date:Sep 20, 2012
orable caf) cooking charbroiled burgers was worse than pollution from diesel trucks.
How much worse? Here's what the principal development engineer, Bill Welch has to say:
For comparison, an 18-wheeler diesel engine truck would have to drive 143 miles on the freeway to put out the same mass of particulates as a single charbroiled hamburger patty.
Diesel exhaust, which certainly generates its share of airborne nastiness, is very well regulated, and many mechanisms are in place to help control