There are plenty of alternatives, but none are as financially rewarding(nor as efficient?) as the latest-greatest-soon-to-be-banned designer chemicals. Lucrativ

There are plenty of alternatives, but none are as financially rewarding(nor as efficient?) as the latest-greatest-soon-to-be-banned designer chemicals. Lucrative patent revenues, intervals of obsolescensed hardware & retooling/retraining/recertification is highly profitable = good for balance sheets & economic data sets. I find it telling that no chemicals are specified in the article, just the generic term "hydrofluorocarbons". Perhaps the warm fuzzy do-good feeling would be chilled by mentionng that the current approved(mandated) refrigerant R410A, the replacement to R-22, is already slated for replacement due to it's adverse effects to the environment.