freon

At one point, freon was a component in the external fuel tank insulation.

It was a pre-freon, compression based system powered by natural gas.

In comparison, the Freon ban to protect the ozone took little more than ten years (in fairness the Montreal Protocol is the most successful treaty the UN has produced).

Robot freon compressors replacing ice delivery men.

In the 80s we acted faster on freon/CFCs than we have on climate change in the ensuing 30 years, with less danger to human life and less evidence.

The Shuttle used a combination of heat pipes and circulating freon (and dumped the waste heat during ascent into the cargo bay, poor cargo!), but also did not have a nuclear reactor on board.

Maybe hacking up the fridge to have the Freon running right over top of the CPU, but I'd rather take my chances tearing apart a Chromebook than tearing apart a fridge.

Having read the comment threads, I just wanted to respond to a couple of statements about Thomas Midgley, Jr., the chemist who had much to do with developing tetraethyl lead as a gasoline additive and later Freon as a refrigerant.

[BrC2O4F3] Very few of us will have the need to name it, though - you make that one by condensing trifluoroacetic anhydride onto the bromyl fluoride at -196C, then warming and recrystallizing the solid from liquified freon to give yellow crystals.

I don't know if you remember 1986 (I know I don't), but from what I understand from the history books, computers communicated at around 300 baud and even if you exclude the mandatory freon compressor, the amount of energy required to run a computer with processor power equivalent to the phone in your pocket would still have been measured in tons of coal per fortnight.

The stuff my dad used for cleaning down beryllium copper sheets that then had silicon, gold, and nichrome deposited onto them to make tiny medical pressure sensors was generally various stages of xylene, amyl acetate, freon, and - on one notable occasion when a shipment of the sheet stock came heavily contaminated with tractor oil - plain ordinary petrol.

I was trying to follow a piece of older equipment's cleaning procedures to the letter, but once I hit "flush with freon" I decided to go off-book.

Third party sale sites should be allowed to participate, especially as innovation like fobo wouldn't come freon a big company, but the transfer of "title" really needs to be solved by phone manufacturers and/or carriers.

But I also know that for "garnered international collaboration", a much better explanation is follow the money to flow to the chemical industry for outlawing cheap, commodity Freon, ruining a lot of refrigeration capex, and selling new refrigeration working fluid, at high prices, and capex.

In their system, the ground loop is water with antifreeze, not Freon, so there's an additional heat exchanger.

At that time, refrigerators often used Freon, a gas that destroys the earth's ozone layer.

Freon was invented as a safe replacement for ammonia, and Thomas Midgely was hailed for saving thousands of lives as a result.