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i was just wondering do nitros produce pollution??

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I would say yes.I think that even electric is also harmful to the enviroment. Unless the Bateries are properly disposed of.But alot of poeple just throw dead bateries in the garbage.[&o]

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Of course, they're burning fuel.

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Yes it does. It has a combustible engine that that burns a Carbon based fossil fuel. Do not run your Nitro in an closed unventilated space. And try to avoid breathing in the fumes. Compared to a real car it puts out very little pollution as you only burn a few gallons a year.

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ok thanks i was just wondering

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Fossil fuel??????? Is nitro or methanol made from fossil fuel? I do not think so but correct me if I am wrong. Maybe some of the oil they use starts will fossil oil but is a very small part. Burn a couple gallons a year I burn at least a couple gallons a month!!!!!!!! When I go to the track I normally go through at least a half a gallon. [X(]

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As far as I know the contents of the nitro fuel we run is all man made.

Features stuff like alcohol and castor synthetic oils, and nitromethane is produced by treating propane with nitric acid.

Fossil fuels?

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You could probably run your nitro car 24/7 for an entire year and not equal the pollution that the average family sedan produces in the same time span. Electrics aren't any better for the environment because not only do the batteries eventually pollute landfills, but for the most part something somewhere is being burned to create the electricity that you use to charge those batteries.

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Historically, methanol was first produced from pyrolysis of wood, resulting in its common English name of wood alcohol. Presently, methanol is usually produced using methane (the chief constituent of natural gas) as a raw material. It may also be produced by pyrolysis of many organic materials or by Fischer Tropsch from synthetic gas. Production of methanol from synthesis gas using Biomass-To-Liquid can offer methanol production from biomass at efficiencies up to 75%. Widespread production by this route has a postulated potential (see Olah reference above) to offer methanol fuel at a low cost and with benefits to the environment. These production methods, however, are not suitable for small scale production.

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I think its like, A V8 idling for a minute produces less than a nitro engine does in a gallon, or something like that. An EXTREMELY small number.

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I bet you'd actually be quite surprised at how dirty these little nitro motors emmisions are


full size cars have regulations for pollution, and have cat converters and o2 sensors and whatnot to help them burn clean

these little RC motors are primitively carburated, and are all about making performance with no concern for clean emmisions AND they're burning oil

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Do know that electricity is produced primarily via the burning of coal. About half of the electricity in the U.S. is produced using this. Also, coal is more pollutant than methanol when combusted because it is so impure.

Though, just about everything we do is pollutant in some way, even some stuff the masses are lead to believe is "emission free." For example, hydrogen-powered car's aren't much better than gasoline-powered cars because in order to get Hydrogen, methane must be combusted (along with other processes that require more energy and produce more popution). Hydrogen can also be acquired through hydrolysis, but that requires lots of electricity which is yet again created by the burning of coal. The same applies to electric cars since they are also powered by the burning of coal.

Basically, no form of energy can be had without somehow "damaging" our planet, even things powered by water, wind, or the sun. "Manufacture of [solar] cells requires potentially toxic metals such as lead, mercury and cadmium and produces carbon dioxide, which contributes to global warming." Wind-power and water-power are probably the cleanest, but even dams destroy ecosystems and the materials that dams and wind-mills are made of either come from oil itself (some plastics), are made synthetically using either already-produced electricity or heat from combustion (other plastics), or are mined and processed using machines that require lots of energy.

Not to try to get anyone down or anything, but essentially everything do or create has some negative affect on the environment, so I wouldn't worry about it. If you do want to worry, worry about us, not the Earth. All we are doing is hurting ourselves, since the planet is going to eventually shake us off like a bad case of fleas.

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actually, coal has come a long way. it is a very clean compared to some other generating tech.

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The cobustion itself produces a few nasty things such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogens and sulphides