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 ----- > From: <JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > -- Erin ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html