News tagged with refrigerator

Low temperatures enhance ozone degradation above the Arctic

Extraordinarily cold temperatures in the winter of 2010/2011 caused the most massive destruction of the ozone layer above the Arctic so far: The mechanisms leading to the first ozone hole above the North Pole ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Google sees Android enhancing home appliances

Google's Android software is best known for powering smartphones, but executive chairman Eric Schmidt sees a future where it could also help devices communicate at home.

Technology / Software

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Quick-cooking nanomaterials in microwave to make tomorrow's air conditioners

Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method for creating advanced nanomaterials that could lead to highly efficient refrigerators and cooling systems requiring no ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

LG fridge chills cans, bottles in just minutes

South Korea's LG Electronics, a leader in smart appliances, has hit on a solution to a common frustration -- how to chill canned or bottled drinks in less than half an hour.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 6

Thinner thermal insulation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Insulation panels that are both thin and effective are expensive. At present these high-end products are built into energy-saving refrigerators. Innovative components and production techniques ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Curtailing open grocery refrigerators' energy loss

Open refrigerated display cases holding eggs, cheese, drinks and more are a favorite of supermarket chains. Despite the easy access they offer customers, the inefficient energy-guzzlers cost retailers a huge ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brown bag lunches overheating and possibly unsafe

In a new study published in Pediatrics, researchers reveal that more than 90 percent of the perishable food items found in the school lunches they tested had reached unsafe temperatures by the time they w ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

There is a solution to energy-gulping always-on TV boxes

So your TV show's over. You pick up the remote and press the button. Everything's off, right?

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Roman ship carried live fish in tank

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report published in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology shows that Roman fishing ships may have used a pumping system to supply oxygenated water to an onboard fish tank. ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Anesthetic gases heat climate as much as 1 million cars

When doctors want their patients asleep during surgery they gently turn the gas tap. But Anaesthetic gasses have a global warming potential as high as a refrigerant that is on its way to being banned in the ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 03, 2010 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (8) | comments 11

Physicists propose quantum refrigerator

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Bristol in the UK have proposed a refrigerator that consists of just a few quantum particles -- qubits.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 01, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

New system to reduce heating costs in cold climates

A new type of heat pump being developed at Purdue University could allow residents in cold climates to cut their heating bills in half.

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

An energy-saving magnetic fridge? Perhaps, but first some basic research

(PhysOrg.com) -- Forget the magnets on your fridge. How about a magnet in your fridge, one that keeps your leftover pizza cold while consuming less energy than today’s refrigerators?

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 05, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (24) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Fast food lamb curries have carbon footprint of 140 million car miles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Supermarket lamb curry ready-made meals eaten in the UK amount to an annual carbon footprint equivalent to 5,500 car trips around the world or 140 million car miles.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 17, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Sunlight with cooling factor

Although it sounds like a contradiction in terms, using the power of the sun for refrigeration is proving to be an original energy concept. In Tunisia and Morocco, Fraunhofer research scientists are using ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2