Old Car Question: Re-Charging or Re-Vamping A/C
I have an '89 Cadillac Fleetwood, and the a/c needs re-charging. Unfortunately, it uses old-style R12 Freon, which isn't legal to manufacture any more. My old service station attendant used to have...
View ArticleQuestions Arise Over Ingredient of Columbia Shuttle Insulation
Questions were raised yesterday about whether the foam that came off the shuttle Columbia's external fuel tank was a problem-plagued formulation that several years ago replaced the original insulating...
View ArticleFrance Asks People to Cut Electric Use 2 hours, 40 minutes ago
PARIS - France's power company asked people to use less electricity Tuesday as some plants were forced to cut output during a Europe-wide heat wave that has fanned wildfires and killed dozens of...
View ArticleHere's Something That Doesn't Happen Every Day {exploding pop...
Here's Something That Doesn't Happen Every Day... HOUSTON (Reuters) - An exploding vending machine turned the coolant freon into phosgene, a poisonous gas used as a chemical weapon in World War One,...
View ArticleThe Shuttle's Achilles Heel: Ideology
The space shuttle Discovery, now in orbit, lost part of its heat-shield as it took off from Cape Canaveral on July 26. Ominously, so did the doomed shuttle Columbia. With Discovery's insulation...
View ArticleThe Shuttle's Achilles Heel: Ideology (re-post with update)
This: The space shuttle Discovery, now in orbit, shook loose some chunks of insulation from its fuel tank as it took off from Cape Canaveral on July 26. This debris, the consistency of pumice stone,...
View ArticleRussian navy: 20 dead from poison in sub accident
The fire safety system on a new Russian nuclear-powered submarine malfunctioned on a test run in the Sea of Japan, spewing chemicals that killed at least 20 people and injured 21 others, officials said...
View ArticleThe Space Shuttle Tragedy's Green Connection
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, said in July that it had found the "smoking gun" that caused the space shuttle Columbia to break apart as it re-entered the...
View ArticleFreon can KILL you
We all take automotive refrigerant (R-12/R-134) as part of the car. But this stuff can KILL YOU. Found out the hard way. Wife was in the car, AC failed, dumped all the freon into the cabin of the car....
View ArticleEPA's Planned Phaseout of Harmful Refrigerant Hits Snag [R-22]
Eighteen months after the Obama administration came out with new rules to stop refrigerants in air conditioners from thinning the Earth's protective ozone layer, an unexpected quirk has divided the...
View ArticleHot and cold air to cost more
The Environmental Protection Agency is continuously proposing new air rules. The new rules will increase the number of bakers and snack food manufacturers who will be required to buy air pollution...
View ArticleThe coming glut in oil – and its impact
Forget America’s fiscal cliff, Europe’s currency troubles or the emerging-markets slowdown. The most important story in the global economy today may well be some good news that isn’t yet making as many...
View ArticleLittle know (or hidden) facts about r410-a, the environmentalist freon
Just encountered this the other day. The freon that we are all being forced to use as they deny us r22, is a disaster. My 1 1/2 ton central system holds 13 lbs of this freon. It was low by only 1/2 a...
View ArticleObama seeks faster phaseout of popular coolant in effort to curb greenhouse...
The Obama administration is preparing to introduce major steps to phase out production of a popular chemical coolant used in refrigerators and air conditioners, citing growing evidence that the...
View ArticleDid we really save the Ozone Layer?
Another year has passed and that stubborn Ozone Hole over Antarctica refuses to go away...The Ozone Layer is known to block ultraviolet rays, shielding the surface of Earth from high-energy radiation....
View ArticleJohn Kerry on Air Conditioners and ISIS
Air conditioners and refrigerators are as big a threat to life as the threat of terrorism posed by groups like the Islamic State Secretary of State John Kerry recently said that air conditioners and...
View ArticleEPA rule sharply limits HFCs, gases used as refrigerants
WASHINGTON — In what officials call a key step to combat climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency is sharply limiting domestic production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, highly potent...
View ArticleU.S. announces new rule to cut hydrofluorocarbons by 40%
July 12 (UPI) -- The Biden administration has announced plans to continue its reduction of hydrofluorocarbons, releasing a new rule that aims to cut the United States' use of the greenhouse gases by...
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