Why consider 12v fridge for boondocking?

Skibane wrote:

JRscooby wrote:
For the 15+ years I have been reading the net about RVs there is rarely a week that somebody doesn't post something about their absorption fridge not working as well as expected.

That's understandable, considering that probably 99+ percent of all RVs are still equipped with them.

When you have a lot of something, you also tend to have a lot of reports about problems with it.

That is true. And it is also true that they can work trouble free. (Just before I was born, ('49) Dad bought a used absorption fridge. In '58 it was put in basement of new house, because we got new fridge. That new fridge has been replaced several times. Sometime when I was in service, that absorption fridge was moved to a lake cabin that was past the end of power lines. By 2010, power was at the cabin, but that old fridge was on the porch, full of cold drinks. When they leave the cabin, any food not to be carried home is put in the old fridge incase power goes out.)
But that does not mean the modern technology is not better. But camping I prefer to use old tech for many things. (Even at home, if I decide to bake something in the summer I will light some charcoal, grab a DO) But many people take modern tech RVing with them. Nobody is wrong, IMHO.
Now with all the talk of how great solar is while camping, often by the same class of people that rant about asking people to use it at home kinda baffles me. And for home use, I have often wondered about concentrating the heat, use that to replace flame in a absorption operated AC unit for homes and businesses.