Scheme to repair ozone layer deemed doubtful

Journal Article · Mon May 23 04:00:00 EDT 1994 · Chemical and Engineering News; (United States)

OSTI ID:7274610

Zurer, P

Atmospheric scientists are skeptical that a plasma physicist's highly publicized plan to remove ozone-destroying chlorine from the atmosphere could succeed. What might work under carefully controlled conditions in the laboratory, they say, would fail on a global scale in the vastly more complex real world. University of California, Los Angeles, physics professor Albert Y. Wong proposes reversing the process of ozone depletion by injecting negative charges into the atmosphere. In the lower atmosphere, the charges would destroy chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) before they ever reach the stratospheric ozone layer. Alternatively, charges injected into the stratosphere supposedly would convert the chlorine radicals that catalyze ozone depletion into chloride ions that do not react with ozone.

• OSTI ID: 7274610
• Journal Information: Chemical and Engineering News; (United States), Journal Name: Chemical and Engineering News; (United States) Vol. 72:21; ISSN 0009-2347; ISSN CENEAR
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540120* -- Environment
Atmospheric-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
AIR POLLUTION ABATEMENT
CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS
ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION
LAYERS
ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC FLUORINE COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
OZONE LAYER
POLLUTION ABATEMENT
REPAIR