been thinking about me fridge, how to make it more efficent, particularly in winter, as we have the fire going in the kitchen

how might I bring some of the chill outside in, an put it in my fridge.

transition said:

been thinking about me fridge, how to make it more efficent, particularly in winter, as we have the fire going in the kitchen

how might I bring some of the chill outside in, an put it in my fridge.

Put the fridge on the verandah.

transition said:

been thinking about me fridge, how to make it more efficent, particularly in winter, as we have the fire going in the kitchen

how might I bring some of the chill outside in, an put it in my fridge.

Put the fridge outside…

>Put the fridge on the verandah

did thought about that, bit inconvenient

>Put the fridge outside…

put it in someone elses fridge?

Relocate your fridge to Alaska, and pay an agent there to post your food to you in insulated containers with ice packs.

Bubblecar said:

Relocate your fridge to Alaska, and pay an agent there to post your food to you in insulated containers with ice packs.

Duct cold, outside air over the heat exchanger.

transition said:

been thinking about me fridge, how to make it more efficient, particularly in winter, as we have the fire going in the kitchen

how might I bring some of the chill outside in, an put it in my fridge.

There’s a Dilbert cartoon about how to do this, pity I can’t find it on the web.

Have you considered that the heat generated by the refrigerator heats the kitchen, making your fire a more efficient heating device? Being a heat-pump, the refrigerator actually heats your kitchen more efficiently than the fire. (LOL, not really).

The heat transfer coils are at the back of the refrigerator, so the best way to reduce refrigerator energy consumption would be a hood over the coils that connects up to the roof space, just like the range hood over the stove. You wouldn’t even need a fan because it would be driven by thermal convection, provided the duct was wide and thin to allow upflow of hot air and downflow of cold air at the same time.

Magnetic fridge eliminates gases, drastically reduces energy use

The days of the rackety, energy-gobbling refrigerator may be numbered with the advent of more efficient systems that cool with the use of magnets. The idea has been around almost as long as your standard gas-compression fridge, but it hasn’t yet been viable for the household and commercial markets. Now, Cooltech Applications has launched the first magnetic refrigeration system (MRS) for commercial use.

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CrazyNeutrino said:

Magnetic fridge eliminates gases, drastically reduces energy use

The days of the rackety, energy-gobbling refrigerator may be numbered with the advent of more efficient systems that cool with the use of magnets. The idea has been around almost as long as your standard gas-compression fridge, but it hasn’t yet been viable for the household and commercial markets. Now, Cooltech Applications has launched the first magnetic refrigeration system (MRS) for commercial use.

more…

I clicked on the link & got a content security notice.

Its gizmag

might be one of the ads

Don’t have an empty fridge. Bottles of water are good for thermal mass. Or so I have been told.

When you say “more efficient” do you mean you want it to use less power?

dv said:

When you say “more efficient” do you mean you want it to use less power?

I assume so.

Tamb said:

Bubblecar said:

Relocate your fridge to Alaska, and pay an agent there to post your food to you in insulated containers with ice packs.

Duct cold, outside air over the heat exchanger.

yeah somethin’ like that was thinkin’, some timber boxwork ‘round’n vents to aid convection. Doesn’t have an exposed condenser, it’s in the walls’n loses heat through the metal walls.