Actually, the manufacture of the ozone would be supremely easy. The delivery of it would be difficult, not only for reasons mentioned, but for making sure it doesn't get released near the surface. Remember, ozone isn't exactly what people like to breathe... I lived in Southern California for a number of years, and one of the key air quality alerts was the ozone alert.
I actually had a discussion with my scientist father on this, and he said it was definitely doable. Perhaps an orbital or suborbital with LOX tanks, perhaps something along the lines of the ones mentioned above, but eminently doable. The problem was not, he felt, lack of need or technical difficulty, but one more based on politics. Since it's a worldwide problem, it's more a question of who wants to take the burden of the solution, with no immediate financial or political returns. Even in "green" states or countries, it's not exactly viewed as the best way to get re-elected.
This will probably be addressed when it reaches crisis levels... by the stage that we're able to recover from it, one would hope. Who knows... with the private attempts at spaceflight, we may even have a private solution to this, before we have a government solution...
True enough... and if you programmed on punch-cards, you got a much better understanding of the structure of FORTRAN, and why it was designed that way.
COBOL too... interesting that it hasn't been mentioned in either the article, or the comments I've read so far. *grin*
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I actually had a discussion with my scientist father on this, and he said it was definitely doable. Perhaps an orbital or suborbital with LOX tanks, perhaps something along the lines of the ones mentioned above, but eminently doable. The problem was not, he felt, lack of need or technical difficulty, but one more based on politics. Since it's a worldwide problem, it's more a question of who wants to take the burden of the solution, with no immediate financial or political returns. Even in "green" states or countries, it's not exactly viewed as the best way to get re-elected.
This will probably be addressed when it reaches crisis levels ... by the stage that we're able to recover from it, one would hope. Who knows ... with the private attempts at spaceflight, we may even have a private solution to this, before we have a government solution...
COBOL too ... interesting that it hasn't been mentioned in either the article, or the comments I've read so far. *grin*