[geeks] books on refridgeration and cooling

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: James Sharp [mailto:jsharp at psychoses.org]
~ Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 5:05 PM
~ To: 'geeks at sunhelp.org'
~ Subject: RE: [geeks] books on refridgeration and cooling
~ 
~ 
~ > I used to have a camper refridgerator that used a propane 
~ flame to compress
~ > and evaporate the freon (using a dual check valve), so you 
~ don't always need
~ > a compressor (not efficient for larger applications).
~ 
~ The Servell units.  It took me forever to wrap my brain 
~ around the fact
~ that it *burned* propane to *cool* the unit.  DOES NOT COMPUTE.

Great things. These are hugely popular in Europe and the third world where
electricity is not steady, not available in large quantities, or expensive.