Date:         Fri, 11 Jun 1999 14:08:21 -0700
Reply-To:     Randy Bergum <organslave@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         Randy Bergum <organslave@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Who has the real skinny on R-12?
Comments: To: KENWILFY@AOL.COM
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KENWILFY@AOL.COM wrote:

> After spending way too much time reading EPA material about holes in the
> ozone layer, I got to wondering about a couple things.
> First of all how does R-12 (Freon as it used to be called) get tens of
> thousands of feet up into the Stratosphere when it is heavier than air (you
> always check for leaks under the fittings on a car because the stuff sinks
> instead of rising)?

Diffusion.

> How does the EPA know that it takes over 100 years for R-12 to break down
> when it has only been exsistence for a little over 70 years?

They lie.

> How do we know for sure that the hole in the ozone is getting larger when we
> have only been observing it for a relatively short time (50 years or less)?

We don't

> Couldn't it be cyclic getting bigger over a couple hundred years and then
> shrinking again over another couple hundred?

Maybe.

> Why is it taking so long to come up with a replacement for R-12 that is
> satisfactory (EPA literature acknowledges that such a search is going on)
> when it only took the folks who invented R-12 a couple of weeks to invent it
> from scratch back in 1927?

Government mandates = More money.

> Why don't we all just forget about airconditioning and cut the tops
> completely off of our vans and make them convert-a-vans and drive around with
> the wind whipping through our finite number of hairs?

Og no like heat.  Og's mate no like heat worse.  No A/C, no mate, Og unhappy.

> Just wondering...
> Ken Wilford
> Van-Again
> John 3:16

  Randy "Og" Bergum