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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] Zero-Electricity Fridge
  • Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:08:57 -0800 (PST)

I don't know how useful something like this could be on a remote homestead,
or if the power went out. I'm still trying to find more information, this
article is only an overview (has a drawing) and doesn't provide a link

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Zero-Electricity Fridge

December 8, 2008, 7:30 AM

How a Zero-Electricity Fridge Will Bring Medicine to the Developing World

Adam Grosser and some geeks from Stanford built a fifty-dollar device that
could cool vaccines where they're needed most.



Hero Design Lab

More than a billion people lack access to electricity and refrigeration,
which means they also lack access to important vaccines that need to be kept
cool. Nonprofits are pouring millions into developing vaccines that don't
need refrigeration, but tech venture capitalist Adam Grosser has a different
idea: change the fridge.

Working with a thermodynamics team at Stanford, Grosser built a thermos-sized
device that contains a refrigerant that's triggered when the device is heated
and left to cool. It then acts like a powerful cold pack, turning anything
from a jug to a hole in the ground into a twenty-four-hour minifridge. At
roughly fifty dollars apiece, Grosser's device could potentially bring people
in the developing world high-maintenance medicines -- and the simple pleasure
of a cold drink on a hot day.

http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2008/no-electricity-fridge-1208







  • [Homestead] Zero-Electricity Fridge, bob ford, 12/12/2008

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