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<blockquote data-quote="Ducdude" data-source="post: 17465" data-attributes="member: 2077"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Hi John,</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Thanks for your data. Interestingly the N2 you are filling your tyres with has nothing to do with global warming or the size of the N2 molecule..</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> GEEK ALERT!!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The production and distribution of N2 while easy to do probably uses 10-100% more energy to produce and deliver then the air at the local petrol station. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">N2 is used for only one reason and that reason is that as delivered the N2 is 99.999% dry meaning it is free of the moisture that is naturally occurring in the air from the petrol station. The water in the air we breath can cause a good bit of pressure variation as the tyre heats up and that is why race teams use N2, no moisture.. Most of the air we breathe is N2 any way in fact 78.08% is nitrogen, the rest is 20.94% oxygen, .05% carbon dioxide, and .93% argon etc. So, it is the water that causes the issue not the gases..</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">So get a good dryer on your compressor and you can pass the N2..;-)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Cheers,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Duc</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ducdude, post: 17465, member: 2077"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Hi John,[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Thanks for your data. Interestingly the N2 you are filling your tyres with has nothing to do with global warming or the size of the N2 molecule..[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] GEEK ALERT!![/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]The production and distribution of N2 while easy to do probably uses 10-100% more energy to produce and deliver then the air at the local petrol station. [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]N2 is used for only one reason and that reason is that as delivered the N2 is 99.999% dry meaning it is free of the moisture that is naturally occurring in the air from the petrol station. The water in the air we breath can cause a good bit of pressure variation as the tyre heats up and that is why race teams use N2, no moisture.. Most of the air we breathe is N2 any way in fact 78.08% is nitrogen, the rest is 20.94% oxygen, .05% carbon dioxide, and .93% argon etc. So, it is the water that causes the issue not the gases..[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]So get a good dryer on your compressor and you can pass the N2..;-)[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Cheers,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Duc[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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