India, Business Wire. Internal combustion engines are consuming all the oxygen on the planet and are the main contributors to the weakening of the ozone layer, leading to global warming and climate changes.
Uruguayan researcher Luis Seguessa recently made an unprecedented statement to the global press, revealing that Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) which are found in automobiles and other modes of transportation are the primary culprits behind the depletion of the ozone layer, global warming, and climate change. This is not solely due to the gases they emit into the atmosphere, but also because of the significant amount of oxygen they consume at alarming rates.
‘A vehicle consumes an average of 50 to 100 liters of air per second. Considering the current vehicle population (560 million units), that's 20 billion liters of air consumed per second on the planet, which is returned to the atmosphere half-burned and explosively. Twenty percent of this (four billion liters per second) is pure oxygen taken from the ozone layer. The figure is so substantial that neither vegetation nor the oceanic platform has time to replenish this loss,’ stated Luis Seguessa during his conferences.
"The ozone layer, aside from being an oxygen reservoir, also acted as a natural blanket protecting us from the extreme cold of outer space and the powerful heat of the sun. By losing it, we are experiencing abrupt temperature changes within the same day, and this trend will intensify. Cataclysmic events such as droughts, floods, tornadoes, and polar ice melt will also increase. The rate of ozone depletion is occurring geometrically, not arithmetically as commonly believed, and within a short period, the planet's significant natural source of oxygen supply, the ozone layer, will be depleted," he emphasized.
Seguessa also highlighted the importance of automotive companies replacing current internal combustion engines with electric or other eco-friendly technologies that don't consume oxygen. He stressed that every individual, whether a child, adult, or elderly person, should commit to planting at least seven trees to increase the volume of oxygen in the atmosphere.
Luis Seguessa, the leader of the Fundación Códigos based in Punta del Este, Uruguay, has been a researcher of climatic phenomena for over twenty years.
Seguessa concluded: 'The innocent are the most affected; our children and grandchildren have the right to live in a world similar to the one we inherited.'