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Originally Posted by jeff5may
I believe the near-future improvements in residential HVAC will come in the form of variable-capacity inverter compressors...
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As long as we're dwelling on future HVAC improvements, another issue to consider is that there seems to be a move toward considering the merits of organic refrigerants.
I have seen quite a few papers written fairly recently on the environmental advantages of organic refrigerants, and in some cases, the efficiency advantages. I have seen these papers from Europe, China, Turkey and Australia.
I think that the real reason that synthetic refrigerants are predominate is that organic refrigerants are not patentable, so less money is to be made from their manufacture.
-AC