Scientists Just Invented an Entirely New Way to Refrigerate Things
9th January 2023
“The landscape of refrigerants is an unsolved problem,” says mechanical engineer Drew Lilley, from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. “No one has successfully developed an alternative solution that makes stuff cold, works efficiently, is safe, and doesn’t hurt the environment.”
“We think the ionocaloric cycle has the potential to meet all those goals if realized appropriately.”
So they haven’t invented it yet, they just have a theory that they might (and might not) turn into a viable product. But that’s as much truth as one can expect from the media these days….