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- From: jbm@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Jeffrey Mulligan)
- Subject: Re: Charging A/C with Freon
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.001743.25184@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: NASA Ames Research Center
- References: <22445@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Jul20.153331.24083@bnr.ca> <1992Jul25.142149.25223@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 00:17:43 GMT
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- ghg@en.ecn.purdue.edu (George Goble) writes:
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- >The largest single source of leaking CFCs are automobile A/C units.
- >The world's 225 million A/C cars each leak around 1/2 lb of CFC-12
- >each year on the average. The industrial solvent and foam blowing
- >sectors have pretty much cleaned up their act by now.
- >--ghg
-
- What about large air-conditioned buildings?
- Are service personnel now required to recover all freon when servicing
- these large units as they are with auto units?
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