Name: 他搞定了空氣！ (He Fixes Air)
Uploaded: 2026-02-11T17:09:23.000Z
Duration: 3 min 8 s

We found a man who is fixing Africa's air pollution with motorbikes.

我們找到一位用機車解決非洲空氣汙染問題的男人。

Engineer was really frustrated with the air quality in his city, Kampala, Uganda.

Engineer 對他所在的烏幹達坎帕拉市的空氣品質感到非常沮喪。

But when he tried to find out how polluted the air was, he realized that no one knew.

但當他試圖瞭解空氣汙染有多嚴重時，他發現沒人知道。

No one knew how polluted the air is, because the sensors to test air quality cost $30,000.

沒人知道空氣有多汙染，因為測試空氣品質的感測器要價 30,000 美元。

This was not just a problem in his city, it was a problem everywhere.

這不只是他所在城市的困擾，而是到處都一樣的問題。

Only seven countries in all of Africa had collected data about air quality.

非洲總共只有七個國家有收集空氣品質的數據。

If you don't know how bad the air is, how can you?

如果你不知道空氣有多糟，你怎麼能知道呢？

This is partly because of the huge cost of setting up air quality monitoring stations.

這部分是因為設置空氣品質監測站的成本非常高昂。

So Engineer worked and worked until he made a device that could test the air for just $150.

所以 Engineer 努力再努力，終於 做出一個只要 150 美元就能測試空氣的裝置。

He made hundreds of these sensors and put them on motorbikes.

他做了數百個這樣的感測器，並將它們裝在機車上。

Because an air sensor on a building can only test one place at one time.

因為建築物上的空氣感測器一次只能測試一個地方。

But if you put one sensor on a motorbike, you can test 100 places in one day.

但如果把一個感測器裝在機車上，一天就可以測試 100 個地方。

Now there are over 150 air sensors all around Uganda on motorbikes, on top of buildings, on top of traffic lights, everywhere.

現在烏幹達各地有超過 150 個空氣感測器，裝在機車上、建築物頂端、紅綠燈頂端，到處都有。

Before, no one knew how polluted the air was.

以前，沒有人知道空氣汙染有多嚴重。

But now everyone knows and they want to fix it.

但現在每個人都知道了，而且他們想解決這個問題。

His invention is making people clean the air.

他的發明正在讓大家淨化空氣。

The government of Uganda has created a new rule to protect the air and have used our data about air pollution to make it happen.

烏幹達政府制定了一項新規定來保護空氣，並利用我們關於空氣汙染的數據來實現這一切。

Because of this incredible idea, google.org awarded Engineer and his team over $3 million in grant money that helped make all of this happened.

因為這個令人難以置信的點子，google.org 頒發了超過 300 萬美元的補助金給這位工程師和他的團隊，幫助他們實現了這一切。

It allowed us help many people and expand many more places, not just in Kampala, but

這讓我們能夠幫助許多人，並擴展到更多地方，不只在坎帕拉，

all over Africa in eight different cities.

We need more people like him, like the motorbike riders, like google.org and the entire community to come together and fix the air we breathe.

我們需要更多像他一樣的人，像這些機車騎士，像 google.org 和整個社群一起努力，來改善我們呼吸的空氣。