Increasing levels of nitrogen trifluoride use, as so heavily used in the North Pacific electronics market, may be having a negative effect on the environment and actually speeding-up climate change, according to the findings of a recent journal study.
LCD TV’s for example, are praised as being greener than old-style television sets because they consume much less power, and represent a significant market sector in North Pacific rim countries such as Japan, China and Taiwan.
These may actually be speeding climate change though, a chemical expert has warned.
Michael Prather of the University of California at Irvine has completed a study which claims that atmospheric quantities of the gas nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) are booming, reporting the findings in the latest issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
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