XPost: comp.lang.misc, sci.physics.relativity, sci.math
From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com

On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:13:22 -0800, The Starmaker
 wrote:

>On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:50:10 +0100, Thomas Heger 
>wrote:
>
>>Am Dienstag000016, 16.12.2025 um 22:58 schrieb Paul.B.Andersen:
>>> Den 16.12.2025 08:44, skrev Thomas Heger:
>>>> Am Montag000015, 15.12.2025 um 14:05 schrieb Paul.B.Andersen:
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you never read the posts you are responding to?
>>>>>
>>>>> Einstein and Szilard's patent was bought by the Swedish company
>>>>> Electrolux, which built and sold a lot of absorption refrigerators.
>>>>>
>>>>> In 1953 (when I was a kid) my parents bought
>>>>> an Electrolux absorption refrigerator.
>>>>>
>>>>> I and thousands of other people have seen working fridges
>>>>> based on Einstein and Szilard's patent.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No, because this is a 'non sequitur'.
>>>>
>>>> Thousands of people baught absorption fridges from Electrolux.
>>>>
>>>> Sure!
>>>>
>>>> But how many of them investigated, whether or not these fridges were
>>>> based upon Einstein's patent?
>>>>
>>>> My guess: not a single buyer did that, because nobody cared.
>>>
>>> Why are you stating this irrelevant obvious triviality?
>>
>>
>>This was a reply to 'my parents bougth an Electrolux refridgerator'.
>>
>>I wanted to express, that buying a fridge does not prove, that this
>>fridge was build according to Einstein's patent.
>>
>>Sure, Electrolux gave Einstein money.
>>
>>But that's all we could safely assume.
>>
>>Possibly Electrolux was involved in building fast breeding reactors, but
>>wanted to keep that secret.
>>
>>But how could we today possibly know????
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>> So, we have a few facts:
>>>>
>>>> Einstein and Szillard patented a fridge
>>>> Electrolux gave them (a lot of) money
>>>> Electrolux sold tons of fridges
>>>
>>> ... some of which were based on on Einstein and Szillard's patent.
>>
>>
>>THAT was actually the question.
>>
>>Iow: was that patented device actually an absorption fridge or a part
>>needed for a fast breeding reactor????
>>
>>We could check that by building a 'fridge' according to Einstein's
>>patent and check whether or not it cools.
>>
>>But we actually don't need to do that, because a group of engineering
>>students did that already and found out, that Einstein's 'fridge' did
>>NOT cool.
>>
>>Instead it is common knowledge, that Einstein's 'fridge' is used in fast
>>breeding reactors.
>>
>>The endresult:
>>
>>two points for fast breeding reactor
>>
>>zero points for 'fridge'.
>>
>>
>>TH
>>
>>...
>
>"common knowledge"??? that is lacking with these people...
>
>"Never used in refrigerators, their pump was later adapted for the
>circulation of coolants in the controversial fast-breeder nuclear
>reactor—“an irony that would not have been lost on either Einstein or
>Szilard.” (Bernard Feld, Einstein and Nuclear Weapons, Holton and
>Elkana, p. 391.)"


Looks to me like  EVERYBODY has a patent on a Refridgerator!

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=f6c74f9de523a440&sxsrf=AE3
ifPNUc33Lgs_q5P7-XN0_4gmLM5k7Q:1766173780459&udm=2&fbs=&q=Pressu
ized+Water+Reactor


Where can I buy one?

https://twitter.com/Starmaker111/status/1148279328121090048/photo/1

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