XPost: comp.lang.misc, sci.physics, sci.math   
   From: ttt_heg@web.de   
      
   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   
      
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