Posted on 02/10/2012 6:57:01 AM PST by freedombiz
An Irvine company has developed what it calls "the world's first self-chilling can" that drops a beverage's temperature 30 degrees in minutes at the push of a button without electricity.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
It uses CO2 to cool with ,,, RUN! RUN! it’ll kill the earth!!
I thought they had something like this before with a CO2 cartridge that dropped the temp on a beverage can when it was broken/released...it was something of a fad for about 2 months but the cost/price wasn’t worth it so it died a quick death. Maybe they’ve found a better (cheaper) way?
I’m thinking it’s going to depend on what portion of that $3.95 price is attributed to the can. I’m sure the skepticism was as great with the self heating meals in the MREs the military uses.
I carry dry ice in my job and I can tell you that it does a poor job of cooling beverages ... it has great potential but the “cold” is carried away in it’s gas .. it doesn’t transfer well to a liquid.. “wet ice” works better in liquids.. dry ice or pressurized liquid co2 works best in closed environments. Honestly I think you get almost the same temp drop in a fountain soda (no ice) just from the co2 expansion..
The same article calls this ‘world’s first’...and then goes on to remind us of the last time this was tried and failed. The only difference is the type of gas used.
I don’t want to be a naysayer...but we seem to have mastered styrofoam cooler technology. This is gimmicky...neat to try once, but not really necessary. I wonder if they will sell the exact same drink and size in an ‘unchilled’ version, at a lower price.
If I need to cool down a can of beer, I just tell Mrs. blueunicorn6 that I’m going to buy a Porsche and then I hold up the can and she gives me that look and it hits the can and sometimes even the beer freezes.
Does anybody else remember reading about this decades ago?
Considering how long it took to get their first customer, I doubt, they are going to be signing many more customers in the near future.
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