Host Steve Curwood talks to Benedict Herlin of Greenpeace about Germany’s CFC-free hydrocarbon refrigerator. The Green Freeze fridge is proving popular in Germany, despite concern that early refrigerators run on similar fuels were prone to explosion.
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