Refrigeration Hasn’t Changed in 70 Years – This Breakthrough Is Changing Everything

Scitech Daily ^ | February 01,2025 | Cell Press

[Lazamataz]

by Yilin Zeng, Boyang Yu, Ming Chen, Jinkai Zhang, Pei Liu, Jinhua Guo, Jun Wang, Guang Feng, Jun Zhou and Jiangjiang Duan

We are so screwed.

[Lake Living]

A free bat with every purchase!

[martin_fierro]

I-ce what you did there.

[JJBookman]

...what a minute, that’s not even cold?

[grey_whiskers]

😆

[Deaf Smith]

Is there anything Brawndo can’t do?

It’s got electrolytes.

[Fai Mao]

I rode in a taxi in HK where the driver didn’t want to use his lights at night so that he wouldn’t run his battery down.

I reported him to the taxi company.

[RetiredTexasVet]

You nailed it. Maybe it will be powered with free electric from the E-Cat cold fusion generator.

[KarlInOhio]

Whether the refrigerant is ammonia, butane (like many small devices now), freon or some of the new freon substitutes the operation hasn’t changed. You might change the pressures and temperatures it operates at but it still works by compressing a gas into a liquid and then allowing that liquid to expand back into a cold gas.

[Myrddin]

I made a service call on a research sub. As part of my visit, I got a "nickel tour". One of the interesting features of the sub was the array of Peltier devices bonded "hot side" to the cold rolled steel hull. The cold side was an air plenum. Electrical power applied to the array made the plenum cold. It is a safer way to cool a sub. You can't use conventional fluorocarbon coolants because the turn into phosgene gas in a fire.

[FrozenAssets]

Old Uncle Snerd was at the doctor one day. The doc said, “Well how’s it going?”
Snerd said “oh great when I get up to pee in the night I open the bathroom door and the good lord turns on the light for me!”
Aunt Snort said, “Oh jeez the old buggger is peeing in the refrigerator agaon!”

[Openurmind]

Yes, Peltier cells. They have been used for small portable refrigerators for decades. This is what the portable 12V plugin icechests use. Sounds like the old Peltier cells are actually more efficient than these are. They will get colder.

[Colorado Doug]

by Yilin Zeng, Boyang Yu, Ming Chen, Jinkai Zhang, Pei Liu, Jinhua Guo, Jun Wang, Guang Feng, Jun Zhou and Jiangjiang Duan
We are so screwed.

Yeah but I'll bet that they don't know any trans, lesbian, two spirited slam poets, nor do they know how many potential genders there are. So there is that. They probably got their degrees in something useless.

[Z28.310]

"...They furnished off an apartment with a two room roebuck sale
The coolerator was crammed with TV dinners and ginger ale..."

Lyrics "YOU NEVER CAN TELL"

Bring back the coolerator!

[Rio]

Well, she is blonde.....................

We already guessed that.

[SamAdams76]

Well if it’s acclaimed in Hollywood and on the TeeVee, why Martha and I need to get one of these gadgets, and fast.

[Z28.310]

As a comic relief, I’ve enjoyed referring to it as a coolerator. I’d never heard the term until I looked into those lyrics. Oddly enough, everyone who hears me use the term laughs, but knows I’m actually referencing the refrigerator.

All in light humor