1. Cold is essential to life

Today and tomorrow, it's impossible to imagine doing without the cold:

• for food safety reasons: production, transport, distribution and consumption of many food products;

• for health: development and preservation of medicines, tissues, organs, vaccines, medical treatments, surgical operations;

• for the preservation of species and biodiversity;

• to create and improve living, working, transport, leisure and travel conditions;

• for defense and research technologies: satellites, space probes, etc;

• for processes in virtually all industries: plastics, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, metals, nanotechnologies;

• for energy production: power plant cooling, natural...