How soon will we be able to purchase commercial thermoacoustic refrigerators and air conditioners?
A license for the intellectual property surrounding the Bellows Bounce prototype is in the final stages of negotiations with a new company. Details will be posted on this website as they become available, and also on the corporations site. This entry into the commercial sphere is a big step for the technology, although other companies have made some inroads into commercialization of other kinds of thermoacoustic machines, notably CFIC in Tonawanda, NY) and Praxair. Despite the formation of a new company surrounding the new prototype designs, we expect that it will be at least 2-3 more years before thermoacoustic refrigerators start appearing in “specialty” applications and probably longer before they start to appear in appliance stores.
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