A better solution would be for all of us to install vertical tailpipes that
extend to the upper atmosphere thereby replenishing lost ozone as we drive!
Andy
>From: Brad Fornal <toyman@htcomp.net>
>Reply-To: Brad Fornal <toyman@htcomp.net>
>To: Andy Webster <trunkie@hotmail.com>
>CC: spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Cool LBC
>Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 07:44:23 -0500
>
>Now I am a touch confused here,R12 destroys ozone,yet with all this heat
>that
>we are having in Texas,Dallas is encouraging people to carpool because of
>what
>they call an Ozone Action Day, too much ozone in the lower atmosphere from
>all
>the cars running around.Why don't they take a truck and spray our streets
>with
>R12 to thin it out a little,Problem Solved, Brad
>
>Andy Webster wrote:
>
> > I thought the problem with refrigerant was not so much a greenhouse one
>but
> > an ozone one.
> > I remember hearing in an environmental chemistry lecture that one
>molecule
> > of CFC such as R12 destroys around 10,000 ozone molecules in its long
> > lifetime in the upper atmosphere.Can't remember whether it was a free
> > radical reaction or what...
> > Andy
> >
> > >From: Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>
> > >To: RBHouston@aol.com, toyman@htcomp.net
> > >CC: trunkie@hotmail.com, spritenut@Exit109.com,
>spridgets@autox.team.net
> > >Subject: Re: Cool LBC
> > >Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:53:46 -0700 (PDT)
> > >
> > >
> > > > An HVAC guy also told me the new stuff now is
> > > > suspect.
> > >
> > >Yeah, now they're screaming that R-134a is a
> > >greenhouse gas, even though its GWP (Global Warming
> > >Potential) was originally said to be an order of
> > >magnitude lower than anything ever made.
> > >
> > >Regarding DuPonts motivation, it was no doubt
> > >financial, but R-12 was being produced cheaply by
> > >AlliedSignal as Genetron 12 and someone else (Dow?) as
> > >Dynamatron 12. Don't know about the patent thing.
> > >Might be true.
> > >
> > >
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