SHOULD I BUY A CFC-FREE REFRIGERATOR?

[ned.n...@energy.com]

> |> In article <CvtuG...@hawnews.watson.ibm.com>,
> |> Mary McHugh <mch...@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
> |>
> |> >............... there will be a section on it labeled
> REFRIGERANT. If
> |> >the # following is 12, F12, or FR-12, etc. you're getting a
> regular
> |> >Freon refrigerator.
> |>
> |> Anyone out there know what "R-22" refrigerant is? That's what my
> new A/C
> |> uses, and I'm curious.
> |>
> |>
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> R-22 is another type of CFC refrigerant. It is used in larger type
> systems
> and is less harmfull to the ozone layer.
>
> Bill Niedfeldt
> System Engineer
> (too cheap to make a .sig file)

Not quite. R-22 is an HCFC, not CFC. HCFC's have only 1/20 the ozone
depletion potential of CFCs. Nonetheless, they too will be phased out of
production over the next decade, along with CFC's. Most refrigerator and air
conditioner manufacturers are already looking at alternatives.
Ned Nisson

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