alt Hacker NewsI heard CO2 is a gas with a powerful green house effect. What happens at the end of life of these units I wonder? What if they leak and it gets into the atmosphere!
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ErroneousBosh • today at 1:48 PM
CO2 has a surprisingly feeble greenhouse effect.
Almost anything else you could use as a refrigerant is worse.
Even water vapour is a worse greenhouse gas.
Edit: wait, have I been whooshed? Apologies if so... ;-)
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So, in the US, for instance, the average person leads to the emission of 16 tonnes of co2 per year. The amount of co2 in your domestic heat pump (which… doesn’t weigh multiple tonnes) is more or less immaterial, even if it does leak.