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RE: (ET) Fridge design.
- Subject: RE: (ET) Fridge design.
- From: Larry Elie <lelie ford com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:41:10 -0500
- Sender: owner-elec-trak cosmos5 phy tufts edu
Dan, in reply to Max wrote...
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From: Daystar Energy Services[SMTP:daniel laser net]
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 9:03 PM
To: Max Hall
Cc: ET discussion list
Subject: Re: (ET) Fridge design.
Max Hall wrote:
> But isn't goddam funny to have a big box (the house) that we burn energy
> to
> keep warm from the ambient (outdoor) temp, and inside it, we put a little
> box (the fridge) that we burn energy to keep cold against the ambient
> (indoor) temp? Hah! I say. Hah HAH hah!
But, here's where it really gets goofy. Take a box designed to always
stay cold relative to it's environment. Install it's heat expelling
coils and heat producing motor and compressor BELOW the box, so the
waste heat must rise up and around the box that's designed to be cold.
Never let physics stand in the way
Dan
Look at early 'fridges. Condenser on top. Not well protected. Gathers
dust. Looks pretty bad. Top heavy
(when empty). So you bite the bullet and put it on the bottom, and eat
the extra energy. The differences aren't
that huge anyway.
But in the summer in an air conditioned house? Well, there it is self
defeating. I toyed with putting a cold
water (condensing and draining) loop around a freezer condenser (I have a
ground-water source heat pump,
and tons of both hot and 33 deg. F water) but decided it really isn't
worth the trouble. 'Course, my hot-tub
and pool are both heated free by my air condoning already.... in the
summer that is.
Larry Elie