Dumb question. The ozone layer is being depleted, creating a hole and thinning.?

Why can't we produce large quantities of ozone to release to try to replenish this very important and needed elementDumb question. The ozone layer is being depleted, creating a hole and thinning.?
The energy required to create this ozone would not help the rest of the atmospheric balance, and as first answerer said: preventing the damage is the easy option.





The ozone hole has already improved with current measures but will take a few decades to recover.





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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_holeDumb question. The ozone layer is being depleted, creating a hole and thinning.?
Because it is difficult to produce in large quantities, and to get ozone up to the stratosphere, where it will actually be blocking UV rays instead of polluting our atmosphere. (yes, ozone is a pollutant in the lower atmosphere).





Plus, it doesn't really matter because 1 CFC molecule can degrade thousands of O3 molecules, so the most realistic solution is to reduce the amount of CFCs we release instead of trying to pump ozone into our stratosphere.
Big numbers when you talk about the atomsphere.





For instance - the whole atmosphere weighs 5,800 trillion tons.