Re: (ET) Fridge design.

["Pieter Litchfield" <plitch ibm net>]

Get a life!  I was a fireman in metropolitan southern CT when an ice storm
knocked out power for a few days on cold Feb., and panic stricken
suburbanites called wanting to know how to save the food in the fridge!
Just shoot me.....

I occasionally use an old farmhouse that has a doublesided "bin" 
passthrough
between the back poarch and the kitchen.  It allowed stove wood to be 
loaded
from outside and retrieved from the inside through a hinged bench seat so
that dirt and bark and drafts were kept down.  Still makes a great place to
keep big stuff like the leftover turkey carcass cold and away from cats!

Easiest - get your old reliable styrofoam cooler, keep it inside, load it
with food, make ice outside, bring it in, put it in the cooler (in zipo 
lock
bags).  In fact, why not just put ice in the lower drawers (vegtable
crispers) of you 'fridge??  Jeez you guys really want to make this far more
difficult than it has to be.


-----Original Message-----
From: Max Hall <maxo iname com>
To: ET discussion list <elec-trak cosmos5 phy tufts edu>
Date: Friday, January 29, 1999 12:39 AM
Subject: (ET) Fridge design.


>>> Wouldn't putting the fridge outside during an ice storm
>>> be a more energy efficient way to keep your milk cold?
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>>> ...just a thought from the frigid california coast...
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>>If you mean unload the fridge, disconnect the ice maker, bounce a couple
>>of hundred pounds of appliance down the ice covered stairs, level it,
>>plug it in and reload it, then listen to my wife explain what she likes
>>best about going outside to get milk for her coffee. Nope, I'll spend
>>the extra electrons.
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>Dan's right: even though it gets f'ing cold up here, it's not easy to set
>that Fridge on the porch... when it gets cold.
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>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!
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>Fortunately, any inefficiency in the fridge's operation winds up as heat 
>in
>your house, so for a change you really do get something for your spent
>electrons! How often can you say that about so-called "waste" heat? Verges
>on a free lunch.
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>-Max, who won't store hot dogs in the snowbank anymore not since....
>nevermind.
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