TV screen gas (nitrogen trifluoride) is worse than coal
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The rising demand for flat-screen televisions may have a greater
impact on global warming than the world's largest coal-fired power
stations, a leading environmental scientist has warned.
Manufacturers use a greenhouse gas called nitrogen trifluoride to make
the televisions. As the sets have become more popular, annual
production of the gas has risen to about 4000 tonnes.
As a driver of global warming, nitrogen trifluoride is 17,000 times
more potent than carbon dioxide, yet no one knows how much of it is
being released into the atmosphere by the industry, said Michael
Prather, director of the environment institute at the University of
California.
Dr Prather's research reveals that production of the gas, which
remains in the atmosphere for 550 years, is "exploding" and is
expected to double by next year. Unlike common greenhouse gases such
as carbon dioxide, sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) and perfluorocarbons
(PFCs), emissions of the gas are not restricted by the Kyoto Protocol
or similar agreements.
Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, Dr Prather and a
colleague, Juno Hsu, state this year's production of the gas was
equivalent to 67 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, with "a potential
greenhouse impact larger than that of the industrialised nations'
emissions of PFCs or SF6, or even of the world's largest coal-fired
power plants".
Concerns have led Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology to avoid using
the gas, but Air Products, which produces it for the electronics
industry, claims very little nitrogen trifluoride is released into the
atmosphere.
V for Vendicar
<simple_...@yahoo.com> wrote
> Manufacturers use a greenhouse gas called nitrogen trifluoride to make
> the televisions. As the sets have become more popular, annual
> production of the gas has risen to about 4000 tonnes.
>
> As a driver of global warming, nitrogen trifluoride is 17,000 times
> more potent than carbon dioxide
In other words the release is equivalent to the release of 68 million tonnes
of CO2,
Meanwhile the world is emitting 36,000 million tonnes of CO2 per year.
So this newly recognized source represents a whopping 0.2% of global
greenhouse emissions.
Meanwhile the AmeriKKKan people remain Innumerate and Ignorant.
simple_...@yahoo.com
wrote:
> Meanwhile the AmeriKKKan people remain Innumerate and Ignorant.
Nobody is perfect, but they seem perfect when compared with Muslims.
Have you learned anything from your campaign of hate and spam on the
newsgroups? You were doomed to fail because you were and still are
driven by irrational hate of kuffars. I do not hate anyone, but I hate
bad ideas including Islam.
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your
anger.” - Siddhartha Gautama = Buddha
beavith
and you merely can't read.
reread the last paragraph of the original post.
maybe there wold be something of a problem if all the NF3 fabricated
was released (like SF6). practically none is. its too expensive.
it should be noted, too, that plasma and flat panel TVs use less
electricity than CRTs, so there's a plus added to the plasma side...
V for Vendicar
> Meanwhile the AmeriKKKan people remain Innumerate and Ignorant.
<simple_...@yahoo.com> wrote
> Nobody is perfect, but they seem perfect when compared with Muslims.
And that is why Bushie decided to murder 1,000,000 secular Iraqi
civilians - many Christian.