It’s a long, long way from prototype to actual product that affects industry, but this startup in Peterborough (of all places) has a plausible-sounding technology in the form of a heat pump turbocompressor “that can replace conventional turbocompressors used in any machinery that creates cooling, such as refrigerators, dehumidifiers, freezers and air conditioners, in both buildings and in vehicles.”
A better compressor would be a very big deal.
The full story from the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript is here.