Hooked on Fenix
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Here's a decent video explaining the situation:
Urea in pee is maybe a couple percent urea. Urea in Adblue is around a third. You'd waste an awful lot of fuel or power boiling the water out until you had the right concentration for the truck's computer to not reject. But thanks a lot. Now I have to do a public service announcement.I'll gladly donate my urine if that would help. Seriously, with all the factory farming going on can't we use that as a source of urea?
Key words here is OLD diesel trucks.Some American surfers who do a lot of traveling to catch the best waves fuel their old pickup trucks with used cooking oil they process themselves when the waves are flat.
I also read where McDonalds in the Netherlands uses their used cooking oil to fuel their delivery trucks. So perhaps even if that countries trucking industry collapses one can still get their fix of McNuggets.
Saw a big stack of it at a filling station along the interstate when I travelled weekend before last, suggesting to me the shortage can't be that severe just yet.I haven't seen any US news stories regarding AdBlue. Is it projected to be a problem here in the US?
It appears that the EPA is on top of this issue. I didn't know that there was a sensor shortage until you mentioned it.I said the Adblue sensor shortage has the potential to, not will shut down tens of thousands of trucks in the near future. Some companies might decide to replace the trucks with electric ones or retrofit their current ones to electric (very expensive either way). The government could change the law to allow for an emissions delete, bypassing the need for Adblue and the sensors entirely. The sensor shortage could end at some point solving the problem. Just because something could happen, doesn't mean it will. Keep an eye out and do a little prep work just in case, because things could go south very fast if this does happen.
Expensive in the short term but probably cheaper in the long term. Companies that don't look solely at next quarter will convert ASAP. Those that do won't, and their long-term viability will suffer.Some companies might decide to replace the trucks with electric ones or retrofit their current ones to electric (very expensive either way).
Impractical at best for a commanding majority of Americans to do much more than supplement their nutrition with a home garden. Living on a ~5000ft² lot of which half is lawn and a bit more than half of that gets reasonable sun I don't have a lot of space for crops - and I've probably got more space than the average city-dweller.Time to be growing your food at home.