EcoGeek: Carbon Neutral Cooling

The CO2 in your soda is, in fact, stored industrial carbon. So when we hear about refrigerators and air conditioners becoming far more efficient by using CO2 as a coolant, we don’t have to worry about the CO2. All we have to worry about is how to get this new refrigerant adopted as quickly as possible.

I remember the fight against CFCs in the 90s, now against HFCs.  Earth Day was a given… there was no debate about the dangers of global warming until it became a political issue a few years ago.  This is why I think the green movement has caught on so quickly as people of “my age” are just becoming the driving economic force.  We always knew being green was important, we just needed the marketplace in which to exercize our consumer desires.