New Technologies

[frank]

Has anyone heard of this new type of refrigeration?
Comments welcome
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1='thermoacoustic+chiller'&OS=

P.S.
Do a Google search for Thermoacoustic chillers for more info.

[Brian_UK]

Has anyone heard of this new type of refrigeration? Was that an intended pun Frank;) ;)

Some further reading on the subject is required methinks.

[frank]

Hi Brian :)

These are the people that funded the research into the new technology. http://www.benjerry.com/our_company/press_center/press/thermoacoustics.html

[Brian_UK]

Ice cream again is it ??

[Krups]

yea i heard about this before...seems very "cool"...as it were...
man id love to work on stuff like this...
even that cool chips stuff seems good...
as soon as the technology to produce this stuff in commercial systems is cheap enough...say good bye to refrigerants...
although i can't understand why its taking so long ?
do the gas people have some sort of racketering going on or what?