Project Drawdown is a collection of scientists who aim to rank all possible solutions to climate change by CO2e sequestered/not emitted by 2050. in their book 'The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming', refrigeration is the number one way we can reduce carbon emissions, in this video, we will discuss why, and how we can make it a reality.

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00:00 - Introduction
00:32 - What are refrigerants?
02:02 - The Ozone layer and the abolishment of CFCs
03:54 - HFCs were not the solution
05:01 - How big a problem is refrigeration?
06:08 - What do we replace HFCs with?
07:48 - What can you do about it?
09:02 - Check out our Patreon here!

References
[1] - Midgley Jr, Thomas, and Albert L. Henne. "Organic Fluorides as Refrigerants1." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry 22, no. 5 (1930): 542-545.
[2] - Molina, M.J. and Rowland, F.S., 1974. Stratospheric sink for chlorofluoromethanes: chlorine atom-catalysed destruction of ozone. Nature, 249(5460), pp.810-812.
[3] - Climate & Clean Air Coalition. “Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)” https://www.ccacoalition.org/en/slcps... (Accessed 01/03/2021)
[4] - Just Have a Think - “Cooling our future - How Global Cooling is heating up the planet”    • Keeping cool in a warming world.   and IPCC, Anthropogenic and Natural Radiative Forcing, https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploa...
[5] - OurEden - "PFAS - The Science Of Dark Waters"    • PFAS: The Science of Dark Waters  
[6] - United Nations Industrial Development Programme - “The Montreal Protocol evolves to fight climate change” https://www.unido.org/our-focus-safeg...
[7] - University Of Birmingham, Clean Cold and the Global Goals, https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Document...
[8] - Hawken, P. ed., 2017. Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Penguin.
[9] - Project Drawdown, Refrigerant Managment https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/re...
[10] - Project Drawdown, Alternative Refrigerants, https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/al...
[11] - Project Drawdown, Offshore Wind Turbines, https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/of...
[12] - Project Drawdown, Electric Cars, https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/el...
[13] - Pearson, A., 2008. Refrigeration with ammonia. International journal of refrigeration, 31(4), pp.545-551.
[14] - Liu, X., Elgowainy, A. and Wang, M., 2020. Life cycle energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of ammonia production from renewable resources and industrial by-products. Green Chemistry, 22(17), pp.5751-5761.
[15] - Qyyum, M.A. and Lee, M., 2018. Hydrofluoroolefin-based novel mixed refrigerant for energy efficient and ecological LNG production. Energy, 157, pp.483-492.
[16] - McLinden, M.O., Brown, J.S., Brignoli, R., Kazakov, A.F. and Domanski, P.A., 2017. Limited options for low-global-warming-potential refrigerants. Nature Communications, 8(1), pp.1-9.
[17] - Cynthia B. Rivela; Carmen M. Tovar; Mariano A. Teruel; Ian Barnes; Peter Wiesen; María B. Blanco (2019). "CFCs replacements: Reactivity and atmospheric lifetimes of a series of Hydrofluoroolefins towards OH radicals and Cl atoms". Chemical Physics Letters. doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2018.10.078.
[18] - Not really a reference, but a back of envelope calc: 0.15 kg (mass of HFC in fridge) * 4000 (times more potent than CO2) = 600 kg CO2e
[19] - EPA, Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator, https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse...
[20] - gov.uk, Recovering, reclaiming and recycling F gas, https://www.gov.uk/guidance/recoverin...
[21] - green-cooling-initiative, How to know what ref­ri­ge­rant is in your fri­dge? – Gre­na­da’s new la­bel ma­kes green coo­ling ea­sy to spot, https://www.green-cooling-initiative....

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