• evranch@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.