CFCs Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:45:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Solar Cooling System Preserves Food Without Electricity https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-cooling-system-preserve-food/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-cooling-system-preserve-food/#respond Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:45:57 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=54060 An eco-friendly and cheap cooling system developed by a Mexican researcher uses solar energy to maintain temperature of food and water at nine degrees Celsius for three months. Refrigerating systems have been under the spot light ever since they were found guilty of polluting the atmosphere with the Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), causing a depletion in the ozone layer. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-cooling-system-preserve-food/feed/ 0 54060 If We Pollute Our Atmosphere, Surely Aliens Have Done the Same to Theirs https://www.greenoptimistic.com/pollute-atmosphere-surely-aliens-done-20140725/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/pollute-atmosphere-surely-aliens-done-20140725/#respond Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:40:41 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=48680 We can find aliens by detecting polluted atmospheres. Or something along these lines is what a team of astrophysicists from Harvard-Smithsonian Center imply in a recently published report. They claim that with new instruments they can find traces of pollution in the atmosphere of other planets, and prove that we are not alone. According to a study published in The […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/pollute-atmosphere-surely-aliens-done-20140725/feed/ 0 48680 EU Ensures Proper Electronic Waste Disposal through Radio-Frequency Tracking https://www.greenoptimistic.com/eu-ensures-proper-electronic-waste-disposal-radio-frequency-tracking-20131108/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/eu-ensures-proper-electronic-waste-disposal-radio-frequency-tracking-20131108/#respond Sat, 09 Nov 2013 02:04:05 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=43352 Less than 40% of the nine million tonnes of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) that Europe produces is treated according to environmental and legal requirements. If this waste is not disposed of safely and responsibly, hazardous substances can be emitted – including ozone depleting substances like chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), greenhouse gases, and oils. The new EU […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/eu-ensures-proper-electronic-waste-disposal-radio-frequency-tracking-20131108/feed/ 0 43352 Southern Africa Experiences Warming Due to Hole in Ozone Layer https://www.greenoptimistic.com/southern-africa-experiences-warming-due-hole-ozone-layer-20131015/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/southern-africa-experiences-warming-due-hole-ozone-layer-20131015/#respond Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:15:05 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=42485 Researchers have found reason to believe the southern tip of Africa is abnormally warm due to the ozone hole over Antarctica. In the journal Nature Geoscience, the research team shows how the ozone hole is causing wind patterns to change and that is causing the abnormal warming of the African continent. Every summer, Africa is […]

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