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Energy Saving Refrigerator

Category: Home Appliances
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My car has a small fan that pushes inside the car warm air from the engine during cold seasons after parking the car. Why not the same concept pushing cold air into a refrigerator through a pipe that goes outside the house during the winter. The small fan with a thermostat activated gate would open or close the access to the outside keeping the temperature inside the refrigerator constant. If the temperature begins to rise, the motor would activate the compressor as backup power.

joseph031, Dec 05 2003

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You would add cold air, presumably with filter, into an environment that is already cold? Would only have benefit if the refridgerator was not kept in an external environment. Fridges use most of their yearly power consumption when the ambient temperature is high: Not when it is cold: During winter you can turn the fridge off, put it outside and it will function with only slightly less power consumption than it does when switched on in a cold utility.

railenvironment, Dec 07 2003