Freon hoax

[SRavet at bangate.compaq.com]

cloud at peaches.ph.utexas.edu (tom cloud) Wrote:
| 
| >From: "Harvest Trust" <harvest at whitemtns.com>
| >Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 11:23:35 -0700
| >Subject: CAJI! No freon ban in Arizona
| >
| >There is NO freon ban in Arizona.  We proved to our state legislators 
that
| >the ozone holes are a hoax and that freon could not possibly be 
destroying
| >the ozone in the "ionosphere" (correct name as there is NO ozone layer). 

| >And that the so-called ozone holes over the pole experiencing winter 
each
| >winter at each pole are really not holes at all but rather a place where
| >sunlight is not interacting with the oxygen in the atmosphere to produce
| >ozone during the 6 months of darkness.  The little sunlight that manages 
to
| >hit the extreme upper atmosphere where there is little oxygen produces 
only
| >a small amount ot ozone and thus there "seems" to be a hole.  You can do
| >the same in your state if you ban together and kick up the dust.
| >
| >By the way... my radio broadcast was the first in the world to expose 
the
| >ozone hoax with scientific fact in 1992.
| >
| >William Cooper
| >

The Arizona legislature passed a law legalizing the production of R-12, and 
the governor signed it into law, but I don't believe that anyone has 
started manufacturing it, and I don't know what the implications would be 
since it's a treaty signed by the national government that banned R-12 in 
the first place (Montreal protocol).  You can bet that if Dupont or another 
company started manufacturing R-12 or other CFCs, the EPA would be on them 
like a duck on a junebug.  I don't know whether the state would aid in 
their defense or not.  I think it's really more of a symbolic gesture than 
anything else.

As far as the hole over the antarctic, lack of sunlight does not cause the 
hole.  sunlight both creates and destroys ozone, so a lack of sunlight 
basically freezes the process, neither creating or destroying ozone.  That 
said, the EPA has gone way overboard, regulating replacements for R-12 
based on flammability concerns and other things that (IMO) aren't 
"environmental" issues.  BUT, it's cheap, easy, and fun to roll your own 
refrigerants using common hydrocarbons (propane and iso-butane).  It's also 
legal due to silly loopholes in the Clean Air Act.  This isn't EFI related, 
so for more information please see the R-12 FAQ located at 
http://www.dcc.edu/vettenet/acfaq.txt

--steve

Steve Ravet
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