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Quote by: Pale RIder OK.
A Boeing 747 has four General Electric CF-6 turbofan engines. The flow rate of a CF6 is about 1300 pounds per second. At .0807 pounds per square foot, the flow through the engine is about 16,109 cubic feet per second or 966,542 cubic feet per minute. In an hour, a CF6 engine will flow about 57,992,260 cubic feet of air. There are 4 engines on a 747 which would make the amount of air flowing through the engines roughly two hundred and thirty one million, nine hundred and seventy thousand, two hundred and sixty cubic feet per hour.
Now if a single airliner is destroying almost 232 million cubic feet of ozone per hour, how many cans of CFC do you suppose would have to be used in order to equal that amount times the number of planes in the air at any given moment 24 / 7 / 365? Also, since CFC's are quite a bit heavier than air, exactly how much of each ounce of propellant do you suppose actually gets up to the ozonosphere.
And since the half life of an O3 molecule is only 7minutes, what the hell difference do you think that tearing one down makes anyway? O3 is the result of UV transferring energy to O2. It is that energy transfer that keeps us from burning up, not the O3. When I said that the half life of an O3 molecule was 7 minutes, that time is if it is in a vaccum tube in a lab. In the actual atmosphere, the O3 molecule lasts until it is struck by more UV radiation at which time it ionizes into O and then regroups as either O2 or O3. It is the energy transfer that stops the UV, not the gas itself. The ozone layer can not be worn out anymore than the surf can be worn out.
The ozone scare has always been a lie. If they will lie to you for money about something so easy to verify , how much more will they lie to you on the tough stuff that is worth potentially so much more money to them in the form of grants? |
So you're claiming that all the air that could possible pass through the engines would be oxidised and not a single bit of oxygen is left?
Did you know that a single Chlorine radical released from a CFC is capable of destroying 100,000 O3 molecules before it forms a stable product which leaves the atmosphere?
Do you know how many tonnes of CFC was released into the atmosphere?