Echelon recently announced a number of new initiatives, such as McDonald's use of LonWorks to network its restaurant kitchen equipment, a trial in the U.K. to remotely control and monitor streetlights, and a partnership with EnerNOC to control supermarket lighting, refrigeration and air conditioning units.

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Grimsby is dominated by fishing and the food industry, with its colleges enjoying a world-wide reputation for their food and refrigeration courses.

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Francis Bacon, a British scientist and essayist, was an early victim of the struggle to develop refrigeration technology: he died in 1626 after eating some chicken that he had stuffed with snow as part of an experiment.

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