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[Lambdb]

Ozone can easily ( though not feasibly) be produced via electrolyis of H20 or through dry O2 and electricty.

Now if ozone depletion is being destroyed by CFC's and brominated organics, would a stop gap measure be simply pumping up newly created 03 to the stratosphere?

Just thinking out loud as I had an interesting conversation on the subject today..

Thoughts?

[lewislee19]

The generation of ozone involves the intermediate formation of atomic oxygen radicals which can react with molecular oxygen. All processes that can dissociate molecular oxygen into oxygen radicals are potential ozone generation reactions. Energy sources that make this action possible are electrons or photon quantum energy. Electrons can be used from high-voltage sources in the silent corona discharge, from nuclear sources, and from electrolytic processes. Suitable photon quantum energy includes UV light of wavelengths lower than 200 nm and γ-rays.

Many potential advantages are associated with electrolytic generation, including the use of low-voltage DC current, no feed gas preparation, reduced equipment size, possible generation of ozone at high concentrations, and generation in the water,eliminating the ozone-to-water contacting processes. Problems and drawbacks of the method include: corrosion and erosion of the electrodes, thermal overloading due to anodic over-voltage and high current densities, need for special electrolytes or water with low conductivity, and with the in-site generation process, incrustations and deposits are formed on the electrodes, and production of free chlorine is inherent to the process when chloride ions are present in the water or the electrolyte used.

[djack77494]

Ozone at ground level contributes to ground level pollution and smog. Only when you can get the ozone high into the atmosphere does it "change" from bad to good ozone. I don't think there is a good way to get large quantities of ozone into the upper atmosphere.

[Lambdb]

dJack,

That was the big roadblock we had noted too.

Nanotube transportation perhaps?

[djack77494]

Lambdb,
In the minds of some people, this would sound like a plan. Sort of like deep ocean sequestration of CO2.

[jazdmarkets2]

Ozone is the safety to us for direct sunlight . In the excess of the ozone the dangerous for us and low ozone should also. then the proper limit is suitable for useful to us .

Sushil Kumar

[Lambdb]

So to try this essentially we need an small ozone factory that can operate at high altitude onboard a uav so that the Ozone can be introduced at the proper altitude.

How many tons of O3 do we need to replace in a given area?
Any takers?

It seems the Earths average is about 300 Dobson Units. A column of air with an ozone concentration of 1 Dobson Unit would contain about 2.69x10¹⁶ ozone molecules for every square centimeter of area at the base of the column.

Ozone holes I believe have an average of 100 Dobson units.