New vending machines stay cool without warming the planet
Coke, Pepsi, Ben & Jerry's and GE are phasing out the use of ozone-depleting refrigerants, turning instead to carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons.
Photo: Coca-Cola Co. Comments
Thats definately a great development. I was recently in a new Wellnesshotel in Bavaria where they had implemented these kind of machines. Looks very impressive to me and it is good for our nature
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just to make things clearer. HFC do not harm the ozone layer as could be thought after reading the part on Greenpeace. HCFC harm the ozone layer and you do not find them in vending machines.
I think this is a step in the right direction. I takes the efforts of a major corperation to sway refrigeration polution. If you think coke is bad all of us have a fridge in our house to cool our foods calculate that out and tell me how bad coke is. But However it's these major company investments that will sway refrisgeration industry to change their technologies. I hope it's what you call green washing and everyone competes with them. Someone may come out with a better technology.
A nice gesture but a skewed article. These systems seem like a way to ride the green wave and sell more disposable, fossil-fueled, corn-syrup filled, local water draining/polluting, unhealthy diabetes promoting crap to make more money for mega-corporations. I say, 2 thumbs down. Are we really expected to think coke and pepsi care about the state of the planet because they have efficient vending machines?
Well, even if they aren't as perfect and pure hearted as you'd like them to be, these companies have just made some big strides in advancing refrigeration technology. I'm thrilled to know that vending machines are using refrigerants with less than one thousandth of the global warming potential of the refrigerant in my home refrigerator. This is a much-needed technology shift. Kudos to anyone who brings it further along.
...how about just not making the high fructose crap in the first place?
