Comparing HC refirgerant to propane cylinders is totally apples and oranges.
Propane cylinders are pretty robust. If you have a car accident severe enough to rupture on in your passenger compartment, you're merely saving your family cremation expenses.
A refrigerant in a high temperature, high pressure state located in a thin metal coil at the very front end of a car, however, is going to explode and/or ignite very easily upon any impact. The location of the condenser and the state of the refrigerant while the system is on couldn't be more of a fire hazard! It's not going to incinerate the car, but it probably will ignite other things in the engine bay.
How often are people knocked unconscious or need to be extracted from a car after a collision? Adding a fire to an otherwise minor collision might not help.
This stuff has been around for decades, but running it would be totally negligent, IMHO. Actually, I thing it would have to be characterized as pretty stupid.
Propane cylinders are pretty robust. If you have a car accident severe enough to rupture on in your passenger compartment, you're merely saving your family cremation expenses.
A refrigerant in a high temperature, high pressure state located in a thin metal coil at the very front end of a car, however, is going to explode and/or ignite very easily upon any impact. The location of the condenser and the state of the refrigerant while the system is on couldn't be more of a fire hazard! It's not going to incinerate the car, but it probably will ignite other things in the engine bay.
How often are people knocked unconscious or need to be extracted from a car after a collision? Adding a fire to an otherwise minor collision might not help.
This stuff has been around for decades, but running it would be totally negligent, IMHO. Actually, I thing it would have to be characterized as pretty stupid.
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