Ok why hasn't anyone thought of using a filter outside in every major city? And put a powerful motor in that is like the kind of air cleaners u can get in your home. Could that work? And What could we do 2 restore the ozone layer? fordguy101

 

Probably gotta be pretty dagon expensive to run a massive air filter. And who would pay for it...us, in taxes.

Good idea, in concept, but i don't think it'd work all that well in the long run.

EDIT: Keep thinkin, though, I can tell you're a thinker.

 

That's what trees, rain, and soil are for.

 

You also need to talk to the Sun and request that it control it's heat and radiation output a little better.

 

Yeah but there aren't many trees left. Thanks guys any more? fordguy101

 

Good God...

Imagine an entire country that smelled like "Lemon Scented Glade"!

I prefer things as they are, thank you kindly...

 

So say some. Others say there are more trees in the US now than when the Europeans started arriving.

 

You need to check history. Fire, in the past kept trees/forest in check. Man, has decided that fire is a bad thing and trees grow in places they were burnt up in before. More trees today than in the past. And last I checked, trees are a renewable resource.

 

I suppose we could all stop polluting -

But I don't see how it could be made practical.

(He says, while remembering his last long bicycle ride)

 

I have a buddy that gets ideas like that when he smokes them left-handed cigarettes and drinks his Butwiser.

 

Also the rainforest (Amazon) has alot to do with cleaning up the air, but it's being cut down at an alarming rate, for farming.

Where do you think the majority on medicines came from; the rainforest.

See what happened to Yellowstone N.P. when man prevented natural forest fires from cleaning all of the dead underbrush.

2 million acres later...

And those yearly fires in Southern Ca.

More people equal more polution.

 

I wonder how much pollution running these huge powerful motors would cause how about the embodied energy in producing the filters.

 

Kinda like spending 5 bucks to make 4.

 

Running a giant filter in every city would be kind of pointless. We would expend so much energy on the motor that we would create more pollution than we cleaned up. Also, where does one dispose of this filter? I'm personally not worried about the ozone layer. Does anyone else find it ironic that there was never a giant hole in the ozone layer until man had the technology to discover that indeed there was a hole there? Hippies love to blame humans for destroying the ozone layer, but for all they know that hole had been there for millions of years. Man's consumption of fossil fuels and pollution, by numbers, is dwarfed by volcanic eruptions. Every time a volcano erupts, millions of tons of carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide (ozone killer), CO2, various compounds of sulfur, and a whole bunch of other things are released into the atmosphere. Nature pollutes more than we do, but it's managed to survive pretty well for, oh, a couple BILLION years. We play a miniscule part in the corruption of our atmosphere. As far as getting the ozone back? Good luck. You're gonna have to lock about 100 geniuses in a room together to figure out an efficient and SAFE way of releasing ozone (and a WHOLE lot of it) into the atmosphere. It's not feasible as it is, considering the energy required to make ozone, as it only occurs under intense UV light or very high voltage, not to mention the fact that exposure to concentrated amounts of ozone is lethal. Again, we'd have a negative benefit. It's best to let nature run its course.

 

fbodyfan, maybe hippies created that hole in the ozone layer from the smoke of those funny little hand rolled cigarettes.