[Milsurplus] Freon vs CO2

[Sheldon Daitch]

Bob,

you are correct in that freons are heavier than air, roughly specific
gravity around 3.08 to 3.25 depending on the freon type.

By the same token, CO2 is 1.55 or thereabouts, and in theory, should
also sink to the ground, but we know that the atmosphere contains
CO2 at high altitudes, too.

Granted, the freon is also quite a bit heavier, but I think there are
measurable concentrations of freon compounds at atmosphere,
and I suspect not all of them are from leaky aircraft  air conditioning
systems.

The real problem with global warming, if it really does exist, is that
none of us today will be around when it becomes a real problem.

73
Sheldon
WA4MZZ

WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:

> You're correct on both counts.  But the groups who caused the Freon variant
> refrigerants to be outlawed are also the ones pushing the global warming scare.
>  The increased release of CO2 and etc. caused by use of much less efficient
> refrigerants will, if you believe them, exacerbate global warming.  Of course
> any reference to the fact that the planet is coming out of a little ice age or
> that the mean temperature has been higher that today's in relatively recent
> history are carefully screened out of all reports.
>
> The reason for my comment earlier about the refrigerant scare being BS was
> that Freon is heavier than air.  When released, it goes down, not up.  Unless
> you have something with enough force to loft a bunch of it, like a volcanic
> eruption or a thermonuclear explosion.  And it wouldn't survive the nuke anyway.
>
> In a message dated 5/4/2005 2:35:36 PM Central Daylight Time, sdaitch at ibb.gov
> writes:
> > I thought the real problem with freon was that it affected the ozone layer,
> > while
> > greenhouse gases were the effect of higher carbon dioxide level, two
> > differenet
> > animals.
> >
> > 73
> > Sheldon
> > WA4MZZ
> >
> > "J. Forster" wrote:
> >
> > >Gordon White wrote:
> > >
> > >>  Incidentally, have you seen that the HCH's that replaced Freon are now
> > an
> > >>environmental no-no? Worse than Freon.
>
> Robert Downs - Houston
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