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Cold Thoughts
by Neil Everitt The editor of ACR News posts his own cold thoughts about the ACR industry and anything else he cares to air. |
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Fresh Talk
by Steve Gill Steve Gill has worked in the ACR industry for over 30 years as a contractor and consultant. He is a Director of ACRIB and serves on several Institute of Refrigeration committees. He is the winner of the 2011 ACR News Consultant of the Year Award. |
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Fox's Tales
by Graeme Fox Graeme Fox is an RAC contractor based in Dundee. He is a director at AREA (Air Conditioning & Refrigeration European Contractors' Association) and a member of the Institute of Refrigeration. |
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Gosling takes a gander
by Trevor Gosling A pioneer of air conditioning in the UK, Trevor Gosling is an ASHRAE life member, who in 1962 founded DES the distributor bought by Carrier in 1983. He has trained more than 1500 mature students. He designed the Rollason Air Handling Units and was chairman of the Liebert & Stulz distributors. |
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A View from the Gas Tank
by Barry Lyons Barry Lyons is business development manager for BOC. He is a refrigeration engineer with over four decades’ experience, a fellow of the Institute of Refrigeration, chairman of the ACRIB Technical Committee and a Board member of the BRA. |
The latest entries
Cooling shapes the future
I am always reminded at this time of year just how significant the ACR industry is to our everyday lives. It is often said that as an industry our contribution to modern society is taken for granted.
Is our knowledge valued?
There is a saying that knowledge is power. We are often described as having specialist knowledge which we apply to the benefit of mankind. If we do have power, we do not gain from in financially to the extent of some other professions. When it comes to the ACR industry it sometimes, perhaps always, seems as though we constantly have to justify the price that we put to our knowledge.
Authorities must act over methyl chloride
SOME of our older engineers will remember it but very few have worked with it. Those that have will have been glad to see the back of it. Now methyl chloride is creeping back into refrigeration systems via criminal refrigerant suppliers keen to make a fast buck. What's worse three people have died in recent incidents where methyl chloride has appeared in bogus blends posing as R134a in reefer systems.
Climategate 2 - the saga continues........
Hilarious reading this week on the web and in our papers about the fiasco of the redrawn map of Greenland. The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World has been updated and in the brain-washing, never mind the facts here's the b***ocks style to which we've all become so accustomed in recent years on the subject of climate change, they decided to draw Greenland with much of the permanent ice sheet missing and claiming that this has now disappeared because of man made global warming. The publicity at the launch suggested that 15% of the Greenland ice sheet had become "green and ice free".
Should we be taking more control of temperature?
AIR conditioning continues to come in for criticism from some quarters. Much of this criticism comes from "green" groups and is not helped by the fact that many offices and retail establishments are, admittedly, decidedly over-cooled. Is it any wonder, then, that the focus often falls on the cost of running air conditioning (the same accusations can be levelled at heating in the winter but for some reason this never receives the same amount of attention).
