Mark H. Wood wrote: > Well, it's a tangled mess. There are many different chemicals which > have been sold under the Freon name. Mr. Brown may have confused any > of these with Halon, another large family of fluorocarbons which > *have* been used for fire suppression, including data centers.
Right. But in the book, the Freon is explicitly said to be a _cooling_ agent. The cooling cables come loose in the fire and Freon sprays everywhere. It's not Freon being deliberately released as a fire suppression agent. I don't know about every Halon out there -- maybe there are some which can do double duty as cooling agents. But the fact the Freon is ascribed as a coolant first and has no fire-fighting properties Brown sees fit to talk about makes me think he intended for it to be coolant gas which was escaping, not a fire suppression system which was activating. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
