{"id":13303,"date":"2013-03-12T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13303"},"modified":"2013-03-12T03:00:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T08:00:37","slug":"the-little-refrigerator-that-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13303","title":{"rendered":"The Little Refrigerator That Could"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/pml\/div686\/refrigerator-030513.cfm\">NIST Quantum Refrigerator Offers Extreme Cooling and Convenience<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he NIST refrigerator&#8217;s cooling elements, consisting of 48 tiny sandwiches of specific materials, chilled a plate of copper, 2.5 centimeters on a side and 3 millimeters thick, from 290 mK to 256 mK. The cooling process took about 18 hours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One thing not mentioned: this almost certainly does not scale up. It works starting at ~300 mK, but the performance<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The cooling power is the equivalent of a window-mounted air conditioner cooling a building the size of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>doesn&#8217;t mean you are going to be able to build an air-conditioner-sized device and actually cool the Lincoln Memorial, unless you got it down to 300 mK first. (Then we&#8217;ll talk)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIST Quantum Refrigerator Offers Extreme Cooling and Convenience [T]he NIST refrigerator&#8217;s cooling elements, consisting of 48 tiny sandwiches of specific materials, chilled a plate of copper, 2.5 centimeters on a side and 3 millimeters thick, from 290 mK to 256 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13303\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}