RoadRunner6
10-25-2008, 08:31 PM
The Manufacture of LCD HDTV's Causes Global Warming, Soon to be Banned!
A recent AP story states:
"......The manufacture of LCD screens involves a chemical whose gas is thousands of times better at trapping atmospheric heat than carbon dioxide. That gas, nitrogen triflouride, is on the rise......Nitrogen trifluoride previously has been considered such a small problem that it's generally been ignored. The gas is used as a cleaning agent during the manufacture of liquid crystal display television and computer monitors and for thin-film solar panels.
Earlier efforts to determine how much nitrogen trifluoride is in the air dramatically underestimated the amounts, said Ray Weiss, a geochemistry professor with Scripps Institution of Oceanography and lead author on a nitrogen trifluoride paper. It is set to be published in Geophysical Letters in November. Nitrogen trifluoride levels in the air — measured in parts per trillion — have quadrupled in the last decade and increased 30-fold since 1978, according to Weiss, who is also a co-author of the methane paper......Nitrogen trifluoride is one of the more potent gases, thousands of times stronger at trapping heat than carbon dioxide......It was futha noted that LCD's from the Vizio LCD manufacturing company had several times stronger concentration of the nitrogen trifluoride cleaning fluid due to the fact that Vizio contracts their parts from a supplier in Detroit.....LCD displays from Panasonic are not affected because they clean their parts with Windex....."
RR6 :22:
A recent AP story states:
"......The manufacture of LCD screens involves a chemical whose gas is thousands of times better at trapping atmospheric heat than carbon dioxide. That gas, nitrogen triflouride, is on the rise......Nitrogen trifluoride previously has been considered such a small problem that it's generally been ignored. The gas is used as a cleaning agent during the manufacture of liquid crystal display television and computer monitors and for thin-film solar panels.
Earlier efforts to determine how much nitrogen trifluoride is in the air dramatically underestimated the amounts, said Ray Weiss, a geochemistry professor with Scripps Institution of Oceanography and lead author on a nitrogen trifluoride paper. It is set to be published in Geophysical Letters in November. Nitrogen trifluoride levels in the air — measured in parts per trillion — have quadrupled in the last decade and increased 30-fold since 1978, according to Weiss, who is also a co-author of the methane paper......Nitrogen trifluoride is one of the more potent gases, thousands of times stronger at trapping heat than carbon dioxide......It was futha noted that LCD's from the Vizio LCD manufacturing company had several times stronger concentration of the nitrogen trifluoride cleaning fluid due to the fact that Vizio contracts their parts from a supplier in Detroit.....LCD displays from Panasonic are not affected because they clean their parts with Windex....."
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