The projects destroy powerful greenhouse gases such as hydrofluorocarbon-23 (HFC-23) and nitrous oxide (N2O), in a trade in carbon offsets under the U.N.-led Kyoto Protocol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reuters: Top News] Reference

"Some sizable projects have postponed their requests for issuance," Fages said, referring to large, lucrative industrial gas projects that inexpensively destroy potent greenhouse gases such as hydrofluorocarbon-23 (HFC) and nitrous oxide (N2O).    From Wordnik.com.  [Reuters: Top News] Reference

It turns out, though, that these materials contain a particular type of hydrofluorocarbon that happens to be 1,430 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Home's Hidden Environmental Horrors] Reference

The fiendish chemical used in air blasters is tetrafluoroethane, a hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) developed to avoid the ozone-depleting effects of chlorofluorocarbons, the more traditional referigerant and propellant chemical compounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Schwartz: His Keyboard Versus the Climate] Reference

The main replacement for R-22 in residential cooling is a hydrofluorocarbon called HFC-410A.    From Wordnik.com.  [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference

HFC, or hydrofluorocarbon, is a refrigerant that's believed to contribute to global warming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philadelphia Business News - Local Philadelphia News | The Philadelphia Business Journal] Reference

Coca-Cola recently committed to eliminate the use of hydrofluorocarbon gases in all its new vending machines and coolers by 2015.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbes.com: News] Reference

The majority of CDM investments support greenhouse gas-reduction projects in China, such as this hydrofluorocarbon deconstruction plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [OneWorld.net (U.S.) - beyond your own borders] Reference

The Atlanta-based beverage giant said Thursday all of its new vending machines and coolers will be hydrofluorocarbon-free (HFC-free) by 2015.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston Business News - Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal] Reference

Most conventional air conditioners and refrigerators achieve cooling through a mechanical vapor compression cycle (VCC) and hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business Wire Travel News] Reference

This month, Coca-Cola and its bottling partners announced that 100% of their new vending machines and coolers will be hydrofluorocarbon-free (HFC-free) by 2015.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com] Reference

It is equivalent to the production of five billion plastic carrier bags, with the global warming impact of hydrofluorocarbon gases (HFCs) being 3,800 times that of carbon dioxide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories] Reference

A United Nations investigation into alleged improper claims for hydrofluorocarbon-pollution credits threatens to choke off investment in projects to curb emissions, according to Bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Alex calls out extruded polystyrene (XPS) such as Dow Styrofoam of Owens Corning Foamular, and standard closed-cell spray polyurethane foam (SPF) in particular, for using hydrofluorocarbon.    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference

Greenpeace identifies hydrofluorocarbon (HFCs), an industrial gas and very potent "super greenhouse gas," and forest preservation projects as potentially huge sources of offsets for U.S. and global markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Getting Hot In Here] Reference

The technology is similar to a steam engine, with steam or hot water vaporizes a hydrofluorocarbon refrigerant that drives the turbine (it has been compared to a "refrigerator compressor running backwards").    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] Reference

Examples include releases of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) from electrical equipment, hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) releases during the use of refrigeration and air conditioning equipment, process equipment leaks, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Chronicle] Reference

When the ship returns to the fleet later this year, its 10 air conditioning plants and five refrigeration plants will use hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants, known as HFCs, which are friendlier to the atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Navy Times - News] Reference

Targets for reducing global emissions from the international aviation and maritime transport sectors, an international arrangement to address emissions of hydrofluorocarbon gases (HFCs) and a work programme for the agriculture sector.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"The paper projects that HFC (hydrofluorocarbon) emissions will rise rapidly in coming years and decades, threatening to effectively cancel out some of the hard fought greenhouse gas reductions made through energy efficiency and clean energy deployment," said Greenpeace.    From Wordnik.com.  [AmericanDaily] Reference

ATLANTA - (Business Wire) Days before the United Nations summit on climate change begins in Copenhagen, The Coca-Cola Company and its bottling partners today announced that 100 percent of their new vending machines and coolers will be hydrofluorocarbon-free (HFC-free) by 2015.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

ATLANTA -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Days before the United Nations summit on climate change begins in Copenhagen, The Coca-Cola Company and its bottling partners today announced that 100 percent of their new vending machines and coolers will be hydrofluorocarbon-free (HFC-free) by 2015.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The IFF team, which won the brief, wound up pouring in a new hydrofluorocarbon gas extraction of blackcurrant from the natural raw materials company LMR (which IFF owns) that gives a blackcurrant without the cat-pee animalic that sometimes plagues the material, leaving instead a dark, fruity, superclean berry.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

(hydrofluorocarbon), which do not contain chlorine, do not deplete the ozone layer and are compatible with SED regulations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news] Reference

"China America Holdings, Inc. is the creative intersection of the distribution of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants that are utilized in a variety of applications.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

(2) a phase out of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants which contribute greatly to global warming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Winston: Celebrating Green Business Success in Cancun] Reference

B) is full of fire retardants that should be banned, and c) is made with hydrofluorocarbon blowing agents that are terrible greenhouse gases that mean Mr. Kam will have to live in his net zero house for as many as a hundred years before he has paid off the greenhouse gases emitted in their production.    From Wordnik.com.  [TreeHugger] Reference