>
AI-Powered "Digital Workers" Deployed At Major Bank To Work Alongside Humans
New 'Mind Reading" AI Predicts What Humans Do Next
Dr. Bryan Ardis Says Food Producers Add 'Obesogens' to Food and Drugs to Make Us Fat
Health Ranger Report: Team AGES exposes Big Pharma's cancer scam and threats from AI
xAI Grok 3.5 Renamed Grok 4 and Has Specialized Coding Model
AI goes full HAL: Blackmail, espionage, and murder to avoid shutdown
BREAKING UPDATE Neuralink and Optimus
1900 Scientists Say 'Climate Change Not Caused By CO2' – The Real Environment Movement...
New molecule could create stamp-sized drives with 100x more storage
DARPA fast tracks flight tests for new military drones
ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study
How China Won the Thorium Nuclear Energy Race
Sunlight-Powered Catalyst Supercharges Green Hydrogen Production by 800%
Scientists may have just found the perfect substitute for the inefficient and polluting gases used in most refrigerators and air conditioners.
Researchers from the UK and Spain have begun using a kind of organic plastic crystal called "neopentylglycol." (The word "plastic" refers not to its chemical composition, but rather to its malleability.)
When put under pressure, these plastic crystals yield huge cooling effects – enough that they are competitive with conventional coolants. Additionally, the material is inexpensive, widely available, and functions at close to room temperature.
Details of their discovery are published in the journal Nature Communications.
The gases currently used in the vast majority of refrigerators and air conditioners —hydrofluorocarbons and hydrocarbons (HFCs and HCs) — are toxic and flammable. When they leak into the air, they also contribute to global warming.
"Refrigerators and air conditioners based on HFCs and HCs are also relatively inefficient," said Dr. Xavier Moya, a professor from the University of Cambridge and leader of the research.