3 May
2005
3 May
'05
2:23 a.m.
On Tue, 03 May 2005 09:08:50 +0200, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
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).
--
Bj?rn
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.