PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
... the foodservice, medical, janitorial, and light industrial markets around the globe. Contact: Michael Prather Corporate Communications Tradex International, Inc. Phone: 800.456.8370 ext. 48 Fax: 216-651-4770 Mobile: 440-668-7658
Driive (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
If you want to fight global warming, don't buy a flat-screen TV. The nitrogen triflouride used in their production could have a greater impact on climate change than coal-fired power stations. That's the message from Michael Prather, director of the environment institute at the University of California, Irvine, who points out that with demand for the new technology "exploding", so is...
PSD Blog - World Bank Group (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Michael Prather, a researcher at University of California, Irvine, warns that flat-screen televisions may be a dire threat to the climate. According to an article in the Guardian: Manufacturers use a greenhouse gas called nitrogen trifluoride to make the televisions...As a driver of global warming, nitrogen trifluoride is 17,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Air Products, one...
Nature (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Geophys. Res. Lett.35, L12810 doi:10.1029/2008GL034542 (2008)Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) has been identified before as a greenhouse gas, but the threat it poses has barely been quantified. Michael Prather and Juno Hsu of the University of California,
Webloggin (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Your flat screen TV is contributing to global warming (hat tip: Boortz). A greenhouse gas called nitrogen trifluoride, used to make the TVs, is 17,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide, said Michael Prather, director of the environment institute at the University of California, Irvine. But no one yet knows how much of it is being released [...]
House of Eratosthenes (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
…is contributing to global warming (hat tip: Boortz). A greenhouse gas called nitrogen trifluoride, used to make the TVs, is 17,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide, said Michael Prather, director of the environment institute at the University of California, Irvine. But no one yet knows how much of it is being released into the atmosphere by [...]
CE Pro News (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
07.08.2008 — A chemical used to produce LCDs may be causing global warming, according to a report published in Geophysical Research Letters.Michael Prather, an atmospheric chemist who co-authored the report, is calling Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) a "missing greenhouse gas," saying the chemical could double to 8,000 metric tons in 2009.NF3 is used in chemical vapor deposition to make LCDs,...
Ruscombe Green (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
... dioxide.In a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, atmospheric chemist Michael Prather called nitrogen trifluoride, or NF3, "the missing greenhouse gas," and warned that the climate could suffer as the chemical is produced in ever greater amounts to meet soaring demand for LCD displays. If all of the NF3 produced in 2008 were released into the atmosphere, it...
Daily Tech (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The compound nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) is a "missing greenhouse gas" that may have an impact 17,000 times as great as carbon dioxide, according to a new study by atmospheric chemist Michael Prather, Geophysical Research Letters on June 26.The compound is used in the production of Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Panels, in semiconductors, and in synthetic diamonds. According to Prather,...
Techotic (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) is a gas often used in the making of flat screen televisions, which is said to be behind the accelerating of global warming. Professor Michael Prather from the University of California wrote an article entitled “Going Below Kyoto’s Radar” about the effect of NF3 on the environment for New Scientist estimates that [...]
The Four-eyed Journal (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
... yet no one knows how much of it is being released into the atmosphere by the industry, said Michael Prather, director of the environment institute at the University of California, Irvine. Ah the self-conflicts of having eco-friendly principles and living in a consumerist, hi-tech world. I’m going to look into this a little further, like when I go out window-shopping again for a flat-screen...
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
... some 4000 tonnes of the stuff this year, which is the equivalent (according to a paper by authors Michael Prather and Juno Hsu) of a massive 67m tonnes of CO2. Or, says their study, the equivalent of the complete CO2 emissions of a country the size of Austria. Next years output is predicted to double. But unlike carbon dioxide routinely released to the atmosphere in the burning of...
Green Bloggers Digest (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
The Tech Herald reports here : According to professor Michael Prather, director of the environment institute at the University of California (Irvine), some 4,000 tonnes of nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), a gas considered to be 17,000 times more damaging than carbon dioxide (CO2), has already been produced by flat-screen makers during 2008.
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
*Academic casts doubts over big-screen ecological claims Sony's new TVs are said to be green, but professor Michael Prather doesn't agree LCD TV manufacturers have made much of their 'green'...
Wisdom from the Realm (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
... concern and are calling for it to be included in any future emissions cutting agreement. Professor Michael Prather from the University of California has highlighted the issue in an article for the magazine New Scientist. He has told ABC’s The World Today program that output of the gas needs to be measured. “One of my titles for this paper was Going Below Kyoto’s Radar. It’s the kind...
