Another of Albert Einstein's accomplishments, in conjunction with Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard, was the invention of a refrigerator that operates without electricity, or the environmentally damaging freons currently used in fridges. Malcolm McCulloch, a scientist at Oxford University in Britain, is leading a team to revive development of the idea. Einstein and Szilard's idea avoids the need for freons. It uses ammonia, butane and water and takes advantage of ... Read full entry
Could the Einstein fridge help save the environment?
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 23 September, 2008 to the technology subset
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