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Too mind-fogged to help you out here..

just wanted to point ou his most famous patent, the Einstein-Szilard fridge

(considerably less famous than the Einstein-Szilard letter, so I feel there's another argument for or against technocracy right there)

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Because of concerns how toxic ammonia was, and how common leaks. Turned out to be useful many decades later when they were designing the cold chain for the H Bomb before solid duterium/lithium came along.