Refrigeration

Environment

Eco-friendly plastic crystals take the gas out of refrigeration

Scientists led by the University of Cambridge have developed a way to replace the organic gases used in most conventional refrigerators with plastic crystals. By using crystals of neopentyl glycol under pressure, it may be possible to build safer, greener, and more efficient cooling systems.

A bottle of beer is cooled using the new magnetic refrigeration system developed by GE

Science

Your next fridge could keep cold more efficiently using magnets

GE researchers have developed a new type of refrigeration technology using magnets that is more environmentally friendly and is predicted to be 20 to 30 percent more efficient that current technology ... and could be in household fridges by the end of the decade.

The US Department of Energy will be using fuel cells to power the refrigeration units of four cold transport trailers (Photo: Shutterstock)

Environment

Cold transport trucks to cool their cargo using fuel cells

As part of a two-year pilot project, the US Department of Energy will be using fuel cells to power the refrigeration units of four cold transport trailers.

Raser Technologies has begun delivering 10 megawatts (MW) of clean, renewable electricity to Anaheim, California, from its first low-temperature, binary geothermal plant

Environment

Raser low-temperature binary geothermal plant goes online

Raser Technologies has begun delivering 10 megawatts (MW) of clean, renewable electricity to Anaheim, California, from its first low-temperature, binary geothermal plant, the Hatch Geothermal Power Plant in Beaver County, Utah.