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?   
      
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