Talk:Einstein refrigerator

message: tion refrigerator and while it kept stuff cold enough that it didn't spoil it certainly didn't keep stuff as cold as a vapour compression refrigerator.  The wikipedia page on Kerosene lamp gives some hints as to why kerosene burning fridges vanished without invoking any conspiracy: cost, smell, and soot.  Given patents have a limited life (20 years in the US) and are public knowledge it is hard to see if these type of refrigerator was a valid competitor how anyone could have kept it quiet all this time. --BruceGrubb (talk) 07:43, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

message: Just curious, the page states that the machine caused numerous deaths due to leaks of ammonia, but when I read about Ammonia on Wikipedia it hardly looks like such leaks could cause numerous deaths. I know little about chemistry, but either the health risks in the article about ammonia are understated, or the information here about it causing deaths is inaccurate.
:I can't believe the claims of ammonia leaks causing death either and have not found a credible source for it. I have removed the claim from the article. -- Marcika 15:26, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Last year (2005) a dozen or more people suffered serious respiratory problems as a result of a leak in a large ammonia absorption fridge in a meatworks in Melbourne.  I don't recall anyone dying. njh 10:39, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Health risks 

message: I think someone needs to look at merging and rearranging the material on Icyball, Absorptive refrigeration, Gas absorption refrigerator and Einstein refrigerator.  (It might be me :) njh 10:31, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. I cannot easily see the differences between this article and  Absorptive refrigeration. bendodge 22:03, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

text: There is a lot of content overlap with the articles you mentioned, as well as the Vaccine cooler article. There was a somewhat recent change to remove most of the overlapping content w/ Vaccine cooler; a more recent change was made to add back in one of the removed examples, and I have just added one back in as well. I believe these two in particular belong in this article in that they are specific examples of work being done on Einstein refrigerators, not absorption refrigerators in general. -- Eindiran (talk) 21:12, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge/restructure 

message: Refrigerators that sound a lot like this are in use on boats and RVs, where propane gas as a fuel source is much more practical than electricity--Mongreilf (talk) 14:21, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boats and RVs 

message: Would the Einstein refrigerator be suitable for use as an air conditioner? The mechanical principles behind refrigeration and air conditioning are quite similar, and the obvious difference is that air conditioning units are designed to send 'waste' heat outside of the enclosed building. (Refrigerators as a rule send the waste heat into the room in which the refrigerator runs).--Paul from Michigan (talk) 12:50, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Air conditioning 

message: Instead of a heat pump, could a mere solar mirror, fresnel lense or concentrator be used. Seems quite expensive otherwise.
81.246.189.106 (talk) 13:22, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Oxford fridge

message: Should not this article be moved to Einstein-Szilard refrigerator? They are joint signatories on the patent. Is Einstein refrigerator the common name for it? If so, I've never heard it called after Einstein on his own.--ML5 (talk) 11:52, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: About 1/4th as many Google hits; plenty for bold in the intro. 99.55.163.191 (talk) 22:35, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

text: Einstein and Szilard themselves named it the "Einstein Refrigerator" in the document shown in the article, notice the name in big letters and the signatures of both inventors. 77.215.46.17 (talk) 20:59, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to [[Einstein-Szilard refrigerator]] 

message: While very similar, the image does not depict a GE Monitor Top refrigerator as it states. MicahWes (talk) 02:19, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct. The Monitor Top fridge was named for its visual similarity to the USS Monitor which appeared to be carrying a round hatbox on deck. The one shown is the "Flat Top" model, a redesign of the Monitor Top.
Snezzy (talk) 13:18, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  GE Monitor Top Image 

message: "About 2008, a team of scientists at Oxford University revived as a vaccine cooler the Einstein refrigerator." This sentence does not roll easily off the tongue.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.254.154.105 (talk) 13:47, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wording 

message: "One variant, the Einstein–Szilard electromagnetic refrigerator used a Einstein–Szilard electromagnetic pump ..."
from the article.   I think it may obey similar principles but isn't the same thing.l  Heat pumps are big now, I hear.. 
Know Einstein (talk) 22:32, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  are there parallels here with heat pumps? 

message: would smell as...
Two or three edits ago, this was deleted from the article. I reverted and criticised that deletion. The OP responded by rephrasing thus.
IMHO this is somewhat silly. 
Speaking of 
:a) ""
is really not all that different from talking about
:b) "".
Who are we kidding? The implication is exactly the same. Whether explicitly or implicitly non-toxic, both paragraphs still make it very clear to the man on the Clapham omnibus that Freon is, per either edit, supposed to be considered non-toxic and less harmful. I know this turn is partly my own fault, because in a highly literal sense, the OP has given me exactly what I asked for. Nevertheless, I stand by my earlier critique, and I can't help but wonder, why this eagerness to paint Freon in a positive light – and why so averse to any mention of the unforeseen but subsequently revealed major planet-scale side effects of its use? —ReadOnlyAccount (talk) 20:09, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  A ruse by any other name...