Insights from the Field

If you’ve talked to me about refrigerants in the last four years—so basically if you’ve met me professionally or bumped into me at the grocery store—I have happily yapped your ear off about refrigerant leak detection. This is my proselytizing post.

I’m replacing a 23-year-old A/C unit that technically still works. Not because I want to, but because I was forced to. On principle, we did not want to pay to replace something that works. And that resistance got me thinking about grocery stores running 25-year-old refrigeration systems on 1–2% margins—and why “average lifespan” is just a suggestion. Cooling infrastructure doesn’t get retired because it’s old. It gets retired when the economics force it. That’s the real cl

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