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Cool news: Big fridges to get more efficient under new Obama rules
2013-08-30 00:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: After sitting on two energy-efficiency rules for more than a year and a half, the Obama administration finally released them on Thursday. They won`t be official until early next year, after the public has time to comment and regulators have time to consider those comments, but at least they`re now moving forward. The proposed rules would require commercial refrigeration equipment, like restaurant fridges and deli cases, to use less energy. OK, that might not sound like the sexiest initiative,...
Ghana leaves secondhand fridges out in bid to save energy
2013-01-17 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Behind a once mint-coloured concrete wall now stained by red dust in a hilly suburb of Ghana's capital, Accra, a large machine is making history as it chugs and whirrs away. It is a mobile fridge degassing unit the first of its kind on the entire African continent, its owners say and it is sucking poisonous gases out of hundreds of Ghana's discarded secondhand fridges. The machine was imported from Germany by City Waste Management, a company specialising in the safe disposal of electronic...