The new part is that the press likes stories about inventions that could supposedly save millions of lives. Someone proposed something very similar to store vac

The new part is that the press likes stories about inventions that could supposedly save millions of lives. Someone proposed something very similar to store vaccines in the third world in a TED talk back in 2007, inspired by the same 1930s refrigeration device, and it also got a load of news coverage before vanishing without a trace: http://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grosser_and_his_sustainable_fridge http://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grosser_and_his_sustainable_fr...