Oh great, I guess I will just throw out the food ruined by Katrina (power outage down here in S. Florida) and wait to buy more. In fact, I think we'll just start eating dried and canned foods..... I wish someone would invent a way of keeping food cold that didn't require either electricity or a gas powered generator.
susie
Dry ice in great big coolers.
Dry ice.
susie, there are absorption-type refrigeration units that use a flame- usually bottled gas. They are ( or were ) common in marine applications where a big electrical system is not available. The downside ( as I recall, it's been 35 years or more ) is that they are expensive compared to units that run off household electricity.
Einstein did; it's based on a mixture of three relatively common chemicals and has no mechanical parts.
Electrolux holds the patents.
Due to the hurricane, no cheers, unfortunately.