I’m curious what the actual source is. CFCs are practically obsolete and there is no point in producing them when HCFCs are cheap and hydrocarbon refrigerants are practically free. You’d think China would be using R290 and R600a in any new builds since they’re so cost sensitive. You can even straight swap R290 to replace R22 if they want to use old compressors or something.
I’m wondering if this is a pile of old refrigeration equipment that was dumped and shipped to China, and is now being scrapped in an irresponsible manner or just corroding and leaking. I’m sure there’s loads of R11/12/22 out there, as R12 refrigerators are still regularly dropped off at our local scrap pile here in Canada.
Well the article says it’s mostly caused by an underwater volcano’s emission that happened last year, that’s just reaching now the south pole, and concentrating there atm because of how winds work due to Earth’s rotation.
Everybody is blaming anything they can, and not even bothering reading the news. Pretty on par with the internet.
Thanks for posting the finding links. I hadn’t heard this before and it gives me a good place to start reading. Crazy that we know this is bad for the earth but we keep doing it. I wrote that sentence and mid way through realized how naive it sounds 😖
Lol oh man I remember back in the 90s before everyone gave up when we were trying to actually shrink that thing
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I’m curious what the actual source is. CFCs are practically obsolete and there is no point in producing them when HCFCs are cheap and hydrocarbon refrigerants are practically free. You’d think China would be using R290 and R600a in any new builds since they’re so cost sensitive. You can even straight swap R290 to replace R22 if they want to use old compressors or something.
I’m wondering if this is a pile of old refrigeration equipment that was dumped and shipped to China, and is now being scrapped in an irresponsible manner or just corroding and leaking. I’m sure there’s loads of R11/12/22 out there, as R12 refrigerators are still regularly dropped off at our local scrap pile here in Canada.
Well the article says it’s mostly caused by an underwater volcano’s emission that happened last year, that’s just reaching now the south pole, and concentrating there atm because of how winds work due to Earth’s rotation.
Everybody is blaming anything they can, and not even bothering reading the news. Pretty on par with the internet.
Thanks for posting the finding links. I hadn’t heard this before and it gives me a good place to start reading. Crazy that we know this is bad for the earth but we keep doing it. I wrote that sentence and mid way through realized how naive it sounds 😖
We actually did fix it. The whole world came together and banned those gases. It was a masterpiece of global cooperation.
Unfortunately they’ve started being detected again in growing quantities in recent years.
Last I heard those emissions had starting going back down. Was there anything new on that front since then?
My theory is old vehicles and machinery are gonna release gas