1 fraction of a second!

[Gébé]

well if

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That leads to an increase in consumption and therefore in CO2 emissions, but the interest is above all more tax revenue !!!!

[Janic]

It is clear, besides the "serious" mechanics would install some.

it’s not that simple if it was simple.
Serious mechanics are those who have a mechanical mind and are willing to try anything that improves their job.
However, among garage owners, there are small garage owners of all brands who do not depend on a group and who do according to the wishes of their customers if that does not call into question their competence and professional responsibility and also the garage owners dependent on brands and whose "submission" to the group's directives prohibits them from any unauthorized intervention. and yet they are also serious mechanics.
However serious does not mean competent in a field which is unusual for them and certain failures can be due to the bad assembly of these various systems of HHO. It is therefore those, for whom the results are convincing, which make it possible to say that such or such system is effective by the results obtained and the failures deserve to be analyzed to understand the reasons.
For that you have to put your hands in the grease, and not philosophize behind a computer.

[Christophe]

well if

Thank you for this table.

Indeed the drop in diesel is notable ... I did not think it was at this point.

On the other hand, I find it hard to believe that it is linked to the VW and co. Business ... rather to the fuel prices which are now at the same level ... and as a diesel is more expensive historically, consumers are turning to gasoline (since there is ONLY money that counts ...)

As electric cars are constantly increasing, it is not they who explain the recovery since 2016. It is therefore a story of car category.

[Janic]

As electric cars are constantly increasing, it is not they who explain the recovery since 2016. It is therefore a story of car category.

they would not be without the bonuses and their figure is ridiculously low, despite government incentives.

[Christophe]

Uh absolute 2% and more than 100% growth in 4 years, well I find that not bad !!

I do not know what the EV incentives currently active in France ... or their evolution over these 4 years ...

[Janic]

Uh absolute 2% and more than 100% growth in 4 years, well I find that not bad !!

it's the numbers trap. If you sell one more car than the previous year where you only sold one, it's also 100% growth.
The shift towards electric mobility is not innocent and does not specifically concern CO2, (there are other pollutants at risk) but much more to maintain maximum nuclear production and at the same time discredit the ENR for their failure to replace it (in France at least!)

[Christophe]

Yes yes do me, do us, lessons in statistical analysis ...

If I spoke over 4 years it is precisely to smooth things out: 20 to 30% annual growth would make more than one seller or accountant dream!

So yes, the EV market is doing VERY GOOD in France!

In absolute terms, 2% in France in 2019 represents how many cars sold? For which turnover (approximate)?

We are not talking about the environmental relevance or not of EVs ... just sales ...