Re:“My chest fridge consumes about 0.1 kWh a day.”
by ErikCorry on Friday November 04, 2022 @07:18AM
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Yes this is what I meant.
10 years ago I bought an expensive tumble drier with a heap pump in order to be nice to the environment. After a few years there was an issue with it and I called a repairman. He vented the refrigerant and refilled it as part of his repair.
My calculation said it was an equivalent emission of about 1300kg CO2. Environmental impact immediately went negative.
This will be an issue when everyone is heating their house with heat pumps. They are amazing, but you have to follow the rules when repairing and scrapping them.
Re:“My chest fridge consumes about 0.1 kWh a day.”
by Vendan on Friday November 04, 2022 @01:15PM
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I'd honestly be shocked if "vented and refilled refrigerant" was legal, that sounds like something a shady repairman would do...
Re:“My chest fridge consumes about 0.1 kWh a day.”
by ErikCorry on Friday November 04, 2022 @01:51PM
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I looked it up, it wasn't (in Denmark). He said he always does it that way. I printed out and gave him a copy of the relevant regulation. I'm sure it made all the difference...
Re:“My chest fridge consumes about 0.1 kWh a day.”
by Kirby64 on Friday November 04, 2022 @03:12PM
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Unless you're in a region where AC is not needed, you already need refrigerant in the AC system. It does add some refrigerant overall (since there's places that do not require AC, but may require heat pumps), but it's not that big a difference.
For example, the refrigerant R-410A does about 2000 more greenhouse warming over a 100 year period. So a leak of 1 kg of R-410A is equivalent to about 2 metric tons of CO2 emissions.