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<p class=CM32 style='margin-left:12.4pt;text-indent:-16.5pt'><font size=3
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>They are talking about THIAZYL FLUORIDES, NSF &NSF3 and Derivatives
of such as SF5NH2' SF5NSF2' SF5NSO, SF<sub><span style='position:relative;
top:3.0pt'>5</span></sub>NSCL<sub><span style='position:relative;top:3.5pt'>2</span></sub>,
(SF<sub><span style='position:relative;top:3.5pt'>5</span></sub>N)2SF2' SF<sub><span
style='position:relative;top:3.5pt'>5</span></sub>NCL<sub><span
style='position:relative;top:3.5pt'>2</span></sub>, SF<sub><span
style='position:relative;top:3.5pt'>5</span></sub>NHCL. They are
used in all kinds of cleaning substances used industrially and in our
homes. </span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>As far as its use in solar panel
production – they are common in thin-film type panels – not silicon
crystal type panels. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Here is the article I think you heard –
</span></font></p>
<p><em><b><i><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Greenhouse Gas Comes from Solar
Panels</span></font></i></b></em></p>
<p><em><i><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>Think switching to solar energy will make you
green? Think again. Many of the newest solar panels are manufactured with a gas
that is 17,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide in contributing to global
warming.</span></font></i></em></p>
<p><em><i><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>Nitrogen trifluoride, or NF3, is used for
cleaning microcircuits during the manufacture of a host of modern electronics,
including flat-screen TVs, iPhones, computer chips—and thin-film solar
panels, the latest (and cheapest) generation of solar photovoltaics. (Time
named the panels one of the best inventions of 2008.) Because industry
estimates suggested that only about 2 percent of NF3 ever made it into the
atmosphere, the chemical has been marketed as a cleaner alternative to other
higher-emitting options. For the past decade, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency has actively encouraged its use. NF3 also wasn’t deemed dangerous
enough to be covered by the Kyoto Protocol, making it an attractive substitute
for companies and signatory countries eager to lower their emissions
footprints.</span></font></i></em></p>
<p><em><i><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>It turns out that NF3 might not be so green
after all. “NF3 has a potential greenhouse impact larger than …
even that of the world’s largest coal-fired power plants,”
according to a June 2008 study by researchers at the University of California,
Irvine. Because NF3 isn’t covered by Kyoto, few attempts have been made
to measure it in the atmosphere. But last October, scientists at the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography reported that four times more NF3 is present in the
atmosphere than industry estimates suggest, and its concentration is rising 11
percent a year.</span></font></i></em></p>
<p><em><i><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black'>Compared with the damage caused by CO2
emissions, NF3 remains a blip because far less of it is emitted. But Ray Weiss,
who led the Scripps team, thinks that, unless regulations require more complete
greenhouse gas measurements, more unpleasant surprises will be in store. With
NF3, he says, “We’re finding considerably more in the atmosphere
than was expected. This [gas] won’t be the only example of that.”</span></font></i></em></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Christopher</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Christopher Freitas</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Director of Research and Development
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>OutBack Power Systems, Inc.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="mailto:cfreitas@outbackpower.com"><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>cfreitas@outbackpower.com</span></font></a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Tel 360 435 6030</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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font-family:Arial'><font color=black><span style='color:black'>19009 62<sup>nd</sup>
Ave NE</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'> </span></font></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><font color=black><span style='color:black'>Arlington</span></font><font
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style='color:black'>WA</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>
</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>98223</span></font><font
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style='color:black'>USA</span></font></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span
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re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org
[mailto:re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>holtek@sbcglobal.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 06, 2009
12:07 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> RE-wrenches<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [RE-wrenches] NFS3 (or is
it nsf?)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Excuse my ignorance.......</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>there was an article in Sunday's Dallas
Morning News about "solar panels causing greenhouse gases" due
to nsf3 (nfs?) used in cleaning contacts during manufacturing. Paper
already on way to recycle bin, can't bring it up on their website. Can anyone
enlighten me so as to have bullets to shoot down this latest round of
uninformed reporting?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Holt E. Kelly<br>
Holtek Fireplace & Solar Products<br>
500 Jewell Dr.<br>
Waco,Tx. 76712<br>
254-751-9111<br>
254-228-9621 (cell)<br>
<a href="mailto:holtek@sbcglobal.net"><font color=black><span style='color:
black'>holtek@sbcglobal.net</span></font></a><br>
<a href="http://www.holteksolar.com"><font color=black><span style='color:black'>www.holteksolar.com</span></font></a></span></font></p>
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