[Greenbuilding] Re-fridgeration

Clarke Olsen colsen at fairpoint.net
Sun Jul 22 15:43:18 CDT 2012


The culprit may be frost free. This involves heaters to melt frost inside the fridge.
And, they have gotten bigger.
And the freezer section is colder. And bigger.
And don't get me started on the ice makers.

Clarke Olsen
clarkeolsendesign.com
373 route 203
Spencertown, NY 12165 
USA
518-392-4640
colsen at taconic.net




On Jul 22, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Reuben Deumling wrote:

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> 
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Peter Kidd <peterkidd at shaw.ca> wrote:
> ... Without the very impressive efficiency gains in appliances, our comparatively slowly rising household energy consumption would have been through the roof.
> 
> That is a hypothetical. We don't know--and may not be able to figure out--whether that is true. The fact is that in the 1930s and 40s many of our (US) household appliances were very efficient: water heaters, refrigerators, kitchen stoves, toilets, etc. Why they subsequently ran off the rails and into wastefulness is an interesting story, but one that is rarely told because it upsets the tidy narrative about how clever experts introduced energy efficiency into our lives and made everything better. Per capita we use several times as much electricity for domestic refrigeration in the US today than in the late fifties when saturation of refrigerators had risen to within shouting distance of today: 97%. 
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