Oh man, don’t get me started on this.
What a mess for the past few decades.
When one of their coolant patents is about to expire it is the duty of the US feral government to find that it destroys the ozone layer so it can be outlawed and DuPont's next patented coolant rolled into place.
From the article:
Daimler issued a statement saying that the research was "too restrictive". The carmaker said that its preferred option is to develop air-conditioning systems that use carbon dioxide as a refrigerant. Development of such a system, however, could take years.
I suppose that using carbon dioxide as a refrigerant would have the same impact as CO2.
Is this behind the coat-on-fire panic about new ozone damaging chemicals?
The Commission, the EU executive, has launched legal proceedings against Germany over Daimler’s refusal to stop using an old-style coolant that has global warming potential more than 1,000 times greater than that of carbon dioxide.Oh yeah? And how much of that is used during the lifetime of a car? How many degrees is the planet expected to be cooled if they used a different substance instead? Normally, you’d assume that it was the journalists’ job to ask those questions, but…hey, it’s Reuters, after all.
R12 demise was just a hoax and at the time simply a vehicle to raise taxes. I worked in the industry at the time.