Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS] Energy policy--or why we shouldn't have one. Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:16:40 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 10:37:10 -0500, Robert Goodman wrote: > Human-released, not human-created. (Mostly not even human= released.) Yep . Just ancient stored solar . -- >=A0bob@cosy.com wrote, > G. Triest. wrote: >=A0=A0>> Plus, I seriously wonder if ozone is the only ultraviolet >=A0=A0>>shielding gas we have in our atmosphere. > >=A0=A0>Actually , by the fact that the ozone is PRODUCED by the= interaction >=A0=A0>of UV with O2 , it's the O2 , not the ozone that consumes the= UV . >=A0=A0>-- >=A0No, O3 is much more UV-dense than is O2. Do you have a ratio ? Then that can be compared with the= enormous ratio G. Triest asserts for O2 % O3 to see their relative total absorption . The fact remains , the ozone is created by UV acting on O2 . I know this experientially from seeing the glowing generators and sniffing the pleasant clean smell of this pollutant . ( Funny , the eco-irrationals fret over excess ozone in the= lower atmosphere , even over forests . Seems to me that should= reassure them that if it isn't stopped in the upper atmosphere , the UV will be stopped in the much denser lower . ) -- =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 http://CoSy.com/K/CoSy.htm : New Web structure &=A0Release http://CoSy.com/Homes : Building Affordable Homes in NYC =A0 =A0 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02002/04/29 12:40:25 PM