Originally Posted by
DakotaRog
glumpy- How is propane different from methane?
I don't know. I have only researched and learned about refrigeration not about the composition of the gasses or environmental effects. All I can tell you is what I have read in educating myself on refrigeration and what is stated in places like the Hychill site.
Typically enough, while there is no law here anyways against venting propane and anyne can buy it, even in tins in the supermarket, once you put it in an AC system, it' becomes a
refrigerant and you are supposed to be licenced to handle it and the same fines apply if you vent it or reclaim it without being properly licenced.
YA! Hit me with that one and see how far you get. I wouldn't even bother contacting a lawyer to defend myself against that one. The political embarrasment angle alone of why all car AC units that I would be working on weren't legislated to use it would be enough to make them drop the case.
That's why I'm pretty much anti environmental.
It's a complete load of utter and complete Bullship. Lip service is paid to the principals only where it can make a buck for big Biz or gubbermints. The rest is ignored.
Save energy, recycle, don't fart... Blah , blah blah.
My Brother in law runs a waste transfer facility . What you see there would make you cry. Recently there were several containers full of clothes that were dumped. Why? Because the bar code on the tag was wrong. Forget about re-tagging them or ajusting the computer that reads them, no, We'll just dump them. There was a load of Mobile phones a while back. Dumped because they were superceeded models. Can't sell the old ones when the new one is out! Perish the thought!
How much energy, resources, power and emissions went in to makeing those things that is now all just completely Squandered? They paid EXTRA for the things to be minced up while a bunch of company officials watched. A friend of mine who workes for a major phone company said she went to one where they dug a huge deep pit and poured them in then covered them all up in a dump. Bloody criminal and a complete insult to the whole " Save the planert" BS.
I picked up a load of solar inverters of all things that were dumped. I actually rang the distributor here acting dumb and said what was the difference between the old and the new model. Were they more efficent? Should I chuck my old one and get the new one? No, EXACT same thing only the cover of the new one is more " Stylish". The guts of the thing are exactly the same.
I could go on about machinery and furniture and LED lighting, solar panels and all manner of stuff dumped in the same way.
And after seeing all this first hand, My intelligence is insulted with crap about a bit of gas from my AC escaping or I have to run those stupid CF light globes to save power and I have to pay more for that power for it to be generated from renewable sources. Give me a break!!!
Heres a RADICAL idea..... How about we ban this perfectly good product dumping that had vast amounts of energy and resources ploughed into it thats now going to be ploughed back into landfill? You make it, you sell it all, not dump it.
No unessacary waste allowed for the sake of style, marketing...... Whatever. If the goods aren't dangerously Faulty, you sell them not waste the resources that went into making them.
I Know, something logical, reasonable, obvious and No cost like that will never catch on. It would be too effective and get to the heart of the problem.
Thats why I think the whole green movement is a complete crock.
/Rant.
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