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May 01, 2009
They Are Coming After Your Refrigerator
The Obama Administration has a brilliant new idea. Ban HFCs. UNITED NATIONS -- The Obama administration, in a major environmental policy shift, is leaning toward asking 195 nations that ratified the U.N. ozone treaty to enact mandatory reductions in hydrofluorocarbons, according to U.S. officials and documents obtained by The Associated Press.How nice. Can he get Congress to ratify the treaty? We shall see. So what are HFCs used for? HFCs are used in air conditioning and refrigeration systems throughout the world. HFC systems conserve energy, and therefore reduce global warming gas emissions at electric power facilities. This is more significant when they replace older, less-energy-efficient systems.And guess what else HFCs are good for? HFCs offer solutions to global-warming...I guess they haven't got the word. The HFCs are no longer in favor. And who had a prominent role in getting CFCs (the predecessors of HFCs) banned? DuPont, the world's dominant CFC producer, played a key role in the development of the Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depleting Substances.Well of course. Its patents on CFCs were running out and CFCs were cheaper to make than HFCs. They were also somewhat more efficient as refrigerants. So my question is: are the patents on HFCs running out? Has DuPont invented a replacement? Are they behind this new move? Is this another example of the $Green Economy? I'd bet on it. Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 05.01.09 at 06:55 AM |
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There will be a trend to stretch treaties to justify anything the President wants.
Here we have a treaty intended to regulate CFCs and it will be used to regulate HFCs.
Next it will be used to regulate whatever molecule bothers the PC next. And then another, and another.
After all, it can be argued that any molecule produced by human activity changes the world. And using treaties avoids the nasty process of trying to pass a law.
The beauty of treaties is in letting an international court decide what they mean.
And with several of our SC judges talking about how wonderful foreign law is we can be sure of the outcome.