Tuesday, Nov 23, 2004 at 19:12
This is where it becomes interesting.
Back in March or April, I actually called Blue Apple here in
Strathalbyn in South Australia, and right off the bat, posed the question.
Well, there was a pause, then something along the lines of " we're working on that... who is this calling?"
This could simply be a standard response. If you are a manufacturer of something, and someone calls you in regards to something new, of course you will answer as above! If you don't, you open up a can of worms as far as protection rights and disclosures are concerned.
Anyway...........
I did a very small amount of research, and found how the system works.
Old technology..... very old. It still has a long way to go.
The one thing you have to remember is......... you can only extract SO MUCH ENERGY from a finite source, such as a gas cylinder. Gas burns at a certain rate, and will produce a FIXED & FINITE amount of energy, not ONE JOULE MORE!
So, the claims of running a fridge for a month on a bottle of gas, which has to go through a conversion from heat to electricity, then from electricity to heat absorption, through a compressor, just doesn't seem to work out math wise to me.
The claims made on the net have been exaggerated enormously, and does not lend credence to the proposed product.
As your friend suggests, companies are working all of the time on new products, and we will see something at a later date, but to what effectiveness, I wonder....
Now, after all that..... if one came out on the market tomorrow, and worked as per purported claims, I would be the first to buy one, and rescind everything I have just written.
Cheers
Wolfie
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