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From: Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas>
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Subject: Re: How much carbon monoxide is removed by catalyic converters?
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:19:12 -0600
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Xeno wrote:
> Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> wrote:
>> Woozy Song wrote:
>>> I only found one paper where they measured this. It was a 1971 car
>>> versus a 2003 car, and the modern car had 12% the CO of the old car. But
>>> that old car would presumably have been quite primitive (carburetor,
>>> fixed valve timing et cetera) and the newer car would have spewed out
>>> less CO without the cat anyway.
>>
>> According to the internet, a typical new cat will remove 90% to 99% of
>> CO.  The Equalizer movie star would have to leave the bad guy in the car
>> for 24 hours instead of 24 minutes to suffer from CO inhalation.
>>
> 
> Not at all. The CO2 concentration would have done him in long before then -
> as long as he was already unconscious. Were he conscious and able to freely
> move, he would have exited the car long before CO had any negative effect.
> Look up how CO2 affects people and you’ll know where I’m heading with this.
> ____
> Xeno

Yes. It was my poor attempt at humor.
I just watched that stupid movie and it was on my mind.