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Are there alternatives to conventional, energy-hogging air conditioners?

By E - The Environmental Magazine

July 21, 2012 1 Comment

The chlorofluorocarbon coolant widely used in air conditioners through the 1980s was phased out because it was damaging the Earth’s protective ozone layer, but the chemicals that replaced it are some 2,100 times stronger as greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide. We may have saved the ozone layer, but -- whoops! -- there goes the climate.

Can anything be done?

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