At 12:24 PM -0700 1/29/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: >On Jan 29, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Charles Davis wrote: > > Right!! But there was never any effort at figuring out how to speed >> the migration of the Ozone from where it was a bother, to where it >> was (is) needed. > >There's never been any serious effort towards making perpetual motion >machines or flying by flapping our arms like birds, either.
eh. Launch a few butterflies at the hole. >That is akin to saying we could solve the problem of not enough water >in the Sahara, by picking up icebergs with helicopters and dropping >them in the desert. That would be so cool! (no pun intended) >*Ironically, the chlorofluorocarbons that catalyze the ozone depletion >are dangerous *due* to their general inertness and stability...this is >why they were used for the reasons they were used; among other things >this inertness made ideal propellants for aerosol cans, because they >didn't react with the contents And they taste so much better than the new propellants, in my athsma inhalers. >This is also why my asthma inhaler just went from $15 to $60. %...@$!#@ >mother-...@$6 pharmaceutical companies got to patent the use of a non- >CFC propellant, so the drug is a generic, but the stuff to make it >come out of the inhaler? Patented, and thus expensive as hell for a >number of years. Actually... There have been non-CFC albuterol inhalers available outside of the US for quite a few years now. They run $8 to $10 each. The $60 is just our local rape fees. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
