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It continues to amaze me that (some) people (appear to) believe we have a fixed quantity of ozone and once that's depleted, we're in trouble. From [1, PDF]: "T
by mdpopescu 8y ago
It continues to amaze me that (some) people (appear to) believe we have a fixed quantity of ozone and once that's depleted, we're in trouble.
From [1, PDF]: "These reactions occur continually whenever solar ultraviolet radiation is present in the stratosphere."
[1] https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/assessments/ozone/2010/twentyquestions/Q2.pdf https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/assessments/ozone/2010/twentyq...
- epx 8y agoYeah but every chlorine atom up there is a nanomachine that destroys all ozone molecules it can touch, and it lasts one century in average. So, given enough, no amount of ozone generation can compensate.
- Fjolsvith 8y agoIt seems to me, looking at the chemical reaction whereby a chlorine atom breaks Ozone into two O2 molecules and then two O2 molecules form Ozone, that it actually increases the amount of O2 that is available for forming Ozone.