[Greenbuilding] Greenbuilding Digest, Vol 4, Issue 5

[Reuben Deumling]

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Ross Elliott <relliott at homesol.ca> wrote:

> Reuben, why are you ripping open a new freezer? It probably uses less
> energy
> than your TV;
>
I don't have a TV.


> During air conditioning season, if you have one, you lose not only the
> dollar value of
> the waste heat but also pay to remove it with the air conditioner, although
> at very high SEERs. So again the dollars wasted are almost insignificant.
>
I don't have an air conditioner, or an air conditioning season, whatever
that is. I had a professor once who said an air conditioner (the kind built
around a refrigeration cycle) was a sign of poor building design.

>
> I'm not saying don't do it...
> But there may be other places you can apply your energy towards that would
> give you a better return than cracking open the sides of the freezer, in my
> opinion.
>
I can't think of one, frankly. My reply to Kathy Cochran this afternoon may
illustrate my predicament.

>
> It IS rather baffling, though, why most fridges and freezers allow their
> coils to "reheat" the box they're trying to cool because they're hidden
> inside the sheet metal shell for protection; coils should be fully exposed
> like they used to be.
>
Yes.
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