speederaser

speederaser t1_j1bd4w4 wrote

My company makes the world's smallest "practical" refrigerator. I say practical because you can indeed make smaller refrigerators that use thermoelectrics or other methods, but they are not useful because they are too slow to cool or don't work if the room gets slightly warm or slightly humid. For those reasons we use a phase change refrigerant like just about every other refrigerator on the planet, but the smallest one in the world.

This is the application of all the other comments in the thread. For practical reasons, like size, energy density... us engineers usually end up choosing phase change refrigerants.

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speederaser t1_irz6xx1 wrote

That makes me wonder why we have it on the license at all? Surely there's a reason.

If it's so a medic can identify the correct medicine to give you based on your sex while you are unconscious/dying, that would be pretty important to have that correct on your license.

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