Why Refrigeration is the #1 Ranked Solution To Climate Change? | Ranked by Project Drawdown

[@OurEden]

We hope that you enjoyed this video! The full video transcript can be found on our Patreon, which we have recently made in the hope of producing even better and more regular content, please consider supporting us: www.patreon.com/OurEden 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)” 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” kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHa8q4B4jsyXgpY and IPCC, Anthropogenic and Natural Radiative Forcing, www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploa... [5] - OurEden - "PFAS - The Science Of Dark Waters" kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3jEXoCNiNqJms0 [6] - United Nations Industrial Development Programme - “The Montreal Protocol evolves to fight climate change” www.unido.org/our-focus-safeg... [7] - University Of Birmingham, Clean Cold and the Global Goals, 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 www.drawdown.org/solutions/re... [10] - Project Drawdown, Alternative Refrigerants, www.drawdown.org/solutions/al... [11] - Project Drawdown, Offshore Wind Turbines, www.drawdown.org/solutions/of... [12] - Project Drawdown, Electric Cars, 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, www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse... [20] - gov.uk, Recovering, reclaiming and recycling F gas, 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, www.green-cooling-initiative....

[@TCRgalaxy]

The Climate crisis is a Symptom of human population Overshoot, gotta get to the root of the problem…addressing symptoms will only allow for further growth and overshoot and overconsumption…

[@gabisblog1219]

As always great video, with great research!

[@OurEden]

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@Lone-Lee]

Nice video as always with even better memes. Btw, that thumbnail doesn't look that attractive.

[@OurEden]

Thank you, very useful comment too, we will work on making this more attractive and change it this evening. Thanks!

[@Lone-Lee]

@@OurEden, oh thanks 😊. One more thing to ask. I've heard and read that nuclear energy is far more efficient and much less poluting than any other renewable energy source but, I don't see it on this list at 5:04. It should be placed much above windmills, right?

[@Lone-Lee]

This is a tedx talk on that matter: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hF7ccn-GetWJatk

[@OurEden]

@@Lone-Lee Interesting point, but this is the list of the sources that Project Drawdown listed as the best solutions. You're totally right with nuclear, the main issue is that building plants is extremely expensive, so it hard to build that level of infrastructure in the short time we have to make meaningful changes, otherwise it would be higher up the list. You can checkout the drawdown summary here: drawdown.org/solutions/nuclear-power

[@shaunaburton7136]

Interesting ideas