I think I'm addicted to a/c this time of year

a/c destroying the climate

Wonder if Kerry has shut his down yet?

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Jim

Well every time they blast another ISIS truck it lets out the hydrocarbons....

I'll give up my air conditioning when-oh wait, I don't have AC in the house, or the car. I do need to take a look at my swamp cooler though.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

I'm getting me a new ac next week. I cant wait.

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1984 300SD Orient Red/ Palomino
1989 560SEC
2016 Mazda 6 6 speed manual
1995 Ford F-150 reg cab 4.9 5speed manual

There is an article out there somewhere that talks about how after WWII experts predicted that nuclear energy would change the world. Looking back years later the experts said that it was AC that had the most profound effects.

Water heaters and AC are good reasons for living in this time and place.

I don't even remember what the current residential freon is for new a/c units, but this spring I had to replace my entire central a/c. It is colder and runs less than the prior unit even under service contract.

Then two weeks ago my 16 year old GE refrigerator died. Got a new Whirlpool. Things stay frozen in the freezer, but it takes much longer to freeze than the old GE.

No model of any brand of refrigerator sold in the US has a warranty longer than one year.

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Current:
1985 300D aka Miss Margaret
1991 300SE aka Alarice
1995 SL320 aka Samantha
1997 K1500 Silverado
Past:
1999 E300 ex-wife got it and let her son ruin it
1984 190 2.3 ex-wife got it and let her son destroy a great car
1985 300D (CA version) aka Maybelline lost to deer at high speed.
1981 300D aka Madeline (went to salvage at near 400k) rusty, yet best car I ever drove
Wishlist:
McFarlan TV6 (only a few privately owned)
ReVere with Rochester engine
1917 Premier (only one left)

the new residential units take R410a - it works good till you have a leak (duh), but unlike old R22 - you cannot top up R410a because its a two component refrigerant. - Full evacuation and recharge with fresh R410a is required.

aka - chachinggg $$$$$

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2012 BMW X5 (Beef + Granite suspension model)

1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)

All this A/C hulabaloo makes me wonder abotu something

why doesnt the EPA go after dupont with a fire axe if they knew dupont made a refrigerant that was hurting the environment - that too multiple times.

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2012 BMW X5 (Beef + Granite suspension model)

1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)

EPA is going to place severe restrictions on HCFC's as an end around to making owning anything refrigerated very costly.

I'm going into a new business venture selling ice from the Great Lakes in winter, stored in state of the art insulated buildings and offering horse drawn delivery.

This administration has a backlog of things they want to stick up our backsides that they haven't gotten around to. Obama made mention of it a week or so ago...Like lets get it moving.

hmm - start purchasing tons of sawdust and saltpeter then...

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2012 BMW X5 (Beef + Granite suspension model)

1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)

I'm kinda surprised more houses are not of earth berm design. During these hot days of summer my dogs have dug some really deep holes under wooden porch where if there is any breeze at all it moves through the area.

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Jim

good reason to go geothermal.

How many times do you figure Lake Michigan ( for example) has frozen over in the last 100 years or so?

managing air movement through the house used to be the standard way of cooling down the house (at least where I lived in the past) - super tall ceilings and air moving from the lower to upper, the hot air naturally would exhaust through the upper level windows.

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2012 BMW X5 (Beef + Granite suspension model)

1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)

I'd use Superior, Huron and Erie

And they do not need to totally freeze over.