Why can't the French dump fuel?

James Robinson wrote:

Certain types of Freon are. Those types are no longer used in new air
conditioning or refrigeration systems. Older systems will still have them,
but you can't replace lost fluid if you have a leak.

Not with the older type of fluid, but you can replace it with the newer types.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

"James Robinson" wrote

Certain types of Freon are. Those types are no longer used in new air
conditioning or refrigeration systems. Older systems will still have
them,
but you can't replace lost fluid if you have a leak.

I think you are wrong about that. Sure, they are nasty things, in how they
combine in the upper atmosphere to eat ozone, but VOC's are things that
burn, and were not burned before they were released, right?

It all just has to do with classifications, and I believe Freon is in a
different classification.
--
Jim in NC

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"James Robinson" wrote

Certain types of Freon are. Those types are no longer used in new air
conditioning or refrigeration systems. Older systems will still have
them,
but you can't replace lost fluid if you have a leak.

Where did you hear that? That must have been nonexistium that the AC
technician put in my AC at home this spring. G

The old stuff is still available, but it costs more than the new stuff, and
must be used by licensed tecs, and must be pumped out and recovered when
conditions demand that it be removed from the system. I think I heard that
the old stuff is not being manufactured anymore, but that the existing
stockpiles will last for a few more years, but I'm not at all sure about
that.
--
Jim in NC

As such, there have been a number of proposals to ban things that
contain such chemicals outright. In fact, commercial production of
chemicals like carbon tetrachloride, trichlorethane, and certain types
of Freon have ceased by international agreement.

Hey -- we used to clean our HO train set railroad tracks with carbon
tetrachloride, when I was a kid.

Sure made the tracks shiny!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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