By Walt Hickey Have an excellent weekend! Ice Cream Unilever is a titan of the ice cream industry, and owns most of the 3 million chest freezers in corner stores, gas stations and bodegas that hawk its wares, which include Ben & Jerry’s and Magnum. The energy to power those freezers is estimated to account for 10 percent of Unilever’s greenhouse gas footprint, and right now the company is investigating ways to reformulate its ice cream to survive at 10 degrees Fahrenheit rather than the industry standard of 32 below freezing. If it works, and the freezers only need to be kept at 10 degrees, that’d cut 20 percent to 30 percent of energy use. The R&D involved is intense; how to get ice cream to maintain structural integrity and not just slide off sticks or make cones all soggy is a complicated quest.
Surely you meant 10 degrees Celsius? That’s the scale they use in London, where the article was from, and in that scale freezing is zero, and 10° is significantly warmer. In Fahrenheit, freezing is 32°, so 10° would be colder, not warmer.
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Surely you meant 10 degrees Celsius? That’s the scale they use in London, where the article was from, and in that scale freezing is zero, and 10° is significantly warmer. In Fahrenheit, freezing is 32°, so 10° would be colder, not warmer.
The ice cream story is making me think of General Ripper in Doctor Strangelove worried they were going to