Seeing title:

revolutionary

Rule: when someone claims a revolutionary product, it’s probably bullshit as I see revolutionary product announcements about twice a day and real revolutions about once every decade at best.

Reading article:

Yeap, this is something somewhere in some lab that one day maybe a decade from now find its way into a consumer product, but probably not air conditioners anyway…

For the moment it sort of sounds sort of like a Peltier cooler, which also is useless for airconditioning

You know what’s even cheaper to run than this “new technology”? Breathy promotion pieces that give no evidence whatsoever to support it’s claims. Way to go, PR folks.

I searched for “nitinol cooling system” and found articles dating back to 2016 about the same technology at a German university –

https://newatlas.com/shape-memory-refrigerant-free/41652

https://newatlas.com/shape-memory-alloy-nitinol-heating-cooling/58837/

Cool tech, but this recent article lacks substance compared to the older ones. Also interesting that the German team claimed 2x better efficiency than a typical heat pump.

Good for Slovenia.

Extremely interesting. Some technical challenges remain, but so many applications if solved.