Benin Smog Pollution
Benin Smog Pollution
Pobo Benin
Saturday, September 16, 2006
I think I finally have learned why the motorcycles of Benin spew so much smoke from their exhaust. It is amazing the amount, I was sick the last day in Contonou, the smell was too much, and the fumes were bad. It is a low leave monoxide problem for sure.
I am not sure, there are many names for gas or petrol on the planet, they call this GasOil, I am not sure, however I believe this is a low octane, oil heavy gas they sell. I saw a normal gas station; however, these seem to be the standard.
The siphon the gas from big, to smaller, to smaller to liter bottle to a motorcycle.
Benin Smog Pollution
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It appears to be fuel for 2-stroke engines which African-Asian motorcycles most often are apparently. Gasoline-motor oil mixture for fuel. 2-strokes have "smoggier" emmisions than 4-strokes, which is why they have being phased out in the U.S.A rencently. An advantage of a 2-stroke is greater engine power for a given engine displacement and cheaper cost...but there are are environmental bills to pay for shortcuts.
The solution would be to convert these to ethanol operation in my opinion. Exhaust would be mainly carbon dioxide and water then. Good work is being done in India, Brazil and the United States and Canada to make this a reality. The Internet Biofuels and Biomass Stoves lists are places to find ethanol fuel researchers. Very interesting.
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