{"id":26113,"date":"2019-09-23T09:07:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T14:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=26113"},"modified":"2019-09-23T09:07:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T14:07:40","slug":"think-your-wind-turbine-electricity-is-green-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/09\/23\/think-your-wind-turbine-electricity-is-green-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Your Wind Turbine Electricity Is Green?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reader writes concerning SF6, the insulating gas used in industrial electrical switchboxes<\/a>, and of possible concern in climate change, as reported in this BBC<\/strong><\/em> story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

One has to wonder if that story was a plant by the hydrocarbon fuel industry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suppose it’s possible. This ScienceDaily<\/strong><\/em> article<\/a> may be of interest:<\/p>\n

Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is a gas whose molecules consist of one sulfur atom and six fluorine atoms.<\/p>\n

It is colorless, odorless, non-toxic, and non-flammable, and is soluble in water and some other liquids.<\/p>\n

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, SF6 is the most potent greenhouse gas that it has evaluated, with a global warming potential of 22,200 times that of CO2 over a 100 year period (for countries reporting their emissions to the UNFCCC, a GWP of 23,900 for SF6 is used as it was decreed at the third Conference of the Parties: GWP used in Kyoto protocol).<\/p>\n

Its mixing ratio in the atmosphere is lower than that of CO2 (about 4 parts per trillion ppt in 1990 versus 365 ppm of carbon dioxide), its contribution to global warming is accordingly low.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The final remark about its mixing ratio, the ratio of some constituent divided by the total of all constituents in a mixture, being low is probably out of date (1990!), and the BBC<\/strong><\/em> story was concern about the future, not today. My inclination is to take the BBC<\/strong><\/em> story at face value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A reader writes concerning SF6, the insulating gas used in industrial electrical switchboxes, and of possible concern in climate change, as reported in this BBC story: One has to wonder if that story was a plant by the hydrocarbon fuel industry. I suppose it’s possible. This ScienceDaily article may be \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26115,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26113\/revisions\/26115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}