crashsite said:am I missing some major concept in physics?
Hero999 said:We have our fridges up against a blind wall and they seem to work alright.
Where do you live?
We don't have very hot summers in the UK so I suppose that's why we don't have this sort of problem.
Perhaps you should consider moving your fridge to an out house or garrage where you can leave plenty of room for ventillation.
felis said:The only heat that you'd be able to add this way is the heat generated by the refrigerator itself. Imagine opening refrigerator door and leaving it this way for a while - your kitchen will heat up, but just a little, since even old refrigerators were quite effective.
crashsite said:I'm sure, "outhouse" has a less colorful connotation in other parts of the world than here in the US. But, putting that aside, the idea of having to run out to some out building to fetch refrigerated food (while perhaps a good diet plan), does not appeal to me.
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3v0 said:Outdoor appliances are somewhat common in areas with mild winters. I have a refrigerator on my covered rear deck. In the summer it does not add to the air conditioning load and in the winter it seldom runs. I do not have the ice maker hooked up.
Nigel Goodwin said:Word of warning! - don't do that with a fridge/freezer that has a single compressor. They use a single thermostat in the fridge section, and because it's in a cold environment it never turns ON, and the freezer part thaws.
It's common here to have them in garages, and come the winter the freezer thaws out!
crashsite said:Well, it just seems like a solution waiting some famous "expert" to figure it out and get the credit for the idea.
I'm sure, "outhouse" has a less colorful connotation in other parts of the world than here in the US. But, putting that aside, the idea of having to run out to some out building to fetch refrigerated food (while perhaps a good diet plan), does not appeal to me.
I live in Oregon (pretty colse to the 45th parallel). In fact, I used to live in Salem and the 45th parallel runs right through the north end of the town.
Super_voip said:I've always wondered why a fan wasn't placed in parallel with the compressor motor similar to the commercial units. The energy transfer fridge to air would have to many times greater.
Nigel Goodwin said:I think he means to more rapidly remove the heat from the radiator at the rear, just as you would with a fan cooled heatsink.
Oznog said:Well first off a fridge doesn't take all that much power and shouldn't be really be such a load on the house's A/C. In fact, your TV set or computer takes a lot more, so you might as well be asking why not vent these outside.
You can consider a refrigerator located inside an air-conditioned area to be part of a two-stage heat pump. The refrigerator could be optimized to operate at a constant temperature differential.A fridge is a heat pump, it's pumping heat out of the food and in to the room - and an efficient heat pump will provide considerably more heat than the energy it consumes.
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