[Eco] Re: Fridges

[Luisa]

Hello Chris,

  This is a great idea! Do you have one of these chest 
fridges? If so, how do you like it? What do you keep in it? 
Is it practical?

  As you know, I am looking to replace my fridge for 
something environmentally friendly. So, I wonder how one 
would arrange stuff inside so that you can easily get things 
as you are cooking. I am sure something like a jewel-box 
system could be constructed...

 And then, how can you take advantage of that horizontal 
plane? I am thinking about space optimization, since I live 
in a really small house.

  I think it is great for anyone who has the space for a 
chest fridge! Something like that could easily replace all 
those "second" refrigerators people have in the garage filled 
with soda, beer, ice cream, and other frozen foods that can 
easily be stacked and retrieved. How many of us has a second 
refrigerator like those? Or, do you know someone that does? 
Can we change to the chest fridge? Ask our friends?

Thanks for sharing, I hope there will be lots of conversions 
going on!

Luisa
the Green Fairy
¡Ping!


--On 2/17/07 7:40 AM +0900 
madlab.rabbit.krishaven at spamgourmet.com wrote:

> Hi EcoRabbits,
>
> I just read the new EcoFluxx Foundation update and I have a
> link regarding fridges:
>
> http://mtbest.net/chest_fridge.html
>
> This is a converted chest freezer;
>
> "My chest fridge (Vestfrost freezer turned into a fridge)
> consumes about 0.1 kWh a day. It works only about 2 minutes
> per hour. At all other times it is perfectly quiet and
> consumes no power whatsoever. My wind/solar system
> batteries and power-sensing inverter simply love it."
>
> The reason why this is so efficient is that when you open a
> normal vertical fridge, all the cold falls out.  By having
> a door on the top, you lose very little cold when you open
> it.  And the conversion is as simple as a third-party
> thermostat that switches the freezer off at the wall at a
> higher temperature than it would normally turn itself off
> at.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Chris (Krisjohn) Johnson.
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