Posted on 05/02/2024 4:37:07 PM PDT by lowbridge
And generous applications of asbestos might have saved the World Trade Center.
Strangely this was all codified by the Congress and the EPA in the 1990’s
See. 40CFR-82 and it’s sub parts.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-40/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-82
See Also: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2016-09/documents/snap_status_change_rule_2_2060_as80.pdf
There are alternative substitutes
The EPA and all the states climate czars need to quit making up rules about eliminating anything that is currently the most economically reasonable product to use, and all them need to switch to legislation seeking to assist in the development of alternatives and when the alternatives meet the engineering and economic tests for being reasoably equal to the current products THEN they can seek for those new products to be used.
Hochul is sooo dumb she doesn’t know her policies are crushing NY as thousands leave the state
Eliminating beer and carbonated soft drinks would have a greater carbon reduction.
Beer and Coke are CO2 emitters
or sulfur dioxide - 1920/30s tech...
What economy? There’s nothing left in NYS to “cool” except for government which is growing like crazy.
The newer “more environmentally friendly” ™ refrigerants are highly compressed unlike R22 which causes many more leaks and the latest stuff is highly flammable. Talk about reinventing the wheel and creating problems where there were none.
I wonder how much refrigerants lost to leaks in the system, either from newer ones running at much higher pressure, or just other issues compared to tweakers stealing copper from the systems.
My friend did mostly small commercial work, like restaurants, however, his company also did places like supermarkets. They had one call assisted where Tweaker stole copper and dump like 700+ pounds of refrigerant to atmosphere.
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