Adam grosser absorption refrigerator distilled

This is a work in process,

based on some comments that were made at TED two years ago

about the need for the storage of vaccine.

don't have access to electricity

the storage of food and medicine

So here's the plan inexpensive refrigeration

that doesn't use electricity, propane, gas, kerosene or consumables

time for some thermodynamics

And the story of the Intermittent Absorption Refrigerator]

Adam Grosser: So 29 years ago, I had this thermo teacher

who talked about absorption and refrigeration, one of those things

that stuck in my head, a lot like the Stirling engine:

it was cool, but you didn't know what to do with it.

It was invented in , by this guy Ferdinand Carré,

but he couldn't actually build anything with it

because of the tools at the time.

This crazy Canadian named Powel Crosley commercialized this thing

called the IcyBall, in

It was a really neat id