Articles by Peter Powell

A Website has been set up to allow browsers to report what they consider illegally sold HCFC-22. “If someone offers you an incredible deal on R-22, it likely is too good to be true,” is part of the statement on the home page of www.klexserve.com/catch22 for its Catch-22 Compliance Line.

In a recent Sunday newspaper, the comic strip Zits had the teenager Jeremy intensely studying some advanced calculus, chemistry, and American literature. When he reaches time to study science, the word “chloro-fluro…” appears in one panel only to have Jeremy walk away, bits of knowledge leaking out of his brain.

In my last column, I noted that it was being written before the Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Expo in Orlando so there would not be much to talk about. And there wasn’t. Now that the AHR Expo is over and I had a chance to wander the expo floor for a few days, there is a bit more to discuss.

While much attention is focused on refrigerant reclamation, there is the reality that, for various reasons, not all the refrigerant returned to reclaimers will make it back to the market. The most common problem relates to purity. Such refrigerant then has to be destroyed.

The John C. Stennis Space Center encompasses more than 13,500 acres and is an integral part of the United States space program. Randy Stonebraker is manager of HVAC operations at Stennis, working for Jacobs Technology. Like many, the decision to commit to reclamation meant choosing which reclaimer to deal with.

The long-expected major drop off in the production of virgin HCFC-22 this year - combined with an unexpected year-by-year phase down after that - is putting more attention on the refrigerant reclaim option than ever before. It was the talk of the recent International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition.

So, the EPA has issued is own press release in regards to the Obama Administration’s proposed budget.

The year 2009 was a time of change and adjustments in many aspects. For the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program, it was a year to put in place refinements in the program designed to create better “credit harmonization, credit weighing, regionalization, and updating of standards.”

Well, the number of people who have weighed in on the issue of global warming - make that climate change - has pretty well reached maximum capacity.

I’m really tired of all the space being taken up in print newspapers over the topic of global warming or climate change especially since nothing is ever resolved.