In my other non-Prius nerd life when I'm not pruning trees and making gardens beautiful I'm all about forestry and forest protection and am especially excited about this particular post I uploaded today because no one else has written about how forests help produce hydroxides. An excerpt of the post below. If you want to read the post in its entirety go here: Older Forests Boost Climate Cleaning Hydroxides (OH) - Registry of Forest Protection Foresters =================================== ============================== Runaway greenhouse gas emissions would be far worse if it wasn’t for the wonderful atmospheric molecule OH: “It initiates the reactions that break down airborne pollutants and helps to remove noxious chemicals such as sulfur dioxide and nitric oxide, which are poisonous gases, from the atmosphere,” said Christian George, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Lyon in France and lead author of the new study.” Light Shed on How the Atmosphere Cleans Itself | Technology Networks It has long been thought that OH can only be produced from a catalyst of sunlight or from transition metals, like Nickel (Ni). But a recent paper published has discovered that OH can be produced without sunlight and without transition metals by way of the electrical field on the surface of raindrops:
