OT Don't read this (was Re: Altair MBL source)

[Bjørn Vermo]

On Tue, 03 May 2005 09:08:50 +0200, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:

>> So if halon is really so benign, why did they ban it?
>
> There's a big difference between "directly harmful to humans" and
> "damages the ozone layer".
>
> Though the scientific evidence for the latter is sketchy at best.
>
> Is it really banned?  I though it was still in use.
>

It was banned by international treaty many years ago, although some  
countries were dragging their feet about implementing it.
There was a heated discussion about how a theoretical environmental  
problem (after all, the Halon was not supposed to be released unless there  
was a real fire) overruled a real danger to human life (replacing Halon  
with CO2 poses a great risk to anybody who does not get out before it is  
released).

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Bjørn