Although magnetocaloric cooling as a concept has been around for many years, in 2006, GE began exploring the technology for home refrigeration. A team of GE researchers started from scratch to show ...

The way a refrigerator keeps Chobanis chilly today isn’t all that different from how Jell-O trays were cooled and set in the 1950s. Fridges have been built using the the same basic physics for about ...

A warming world is going to need a lot of cold drinks. Problem is, today’s refrigeration tech is anything but climate friendly. The way we cool our food and drinks has barely changed in a century and ...

Scientists in the Netherlands say they've found a more energy-efficient cooling method for hydrogen that avoids using ...

The traditional vapor-compression cycle used in refrigeration may be relegated to the history books if researchers are right about magnetic (magnetocaloric) refrigeration. At least one major appliance ...

The fridge is the most common of common household appliances. Despite improvements in efficiency over the years, they remain one of the biggest users of electricity in the home, relying on chemical ...

Thanks to recent breakthroughs, the insides of our refrigerators could work very differently in the coming years. Scientists at GE are perfecting a method of transferring heat that uses magnets to ...

One of the world's biggest draws of electricity is refrigeration and air conditioning. (Yes, it's somewhat ironic that, by trying to stay cool, we pump millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the ...