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Will man mimick nature to power the hydrogen economy?













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RE: Big !
By drank12quartsstrohsbeer on 2/19/2008 1:32:14 PM , Rating: -1
If you don't think ground level ozone is a problem, I guess you have never been to Los Angeles or Atlanta in the summer.
Although ozone pollution is formed mainly in urban and suburban areas, it ends up in rural areas as well, carried by prevailing winds or resulting from cars and trucks that travel into rural areas. Significant levels of ozone pollution can be detected in rural areas as far as 250 miles (150 km) downwind from urban industrial zones

RE: Big !
By SilentSin on 2/19/2008 2:08:24 PM , Rating: 2
Actually I used to live in Raleigh where this was an increasing problem during summer. So while that is a problem, it is a problem stemming from other gases than pure oxygen (which is what is being produced here). Ground level ozone that is man-made is a result of not oxygen, but rather Nitrogen Oxides which are a main ingredient in car exhaust. When the NOx gases mix with other elements in the atmosphere and are exposed to high amounts of heat, ground based O3 occurs. However, even ground-based O3 does not have a long life as many materials found in buildings (such as paints, carpets, etc) will help to quicken breakdown of O3 back into O2 or other oxygen carrying molecules. Oxygen is a pretty reactive element which is why it is found in so many different compounds, O3 is a particularly unstable molecule and so would not last in that state for too long. It's only when there's an enormous amount of it being created all at once that the atmosphere can't handle it naturally and it becomes a problem for humans.

I just googled ozone and came up with this, give it a read if you wish:

