[Milsurplus] Re: Frying pan to fire.. was Hot meters

[Patrick Jankowiak]

The great anti-air conditioning conspiracy

The idea below, where the less efficient refrigerating gasses are 
now forced to be used, is a plot by the Europeans and other Kyoto 
signing partners to eventually demonize, quota-ize, and diminish 
air conditioning use globally, by making it as costly to the 
environment as possible. Expect even worse refrigerants in the 
future, until the situation is so bad that consumer-application 
mechanical refrigeration is less efficient than thermoelectric. 
Then we'll migrate to that technology.

Already the European company I work for circulates memos to the 
USA offices for distribution to all employees suggesting that we 
all suffer ill effects due to 'unhealthy' home thermostat 
settings below 78 degrees in the summer. Of course in the winter 
they exhort us to set it at 66.. Already in the office, the 
summertime  air conditioning has been cut back. My work surfaces 
are at 76 degrees! I use a fan to stay cool. The foreign worker 
across the aisle complained about the noise of the fan. I told 
him that either Facilities could set the temperature to 74 or 
lower, or we could go to HR and discuss it, or he could ignore 
the fan. So far, the fan's been ingored.

Just wait, the U.N. 'comfort police' will be showing up someday, 
because your all-electronic-internet-enabled house of the future 
narcs on you for running the air conditioning at 72 during an 
August night.

"Sir, you are under arrest for heat avoidance"



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Gordon White wrote:


 >>  Incidentally, have you seen that the HCH's that replaced 
Freon are now an
 >> environmental no-no? Worse than Freon.


I've been told that the Freon replacements have a lower 
thermodynamic efficiency
than R-12 or  R-22, and, as a result, require more power to 
produce the same
number of BTU/Hr. This means more greenhouse gasses from the 
power plants (non
nukes). Progress ??  I wonder.

-John