Cool!
*rimshot*
Is this like when they put the Energizer Bunny’s battery in backwards? He just kept coming and coming.
Appears to be a garden-variety refrigerator, using cold water as the heat exchanger. I can see how they could have a market in UK where refrigerators are the size of dorm refrigerators, but I can’t see the benefit in the US.
Watching the video it seems like the trick is they take the warm beer and switch it for a cold one.
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I’ll stick to my old Amana Radar-Freez, it’s almost as fast.
The secret is .... cold water .... shhhh, don't tell anyone.
A remote method of cooling large volumes of matter - without heat transfer to a cold surface - would be revolutionary. As a technology breakthrough, it would be at least as big as the laser or transistor. It would transform society in ways that would lie far outside the function of basic refrigeration. It would revolutionize energy production and conversion, making new and strange types of engines and energy storage methods possible.
It would have huge implications for medical care, materials science, physics, chemistry, and biology.
For these reasons, I expect that it’s impossible, or at least won’t be possible for maybe 100 years. I think it may be impossible on thermodynamic grounds, but I must confess I can’t give a good chain of induction to support this.
Such a device would be a sort of molecular “anti-sound,” similar at a molecular (phonon) level to the anti-sound technology that is used in noise canceling headphones.
It would require at the - very least - immense computing bandwidth, in conjunction with physical sensors of enormous sensitivity and bandwidth.
Forty five years ago there was an attempt to make an instant chill soft drink can.
When you pulled the tab, you opened and released a vial containing one oz of freon which did the chilling.
I did not go over and was dropped. No one wanted a can with 11 oz of soda when you could have 12 oz cheaper.
Interesting, but I don’t drink beer so it probably not something I’d get.
:p
Interesting, but Dunking a bottle in cold water ain’t exactly a new idea.
Issue in cooling a beverage is how to efficiently remove heat from a beverage inside a container. This is done by cooling the surface of the container.
Some ways I can think of to speed up the process:
Suspend the container in a medium that transfers the heat more efficiently. Air sucketh. Water is a much better heat transfer medium.
Reduce the temperature of the medium. Brine at 20F will cool the beverage faster than water at 35F. Leave the beverage in too long, though, and you’ll freeze it, which might not be desirable.
Circulate the transfer medium constantly past the surface of the container to ensure maximally cold TM in contact at all times. The equivalent of wind chill in air. Without this, you are dependent on convection patterns to carry away the heat, which is inefficient. For instance, suspend beer bottles in an ice and water mix. Attach a fairly large volume pump to the bottom of the tank, suck it out there and recirculate to the top. Constantly flowing water past the bottles should cool them faster than simple immersion dependent on convection for heat transfer.
Find some way to create movement of the liquid inside the container, so it also isn’t dependent on natural convection to transfer heat from the inside of the container to the center of the liquid.
I really like my milk cold, now I can keep it in the pantry and just cool it down by the glass.
I used to just put a case outside in the snow bank, but then the wolves started drinking them. There’s nothing worse than a bunch of sloppy drunk wolves sitting around outside the house singing IT’S 5 O’CLOCK SOMEWHERE. And they think you’re a bar snack. Filthy stinkin’ tone-deaf drunk wolves.
That video shows a rapidly spinning champagne bottle in the fluid bath. Hi risk for messy and wasted bubbly when the cork is popped. In the old days, we used to gently roll cans of beer in an ice bath for about two minutes to achieve the same effect.
Thanks for referencing article Berlin_Freeper. Please bear in mind that following critique is directed against title of the referenced article and not you.
It’s great if the new cooling technology reduces electric bills. But the idea of ‘reverse-microwave’ is not a good analogy as to how this techonolgy works imo. Technology just applies well-known cooling effects.