Artificial ozone holes

TL;DR

This paper explores a method to artificially create ozone holes over large areas by using bromine plates to dissociate ozone molecules through sunlight, potentially enabling large-scale surface disinfection.

Contribution

It proposes a novel approach to artificially form ozone-depleted regions using bromine plates, detailing the required quantities and mechanism for large-scale disinfection.

Findings

Four tons of bromine needed for 10,000 km² ozone hole

Each bromine plate destroys ozone in 100 m²

Sunlight dissociates bromine, killing ozone molecules

Abstract

This article considers an opportunity of disinfecting a part of the Earth surface, occupying a large area of ten thousand square kilometers. The sunlight will cause dissociation of molecular bromine into atoms; each bromine atom kills thirty thousand molecules of ozone. Each bromine plate has a mass of forty milligrams grams and destroys ozone in the area of hundred square meters. Thus, to form the ozone hole over the area of ten thousand square kilometers, it is required to have the total mass of bromine equal to the following four tons.