{"id":168733,"date":"2023-07-31T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-invented-an-entirely-new-process-for-refrigerating-things"},"modified":"2023-07-31T10:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T15:22:27","slug":"scientists-invented-an-entirely-new-process-for-refrigerating-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-invented-an-entirely-new-process-for-refrigerating-things","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Invented an Entirely New Process For Refrigerating Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-invented-an-entirely-new-process-for-refrigerating-things2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Say hello to ionocaloric cooling. It\u2019s a new way to lower temperatures with the potential to replace existing methods of chilling things with a process that is safer and better for the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Typical refrigeration systems transport heat away from a space via a gas that cools as it expands some distance away. As effective as this process is, some of the choice gases we use are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/it-looks-like-someone-is-producing-an-internationally-banned-ozone-destroying-chemical-once-again\">particularly unfriendly<\/a> to the environment.<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, more than one way a substance can be forced to absorb and shed heat energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say hello to ionocaloric cooling. It\u2019s a new way to lower temperatures with the potential to replace existing methods of chilling things with a process that is safer and better for the planet. Typical refrigeration systems transport heat away from a space via a gas that cools as it expands some distance away. As effective [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}