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produce more ozone pollution than all of California’s tens of millions of cars, combined Because cars don't fucking produce ozone. In many cases the concentrat
by causality0 4y ago
produce more ozone pollution than all of California’s tens of millions of cars, combined
Because cars don't fucking produce ozone. In many cases the concentration of ozone at a car's exhaust is lower than at its intake. I'm so tired of this statement being trotted out in articles about two-stroke engines. It's like saying a single poultry farm emits more rotten eggs than a whole state's dairy farms combined.
- cplusplusfellow 4y agoWell said. I get so tired of these also.
- ericd 4y agoIt's reasonable to point out that even though they're both gas engines, one produces an absurd multiple of the more volatile pollutants of the other.
- SigmundA 4y agoNitrogen oxides and VOC/Hydrocarbons along with sunlight form ozone, its doesn't come directly out of the exhaust. Carbureted two-stroke engines emit large quantities of hydrocarbons compared four-stroke even without emissions gear like a cat. This is due to the the intake and exhaust port being open together for a period of time on a two-stroke, certain amount of unburned fuel goes directly out the exhaust, this is why they are so bad. It's the VOC they are emitting that can then form ozone.
- causality0 4y agoPointing out two-stroke engines produce dangerous amounts of ozone is great. Using a numerical comparison to cars in order to generate fear in the reader is moronic and manipulative.
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