WHY THEY DON'T USE FREON:
Imagine you owned the patent for Freon, and that patent was about to expire.
The product makes BILLIONS of dollars for your company because it is the best coolant ever invented.
So you spend a few million to convince the world that your own product is bad for the 'environment' and then introduce a NEW coolant that (coincidentally) you own the patent for.
Why would you do such a thing? re-read the first sentence- BILLIONS OF DOLLARS~! If others start producing freon after the patent expires your profits would go from billions to a small fraction of that.
The new, but much more corrosive, product keeps you making BILLIONS.
It doesn't matter if it does not work as good. And people actually die using it. Or that places in africa cannot deliver vaccines that need to be cooled, or the space shuttle disintegrates because they use an 'environmentally friendly' product...
Even after the death of those American Astronauts.
Years later, out President and Congress forced brave Americans into space.
Pray for their safe return.
Who owns the patent on Freon? And who owns the patent on the dominant replacement for Freon?
Is the replacement for freon in NASA use the same as in home use? If so that could be Puron... It is frightfully expensive by comparison and home a/c units will have to use it in the next few years.
When we replaced our ac 5 years ago we went to puron. It has been troublesome and very expensive (just because of use of puron) whereas the older unit used for another segment of the house is still freon and has never needed any attention in over 20 years.
Don't fool yourself. The freon problem was real and on solid scientific ground.
Surely you jest.
A moonbat statement is a moonbat statement no matter how many times one reads it.
I never believe assertions or opinions on the web.
Nice try though.