My April 6 column on why it doesn’t matter whom to believe in the climate change debate touched off a bit of e-mail dialogue between several writers and myself. In that column, I cited some research from the 1970s predicting global cooling, then noted that the focus shifted more to global warming in the 1980s.
I’ve been in this industry longer than most. How long? I started reading The NEWS in 1970 when I joined Rheem in Chicago as the sales promotion manager for the Air Conditioning Division. I left for a couple of stretches to see if the grass was greener, but somehow I always came back. Why? A lot had to do with the people.
Some of us have come to the conclusion that the tax credits provided for in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) are very confusing. Unless you are promoting geothermal or other renewable energy products, you may be having a hard time finding tidy little system matches for your customers.
If you read this column frequently, you know that I seem to attract bad service. I’ve written several times about some of the terrible service, which seems to permeate our society today. Well, I am happy to be able to write today about two instances of excellent service I recently received.
I recently learned that our most-recognized superheroes - Batman, Superman, Wonderwoman - were created near the end of the Great Depression. Today’s heroes could be slightly different. Instead of a Captain America, how about a Captain Economy, or Greenman? Greenman could be green in many ways, saving energy and saving people from the poorhouse.
Reclaimers
do not see large amounts of refrigerant coming to them. They admit the return process
is a work in progress and, like with anything new, it has both cost and
learning curve issues. But it is just those cost and learning curve issues that are causing
contractors not to put their refrigerant into the reclaim pipeline to any great
extent.
Have you ever wondered about all the facts and figures that are tossed around like bits of lettuce floating through the air? Can all the numbers be right? In the current world of green initiatives, tax credits, and stimulus packages, playing fast and loose with energy savings claims does seem to be more of an art and less of a science.
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