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While laid up with postherpetic neuralgia, I solved the mystery of global warming.
I was reading in Charlie Brown's Fifth Super Book of Questions and Answers about how air conditioning and refrigeration works. I learned that neither air conditioners nor refrigerators cool things by adding coolness to the air; they cool things by removing heat (thanks to the chemical properties of freon). Interesting!
Of course, the heat that gets removed has to go somewhere. In the case of refrigerators, it is dumped into the kitchen. In the case of air conditioners, it is dumped outside.
So, when we're hot we heat the air to get cool, and when we're cold we heat the air to get warm. Billions of people have air conditioners and/or refrigerators. This is what is causing global warming.
As the global population increases (predicted to be 9 billion by 2050) the number of air conditioning units, refrigerators, and heaters will also increase. The problem will only get worse!
Now, give me my Nobel Prize!
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My dedicated 19 year-old French maid Veronique thinks we should release trillions of soap suds into the atmosphere. The wind would carry the soap suds everywhere and counter the effects of pollution.
Peyote can certainly fuel the imagination...
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quote:Originally posted by Mr. Lava: While laid up with postherpetic neuralgia, I solved the mystery of global warming.
I was reading in Charlie Brown's Fifth Super Book of Questions and Answers about how air conditioning and refrigeration works. I learned that neither air conditioners nor refrigerators cool things by adding coolness to the air; they cool things by removing heat (thanks to the chemical properties of freon). Interesting!
Of course, the heat that gets removed has to go somewhere. In the case of refrigerators, it is dumped into the kitchen. In the case of air conditioners, it is dumped outside.
So, when we're hot we heat the air to get cool, and when we're cold we heat the air to get warm. Billions of people have air conditioners and/or refrigerators. This is what is causing global warming.
As the global population increases (predicted to be 9 billion by 2050) the number of air conditioning units, refrigerators, and heaters will also increase. The problem will only get worse!
Now, give me my Nobel Prize!
Sorry, no nominations for the Nobel to one that has proved that they don't understand things they are attempting to make others understand.
It isn't the chemical properties of freon that causes the heat cycle and permits its use to heat or cool things, but the physical properties. Moreover, it doesn't require freon or anything close to freon to accomplish the cooling ot heating. Many units use amonia and others use water and there are many others in common use. Anything that can remain chemically stable (so that its boiling points and condensation points don't change)in the pressures necessary to cause it to change from a liquid state to a gaseous state and back can be used as a refrigerant.
Their proper name is "heat pump" whether or not they are used to heat or cool.
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some refrigerants are more efficient than others... since energy is always used to operate the mecahnical pumps that recompress the refrigerants back to liquid? there's always heat generated ....
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I told my wife your theory and said we should turn off the AC.
She threw a pillow at me!... Some people! hmmph.
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Yep, compress a gas and ya get heat, allow it to expand and it uses heat. Once-upon-a-time I even remembered which of the great wizzards first discovered that.
Recently, I was reading an article on replacing R22 with butane and was surpried how much more efficient it is to do the same amount of cooling.
While we set leaking freon and other various refrigerants that are destroying the ozone layer, the restof the world has decided to go to the use of petroleum fefrigerants like butane, which have no ozone depleting habit.
By the way, that was a research report out of Austrailia I was reading. Most informative and extremely well done. I wish I had to link to put it here.
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The last report I read from Australia was about some whore getting married to some country pop star.
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True, Glass, but they don't have a near infinite half life in the athmosphere like 134a and CO2.
Well, Lava, it was a good lookin one.......congrats to the singer! Wonder if the broad is a good cook?
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