Saturday, July 24, 2010

FOXNews.com - GM's Air Conditioners to Promote Global Cooling

FOXNews.com - GM's Air Conditioners to Promote Global Cooling

Headline is stupidly off, but it's a good article. Basically, Honeywell made a new refrigerant that breaks down in 11 days and is way more efficient. They say the current R-134a that replaced R-12 in the 90s back when we were worried about the ozone layer, takes about 13 years to break down. They also said something that doesn't entirely make sense to me. Something about reducing the amount of refrigerant by more than 99%. I think it means that this gas expands a lot more than the old R-134a, and that is what they mean.

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