[lit-ideas] Re: "Much brains", "many brains"

  • From: Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:37:40 -0400

Mike is writing from Home Depot.  He lives there now.



Erin
Toronto


Quoting Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Freon is an eponymous term.  Refrigerant is the gas used to cool.
> Refrigerants don't have names, just numbers.  There used to be only 4
> common
> refrigerants R-12 (for refrigerators and car AC's),  R-22 (for air
> conditioners), R-502 (for freezers), and R-11 (for large centrifugal
> chillers).  They were the bad old CFC's that eat up ozone in the upper
> atmosphere.  There are currently about 40 different refrigerant
> replacements
> and they're 10 times more expensive and the whole industry is in turmoil
> because techs can't tell which refrigerant is in a system.  Etc. etc. etc.
> 
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 11:16 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: "Much brains", "many brains"
> 
> 
> > Apparently it's not the obvious and ubiquitous freon.
> >
> > Julie Krueger
> > god I learn so much from this list
> >
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