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It seems that refrigerants get a lot of bad press. In particular in heatpumps. Nobody seems to really cares about the gasses used in refrigerators or aircos in
by phicoh 3y ago
It seems that refrigerants get a lot of bad press. In particular in heatpumps. Nobody seems to really cares about the gasses used in refrigerators or aircos in cars.
Obviously, it is good to ban particularly bad gasses. Freon because of its negative effect on the ozon-layer. The same way some gasses have a very large greenhouse effect and can be replaced by gasses that are better.
If a new technique becomes mature and it has obvious benefits over the existing solution, that it not a bad idea to prohibit the old, poluting way.
- ZeroGravitas 3y ago> Nobody seems to really cares about the gasses used in refrigerators or aircons in cars I believe Project Drawdown selected refrigerant managament as one of the top climate change mitigation strategies: https://drawdown.org/solutions/refrigerant-management https://drawdown.org/solutions/refrigerant-management
- fsh 3y agoOzone-depleting CFCs have been banned world-wide in the 90s, and some HFCs with large global warming potential have been banned for use in cars in both the US and the EU.