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