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Background on refrigerants: The EU bans water-polluting unnatural refrigerants with a high global warming potential, but water-polluting unnatural refrigerants
by darkspirit 4y ago
Background on refrigerants:
The EU bans water-polluting unnatural refrigerants with a high global warming potential,
but water-polluting unnatural refrigerants with low global warming potential (e.g. R1234yf) are unfortunately still permitted for the time being.
Refrigerants from split heatpumps (everything that isn't R290/R744: https://danfoss.com/media/ic5drwy5/gwp-graphic-visual-1120x747px.jpg https://danfoss.com/media/ic5drwy5/gwp-graphic-visual-1120x7... ) endanger water.
Federal Environmental Agency therefore urgently recommends natural refrigerants (R290=propane (monobloc, A+++), R744=CO2): https://twitter.com/Umweltbundesamt/status/1397461367716724736 https://twitter.com/Umweltbundesamt/status/13974613677167247...
Please only buy climate&water-protecting heat pumps with natural refrigerants:
Vaillant aroTHERM plus
Viessmann Vitocal 151-A,150-A,250-A,252-A
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Also please don't burn wood, it's even more harmful to people & environment than gas (#StopFakeRenewables): https://twitter.com/Umweltbundesamt/status/1491731154763923457 https://twitter.com/Umweltbundesamt/status/14917311547639234...
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Use cases of natural refrigerants:
- R290 (climate&water-protecting natural refrigerant propane) is perfect for heat pumps and other household devices:
https://www.vaillant.co.uk/homeowners/products/the-arotherm-plus-air-to-water-heat-pump-71360.html https://www.vaillant.co.uk/homeowners/products/the-arotherm-...
https://live.viessmann.com/en/product-innovations/heat-pump-vitocal.html https://live.viessmann.com/en/product-innovations/heat-pump-...
https://www.swegon.com/uk/products/cooling-and-heating/air-cooled-chillers-and-heat-pumps/bluebox-titan-sky-r0/ https://www.swegon.com/uk/products/cooling-and-heating/air-c...
https://amazon.de/Royal-Catering-Slush-Eis-Maschine-Arbeitszyklus-LED-Beleuchtung/dp/B07FFRB9CY https://amazon.de/Royal-Catering-Slush-Eis-Maschine-Arbeitsz...
- Fridges often have R600a (climate&water-protecting natural refrigerant isobutane).
- Carmakers like Volkswagen have switched to R744 (climate&water-protecting natural refrigerant CO2) or intend to.