{"id":226181,"date":"2025-11-30T12:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/scientists-invented-an-entirely-new-way-to-refrigerate"},"modified":"2025-11-30T12:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:04:57","slug":"scientists-invented-an-entirely-new-way-to-refrigerate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/scientists-invented-an-entirely-new-way-to-refrigerate","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Invented an Entirely New Way to Refrigerate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-invented-an-entirely-new-way-to-refrigerate.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 fluid that absorbs heat as it evaporates into a gas, which is then transported through a closed tube and condensed back into a liquid.<\/p>\n<p>As effective as this process is, some of the choice materials we use as refrigerants 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","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 fluid that absorbs heat as it evaporates into a gas, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226181","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}