I reuse 2-liter bottles and fill them with water and leave them outside to freeze. Then I rotate those with melting ones left in the fridge for 2-3 days. While doing this last year, I unplugged the fridge for 2 weeks and it stayed between 42-46F. I'm not the kind of person to leave food in a fridge for more than a week anyway, although most fridges I see are filled with bottles and containers of stuff to be used over weeks or months, which this technique would not be great for (if you were unplugging.) If I had the opportunity to have my fridge outside in the winter, and inside in the summer, I would try that. I heard that once upon a time people had fridges that only used ice and no electricity - imagine that! :D
-Andy [email protected] wrote: > Years ago I read about Amory Lovins setting up his fridge so it would vent > heat outdoors in summer and, in winter, using outdoor air for cooling > whenever the temp diff was propitious. Anybody doing that? Should be done by > architects in designing a house. > Andrejs > _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
