Many older houses in Finland have a kitchen closet connected to the exterior for this purpose. Modern apartments have abandoned the procedure, Perhaps architecture is simpler and more efficient without it.

IMO, it evens out, the heat generated/moved by the refrigerator reduces heat needed from ones normal heating plant.

It woild take some doing to make an outside assisted refigerator, but not that hard.

Put the fridge in the garage / outhouse.

classicsat is right. It would make more sense to move your fridge to the garage in summer instead of winter because it's just heating your house and fighting the AC. Although, then it would stress your fridge more and you'd have to buy a new one sooner than otherwise necessary. <tg>

it's an interesting idea but today it is mid Jan and in the 50's on the east coast. On the west coast, it is in the teens when typically in the 50's. Not sure if the weather is going to cooperate with this one...

I saw a documentary about a city (sorry I can't remember where) where air conditioning was provided as a public service by circulating water out into the ocean and back because even on hot days the deep water stays cold. I think it was also used to cool normal tapwater. I'm guessing it was done someplace very hot.

This idea is so simple and yet so clever. I remember my grandparents using their cellar, or the cold small room in the back of the house to keep food edible during hot summers, long before refrigerators became popular and affordable. I tried using a tip I found on a website, and move my whirlpool refrigerator in the garage during the summer to reduce the heat it produced in my kitchen. This seemed like a good idea at first, but after barely two months of burning hot weather, it broke down, and I had to go around town looking for whirlpool parts and for an appliance man that wouldn't rip me off. So from now on, I'll keep the fridge in the house, no matter how hot it gets.

We keep thinking up this same idea repeatedly:http://www.whynot.net/ideas/212