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Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!)

Posted by timothy on from the loud-food dept.

T-Kir writes "A very interesting report from the BBC where researchers at Penn State University are developing a prototype fridge that cools using metal plates and sound waves. If successful, this technology would help remove the dependance on gases that contribute to global warming. Talk about Cool!"

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  1. Re:old! by Jafafa+Hots · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    hey, no troll! I'm serious.

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  2. Re:In Soviet Russia by flikx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Vhaaat a kuunntreee!

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  3. Wonderful! by denzo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Now when there's farting sounds in the room, I can point to the fridge when my wife gives me a scornful glance.

  4. Decibel Mathmatics for n00bz by e.m.rainey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Decibels aren't on a linear scale. Your 53db is a logrithmic difference. Every 3db in difference is a doubleing of intensity. 123db is twice as intense as 120db. So 53/3 = 17.6667 which means 173db is 2^17.6667 times as loud as 120db. Which is actually 208063.83 times as loud. Which means the article was still wrong. Here's a link about decibel math: here.

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