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Compressor-Free Refrigerator On the Way
Iddo Genuth writes "Scientists from Penn State University are designing the future of refrigerators and other cooling devices through magnetic field refrigeration. The investigation pertaining to electrically induced heat effects of some ferroelectric polymers might one day replace electrically powered refrigerators and their compressors and coils. The researchers are focusing on ferroelectric polymers that exhibit temperature changes at room temperature under an electrical field. The same technology might also find its way into computers and other devices in the future, making them run cooler without complex cooling mechanisms."
Yeah... you go ahead and use magnets to "cool" your computer. Let me know how that works out. For our younger readers: holding magnets close to food doesn't turn the food into a useless brick, but holding a magnet near a computer will probably do that.
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What I want to know is how this is affected by my huge collection of fridge magnets?
Will one more souvenir magnet from a trip cause my milk to spoil? Or will I have to thaw my mustard? :-P
Cheers
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Then ????????
Then comes the singularity.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
Oh,no, I fell for that once. I'm not falling for it again. You know what they say, fool me once, shame... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again.
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Then ????????
Then comes the profit!
Fixed that for you.
Just file down the large prong to fit in the narrow socket so you can plug it in with reverse polarity.
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