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Sponsored content: Green chiller is cool choice

Envirotec Magazine

Mackie’s green initiative involves replacing the gases used in its refrigeration plants from HCFC – which have a very high global warming potential – to ammonia, an environmentally-friendly refrigerant that has no impact on global warming or ozone depletion. www.gea.com.

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Measuring NOx in combustion

Envirotec Magazine

The chemiluminescence reaction of ozone and nitric oxide causes the oxidation of nitric oxide (NO) to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) which generates photons that are measured using a photomultiplier tube. Typically, at Signal Group, the flows of ozone and sample are set in a ratio of 10:1. Ozonator design. NO2 converter. Vacuum pump.

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Planned UK spaceports could add significantly to emissions of climate-warming gases

Envirotec Magazine

Although other particulate matter such as alumina is thought to cool the atmosphere, research into rocket launch emissions is inconclusive. The global launch rate has already more than doubled over the past decade, with plans to dispatch a further 2,000 satellites globally by 2030.

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Ice rink alternatives and their environmental impact

AGreenLiving

By 1843, a Punch magazine article featured the first artificial ice rink, “not of frozen water but of a slush of chemicals including hog’s lard and melted sulphur, which smelled abominably.” CFCs and HCFCs are synthetic gases attributed to ozone layer destruction.

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The Overview Effect

Grist

One was the Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, an influential counterculture magazine. In response, NASA began positioning itself as an environmental authority, publicizing its new satellite technology that monitored the oceans, air pollution, and the ozone layer. NASA / Bill Ingalls.