solar powered refrigerator Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 16 Sep 2015 04:47:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Solar Refrigerators Use Salt to Store Energy During Off Hours https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-refrigerators-salt-energy-storage/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-refrigerators-salt-energy-storage/#respond Wed, 16 Sep 2015 04:47:56 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56648 Solar-powered refrigerators will go completely off the grid if a certain team of Australian researchers has anything to do with it. They have recently won the Australian Museum’s Eureka Prizes for their breakthrough with a salt-based material that can store energy. Glaciem Cooling Technologies is working on commercializing the idea, so the system may be available […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-refrigerators-salt-energy-storage/feed/ 0 56648 Solar Powered Refrigerator Invented by 23 yo Emily Cummins https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-powered-refrigerator-cummins/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-powered-refrigerator-cummins/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:57:45 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=11471 Emily Cummins, a 23-year old girl from the UK, has been named an Oslo Business for Peace Honouree for inventing a solar powered refrigerator - basically a device that uses water evaporation to extract heat (just like your skin gets colder when your sweat evaporates off).

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