Subject: Re: Energy Industry Splits on Warming -Reply -Reply

From: Peter Wolfs <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 07:24:07 GMT

>  Just to fuel the CFC fire a bit...let's not forget that Dupont's patent on
>Freon runs out in a couple of years, thus anyone would have been able
>to manufacture it.

When was Freon invented. In Australia at least patents last 20 years. I
thought CFCs had been around since the 1930's. If so the patent conspiracy
theory is false.

Does anyone actually know and is prepared to tell me for free? Otherwise I
guess I need to to a lexus/nexus patent search (and pay).

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Re: Energy Industry Splits on Warming -Reply -Reply

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From: Robert Sanders <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 04:21:16 GMT

> If I strongly believed in the correctness of the CFC/Ozone theories,
>I'd support the legitimacy of the anti-CFC movement.

  If anyone believes that Dupont wouldn't stoop to creating a crisis for it's
benefit, I suggest you recall William Randoph Hurst (newspaper empire
and owner of paper mills), Dow Chemical, and one other (Monsanto?)
who created the campaign against hemp in the 50s as all stood to lose
money because hemp could be used as paper, without major bleaching
of the pulp (trees, and chemicals), and was very strong (thus taking
money away from the newly created nylon).  Hemp was considered a
major survival crop by many including Thomas Jefferson, George
Washington and the others that wrote the Constitution of the United
States on hemp paper.

  Then there is also the problem with most of the rabbits in southern Chile
being blind...

  Bob