06-28-2013, 11:45 AM
(06-28-2013, 10:10 AM)radtech497 Wrote: If the technology has only a very limited market appeal, it is likely to remain a niche product at best and so remain relatively rare and expensive. I find it difficult to imagine the need for a domestic cooler that can refrigerate items down to one Kelvin.
If molecular manufacturing is available to individuals, something like a cryocooler would only be rare unless people didn't want to make them--which seems unlikely in a future where people grow their own starships, or they are starships.