Nitrous Oxide Cited as a Major Threat to the Ozone Layer. Not Good.

[cjforumadmin]

http://www.bangshift.com/blog/Nitrous-Oxide-Cited-As-Major-Threat-To-Ozone-Layer-Not-Good.html

[studemax]

Re: Nitrous Oxide Cited as a Major Threat to the Ozone Layer. Not Good.

I tend to be skeptical of anything "Time" publishes, and "Science Daily" is suspect as a "news service", not a research publication. They didn't even mention its use in dentistry... which may be a good thing.

[SpiderGearsMan]

Re: Nitrous Oxide Cited as a Major Threat to the Ozone Layer. Not Good.

JUNK SCIENCE

[38P]

Re: Nitrous Oxide Cited as a Major Threat to the Ozone Layer. Not Good.

JUNK SCIENCE

Maybe, but it has captured the power structure in most of the developed world.

Dinitrogen monoxide (a/k/a nitrous oxide) has long been one of the targeted "greenhouse gasses" (GHGs) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Kyoto Protocol). http://www.grdp.org/business/topics/pollution/440.aspx]See e.g. http://www.grdp.org/business/topics/pollution/440.aspx [/url] It's just that the battle over CO2 and Methane (both of which are more "common" emissions than N20) has taken most of the focus.

Thus, there's really not much new here.

And because motorsports is not the largest generator of atmospheric N2O releases, we have not been a primary regulatory target thus far.

That will certainly change as easier and cheaper means for reductions of GHGs are exploited, other emitters look for "cap & trade"-style offsets, and/or the political winds shift against motorsports. (That's something to think about the next time you're gratuitiously purging your "spray" out in public)

At some point, any technology which increases the ability to react carbon-based fuels more than OEM levels will become highly regulated, if not banned outright. That became inevitable when the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 2007 that the EPA had both the authority and the obligation under the Clean Air Act to regulate GHGs in the case of Massachusetts v. E.P.A. http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinio...df/05-1120.pdf

[Matt Cramer]

Re: Nitrous Oxide Cited as a Major Threat to the Ozone Layer. Not Good.

Yet another reason why you should never lean out a nitrous motor. Wouldn't want any unused N2O escaping along with your connecting rods.