Professor Kohler from our technical University in Brunswick was, together with others, just awarded with 500 000 euro, the highest endowed award of its kind in Europe for environmental achievements (german).
Together with his team he found a possibility to use carbon dioxide as a cooling for air-con in cars. The one that is used now (R134a) doesn´t destroy the ozone layer, but it is a strong greenhouse gas - 1400 times stronger than carbon dioxide.
He says he is happy that the german car industry wants to exchange the old cooling to this new one from 2011 on.
(Do you really need four years to get ready for serial use? What political influences are working against this?)
You can read the full story here (german).
1 comment:
Wow! Well, four years is a long time, but if it works, it'll be worth the wait! (if the world is still here then!)
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