Self-Cooling Soda Bottles Coming Soon
Good news, watered-down soda haters: Ice is dead. According to Mirror.co.uk, Coca-Cola has developed a new bottle that self-cools the liquid contents inside as soon as it is opened. Reportedly, the bottle will first be used for a new Sprite drink called "Super Chilled," which launches next spring.
Unlike those self-heating meals, which use a chemical concoction that often winds up fouling the taste of the food it's supposed to be warming, the bottles are speculated to rely on the simple physics of decompression. When something is compressed it typically gives off heat. When it's rapidly decompressed it absorbs heat, getting cool quickly. This is the same reason the contents of a CO2 fire extinguisher come out ice cold when sprayed.
Incidentally, there's no faster way to cool down a warm can of soda or beer than by spraying it with a CO2 fire extinguisher (if you don't mind the cleanup).
From Boing Boing
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsDylan youngSep 21st 2007 12:30PM
oh well. the hell with it. cold pop, let's not ruin this one you crazi's
sjmatousSep 21st 2007 12:31PM
Here we have the answer to Glogal Warming.
We somehow get Michael Moore, Al Gore and Joe Biden in the same location.
We rapidly decompress the three of them.
We save the glaciers and polar bear for at least one century.
And, if we want to solve the global warming problem for eternity we rapidly decompress Ted Kennedy
kevinbeairSep 21st 2007 12:39PM
coke bad for you anyway, the sugar is bad and it's bad for your teeth but i'm sure this will increase their sales. Cancer is preventable, there are many simple things you can to.
I'm sick of buttheads not recycling, it's buttheads that make fun of the greenie weenie tree huggers that are the problem, I say people should learn to recycle or go to jail and pay big fines.
Well everyoneSep 21st 2007 12:52PM
Stop this foolishness of inventing these useless gadgets have these doctors put their heads together and find a cure for cancer and find it fast so I can smoke more cigarettes fill my body with all the cancer causing crap out there. Right now, I cannot do anything because everything one does causes cancer. Sex causes cancer, watch TV causes cancer, driving a car causes cancer even reading these comments about how everyone is a authority and the 2 called ChE_basedLogic and plain-simple causes cancer in just reading their comments.
Why would doctors want to find a cure for cancer? If they did, they would see their paychecks drop big time. Longer they do research the more they make, and yes they have big progress. Bet you anything and this is only my opinion if someone tells the researchers, the first person that find a cure in matter of months will be the riches person alive and would not have to share the credit with anyone, or all funding be cut off, how soon will they be a cure
FunnySep 21st 2007 1:03PM
Say kevinbeair hate to bust your little bubble, I for myself if it's recyclable I recycle. I still make fun of the greenie weenie tree huggers. As I stated before where I live those greenie weenie tree huggers after they leave the protest or whatever they get in to their Big gas guzzling SUV's, or old cars, vans that sprits out more blue, and black pollution smoke than most others around here. They go home to their big homes that made of trees that had to be cut down to build them with, let alone cut the trees down so they can clear the land for those big houses they had built.
cjSep 21st 2007 1:20PM
your focusing on the wrong thing here. The article i about the self cooling bottle, not the material they are made out of. There is no need for research on this method of self cooling as it a proven aspect of physics, its called phase change. They are applying incredibel ammounts of pressure inside the bottle, more than before obviously, and when the consumer opens it, it will release all of thise pressure at once, and cool the liquid. Very simple and safe.
FunnySep 21st 2007 1:31PM
Say kevinbeair, hate to bust your little bubble, I for myself if it's recyclable I recycle. I still make fun of the greenie weenie tree huggers. As I stated before where I live those greenie weenie tree huggers after they leave the protest or whatever they get in to their Big gas guzzling SUV's, or old cars, vans that sprits out more blue, and black pollution smoke than most others around here. They go home to their big homes that made of trees that had to be cut down to build them with, let alone cut the trees down so they can clear the land for those big houses they had built.
PIPESNWIRESSep 21st 2007 2:16PM
I MAKE SOLAR SYSTEMS. I DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT TREES OR POLOUTION, I DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT AND SAVE MONEY TOO. THE BROOK OUT SIDE MY WINDOW IS FED RIGHT OUT OF THE MOUNTAIN AND IS ALLWAYS 35 DEGREES AND FEEDS MY WALK-IN BOX AND CENTRAL AIR. NO OIL OR GAS BILLS.JUST ELECTRIC AS A BACK-UP. STOP WHINING.
Randall FinchSep 21st 2007 1:32PM
I remember when all sodas came in glass bottles, and some of them were returnable for deposit. Like Orange Crush, Coca Cola, 7Up, and Upper10 and Dr Pepper. Why can't we just go back to the glass bottle?
????Sep 21st 2007 1:38PM
CJ, does this mean they are going to be force to put warning labels on them contents under pressure?
Here comes a law suit.
Just like when a person buys a cup of hot coffee and spills on her she sues because the coffee was hot? Better yet when there been warnings out there for 40 pus years and warning labels in place that people still smokes and get cancer they sue because they got cancer? Two of the dumbest lawsuits in history.
becauseSep 21st 2007 2:01PM
They are working on cancer drugs. Drugs are just harder to develop... there could be drugs already developed, it just takes 10-20 years to get through the all the testing and to get approval from the FDA if they get that far. So for the chemists and doctors that are developing these drugs that could save your life, it would be nice to have self-cooling-soda bottles to drink from.
PIPESNWIRESSep 21st 2007 2:10PM
SOLAR COFEE MACHINE? WHO DO YOU SUE THEN?
JeanSep 21st 2007 11:18PM
I was drinking some self-warming soda when I read "because"'s comment...
Does anyone know how to get soda out of one's nose?
JeanSep 21st 2007 2:39PM
Hi PIPESENWIRES,
I make Solar Systems too. How do you like the one
Earth is in? Thanks for working to keep it nice
and livable.
Thanks again,
GOD
bektjaSep 21st 2007 4:56PM
what a lot of negativism and cynicism
we want things to be more convenient and save time..thus paper and plastics which can and should be recycled
if everyone does their part there would be less to complain about...
katSep 24th 2007 10:50AM
oh man. the use of the spiderman quote was sliiiick. :)
ne1scottJan 22nd 2008 3:12PM
I think we're missing the point here. Soda bottles aren't going away so replacing them with self-cooling bottles doesn't help or hurt the environment any more than what we already have.
Self cooling bottles would definitely be more convenient for us and prevent us from drinking warm soda/beer/water because of poor planning.
However, not having to cool soda bottles, beer, water, etc....will eliminate the need for most convenience store refrigeration units, ice makers, and styro-plastic cooler makers ...not to mention the impact on Bars, resturaunts, and homes.....these will GREATLY help the environment and will reduce the electricity needs of the public....thus reducing the need for more power plants....
So cold drinks in self cooling bottles truly have the ability to impact the environment and our convenience at the same time since the bottles will number in the billions per year.