Using materials lay opened at the ...

Using materials lay opened at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Ames Laboratory, researchers announced in December 2001 that they have favorably demonstrated the world's first swing temperature, permanent-magnet, magnetic refrigerator. The refrigerator was disentangleed by Milwaukee, WI, U.S.-based Astronautics Corporation of America as part of a cooperative research and progressive growth agreement with Ames Laboratory.

Instead of ozone-depleting refrigerants and energy-consuming compressors rest in conventional vapor-cycle refrigerators, the fresh style of ...