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Making Ice Without Electricity

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the old-science-becomes-new-again dept.

j-beda writes "Time Magazine is running an article telling us how Dave Williams is trying to make ice for third-world applications using the Hilsch-Ranque vortex-tube effect (first developed in 1930 by G.J. Ranque), where swirling air is split into hot and cold components." The method is horribly inefficient but Williams is hoping it could yield helpful results in areas where electricity is really not an option.

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  1. The Mosquito Coast by Vellmont · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And I thought this was just a movie. Harrison Ford starred in a movie where a genius inventor makes exactly such a device that makes ice without electricity. Suffice it to say things didn't go to well for his character.

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  2. A movie used this concept... by boschmorden · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Was called The Mosquito Coast, with Harrison Ford. He played this semi-crackpot inventor that went into the rainforest in South America and built one of these machines that made ice without electricity.

    Link is here: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091557/

  3. This is SO "Mosquito Coast"... by rdmiller3 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Didn't anyone see what happened to Harrison Ford in "The Mosquito Coast"?