2006-09-03 21:50:50 · 9 answers · asked by guharamdas 5 in Environment
Not at a price that anyone would consider worth paying. Ozone can be made by electrostatic discharge in air, but it is not stable -- and, in the case of the ozone layer, that is the problem: it is attacked by halocarbon compounds and degraded to oxygen. Ozone is produced in the upper atmosphere by ultraviolet radiation acting on oxygen molecules, and an equilibrium exists between its creation and its degradation either by halocarbons or otherwise. Rockets are VERY costly.
2006-09-03 21:56:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can manufacture ozone.
No it is not practical to distribute it into the atmosphere with rockets. The smoke and gases emitted by the rocket propellant do more harm than the ozone benefit you might achieve. Consider the quantities involved... How many cubic feet of ozone could you carry in a rocket? How many cubic feet of ozone are required to significantly change the atmosphere back toward what it used to be? My guess is that several trillion trillion cubic feet of ozone might be needed. That is a lot with capital letters.
Maybe we should take all the passenger jet aircraft in the world and fill them with ozone tanks and have them fly around the world spraying out ozone gas along with their polluting exhaust gas emissions. We might get two percent of the job done but air travel would go to heck in a hand basket. No government would step forward to pay the cost anyway.
Your best solution is to stop cutting the rain forests around the world, plant new forests everywhere, and stop clear cutting vast areas of trees. If everyone on the earth planted 500 trees we might make it.
2006-09-06 10:41:23 · answer #2 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible to produce ozone by certain chemical processes as ozone is used in wastewater treatment to inactivate bacteria and microorganisms. However, ground leve ozone is generally a major irritant (causes eye irritation) and is pollutive (causing smogs and the like). So, it is generally not produced in large quantities.
To manufacture it and release into the sky would cause pollution and harm plant and animal life, including human life, at ground level. The only way you can spread ozone in the sky is by getting the rockets to go up into the stratosphere. That is not practical because getting rockets into the sky is highly expensive as is. And the full effects of what would happen are not clear.
2006-09-04 05:18:13 · answer #3 · answered by AM 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but it would cost billions of dollars. Ozone is made everytime lightning strikes. The ozone layer is mending itself already, so it doesn't need our help.
2006-09-04 05:09:30 · answer #4 · answered by uselessadvice 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you want to? As expressed above, the sun creates ozone every minute of every day.
2006-09-05 19:50:19 · answer #5 · answered by daedgewood 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no-too costly-too polluting- the ozone making process will just increase the hole
2006-09-04 05:18:19 · answer #6 · answered by K Gupta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Think of how concentrated it would have to be. That's just prob. #1.
2006-09-04 04:53:13 · answer #7 · answered by Gremlin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.emanator.demon.co.uk/bigclive/ozone.htm
2006-09-04 04:56:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if we could we would, but we can't so we won't.
that means no i think
2006-09-04 04:58:08 · answer #9 · answered by grams 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋