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Re:Hacking Portable Air Conditioners by userbinator on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:05PM (#24025713)
You can already buy some refrigerants legally without any license, and somewhat amusingly (or sadly), even contribute to global warming by releasing as much of it into the atmosphere as you want! It's not marketed as a refrigerant, because that would make the EPA regulate it, but of course the chemical itself doesn't care about such trivialities and will cool the same when it evaporates. If you want to go down a rabbithole, search for "duster spray AC recharge".
Re:Hacking Portable Air Conditioners by bserge on Sunday August 02, 2020 @07:57AM (#24028095)
R290 is just propane, and it has a low Global Warming Potential. I see a lot of the new portable A/Cs use it. Apparently it's also more energy efficient. Obvious downside is that it's flammable.