do gas fork lifts produce more co2 than cars or do cars still produce more?
Does it really matter? There are many, many more cars out there than forklifts. Okay, fine. Consider that forklifts run all day, versus cars that run for maybe 2 hours per day. Consider that cars and forklifts use the same technology. Now. Does THAT answer your question? btw, thanks for the thumbs down.
carbon monoxide, which comes from burning gas, is the problem for cars.. Forklifts use electricity or Propane, Propane makes carbon dioxide, which, is not as problematic. (although it needs to be reduced also)
The only driveable forklifts I have seen are all Propane or CNG powered and the really big ones are diesel.
There are more cars than fork lifts. A lot more. So as a group cars produce more CO2 than fork lifts. OK, so one fork lift probably has a smaller engine than one car, so it would produce less CO2 than a car. But I am only assuming that the engine is smaller. A big fork lift could have a bigger engine than a car. Bottom line is that the amount of CO2 is 100% determined by the fuel consumption of the engine. 1 gallon of gasoline burned will produce the same amount of CO2 no matter what engine burns it. So your answer can easily be answered by keeping records of how many gallons of gasoline are used per day and just ignore the type of vehicle or engine. This is different than traditional 'pollution'. Traditional pollution is unburned hydrocarbons and other unnecessary byproducts of inefficient burning of the fuel. These can be largely eliminated by good engine design and add on pollution control systems like catalytic converters. But a 100% perfectly clean engine with no traditional pollution at all will still produce the amount of CO2 and H2O that the chemical equations for burning the gasoline theoretically require. The CO2 and H2O were never considered pollution before global warming became an issue. That is because those gasses are a natural and necessary part of the atmosphere, unlike the unburned hydrocarbons and other byproducts. And the CO2 and H2O can never be cleaned up by building a better engine or by scrubbing the exhaust. They can ONLY be reduced by burning less fuel by making the engine smaller or running it less and can only be eliminated completed by never running the engine at all.
Does it really matter? There's no conclusive evidence to support and more to refute the mythical man-made global warming anyways.
