Fuck dem everythings
I read the article it says the lobbying organisation behind air con, etc, doesn’t actually want this. They’d rather investment went towards newer tech as supplies of the old materials are dwindling.
Also we’ve already been selling equipment with the new shit for years in anticipation of phasing out the older stuff. Now we just get a few more years of limbo where noone knows what’s going to happen.
But also let me take this opporitunity to get on my soapbox. The new refrigerants are a BS half measure. We should just be going all the way to A3 hydrocarbons instead of this A2L crap. Hydrocarbons are way less environmentally damaging, and vastly superior refrigerants in every way except flamability. Sure it’s a risk having a couple pounds of liquified propane in your house, but there are easy ways to mitigate that risk. A2Ls already require leak detection and pump down mechanisms so it would just be the same in that regard. Plus how much more risky is it than the 30lbs of liquified propane a bunch of people already have sitting under grills directly adjacent to their house.
Like the whole administration’s motto/mission statement is literally just “Fuck you, that’s why.”
Yes, please, let’s continue speedrunning the end of life on earth due to a runaway climate change event.
Something something the Rapture.
At least I will be saved!! 🙏✝️
But of course they did 🖕🤬🤮
Bigger hole in ozone so we can all be orange.
This set of gases was developed because they don’t deplete the ozone so much, but they’re incredibly potent greenhouse gases, which is why there’s an effort to end their use.
Right. One issue is that the US’s glidepath towards low GWP includes significant HFO usage (which is a PFAS) rather than speedrunning natural refrigerants which are the only sustainable long term solution. So we’ll likely have more warming, but less PFAS as a result of this, along with higher costs and more uncertainty. The focus needs to be on natural refrigerants though long term.
If no one else joins them then wouldn’t systems made in the US be difficult to export to any developed countries?
The US doesn’t actually make anything besides idiots though do they?
It is currently exporting lots of nice, smart people though.
