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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 is a independent UK-based air-conditioning and refrigeration consultant. He is also a director of ACRIB and the Institute of Refrigeration's membership committee chairman. Here he gives his perspective on the industry. |
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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. |
The latest entries
A question of double standards?
Many will be aware of the struggle going on between environmental groups and the fluorocarbon industry to win the "hearts and minds" of the car makers over the imminent need to replace R134a in car air conditioning systems.
Big business of green lobbying
We’re now half way through the Copenhagen summit and sadly we’ve neither seen nor heard anything new.
Climategate
The global warming debate has changed course somewhat this past week. Hats off again to the Daily Mail for exposing the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University for their internal email exchanges which uncovered the tampering of data to suit their political ends.
Does more sun shine on the righteous?
IN THE editorial in the September issue of ACR News, I commented upon how those who feel they have a righteous cause can sometimes pursue that cause so zealously that their actions can become morally skewed.
Energy efficiency truths can be hard to swallow
I recently received a summary of the Climate conference held in Poznan, Poland in September. The clear message sent from the many participants is that the debate over alternative refrigerants (or "natural refrigerants" as some like to term them) is far from clear-cut or over.
