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Newly Enlightened
I'm with PCC - seems to me the refrigerator was a massive paradigm-shift in the transport and storage of food, which transformed the global economy. And not only food - I was reading about the super-cooling of natural gas, to ship it around the world, changing the shape of energy-supply for decades to come. And would blood transfusions be practical without refrigeration? How many drugs and vaccines need to be kept cool? And, dammit, there's cold beer and ice-cream...