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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That’s a great thing to do with the Butter dish - unless the pantry is on the west side of the house and it is 105 degrees outside. (And trying not to turn on the air conditioner..)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Kathy Cochran<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Clarke Olsen<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 23, 2012 2:23 PM<br><b>To:</b> Green Building<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Greenbuilding] Re-fridgidasion<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It's true! A repressed memory: I too once had a fridge with a heater in the butta compartment! <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>At the time. I found it hard to believe, but there it was. Now I leave the butter dish in the pantry.<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Clarke Olsen<br><a href="http://clarkeolsendesign.com">clarkeolsendesign.com</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Jul 22, 2012, at 4:56 PM, Reuben Deumling wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Clarke Olsen <<a href="mailto:colsen@fairpoint.net" target="_blank">colsen@fairpoint.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal>The culprit may be frost free. This involves heaters to melt frost inside the fridge.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>And, they have gotten bigger.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>And the freezer section is colder. And bigger.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>And don't get me started on the ice makers.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Nope. Though the frost free function did consume more electricity than the manual defrost that preceded it, it is not the chief culprit. The culprit are the peculiar Cold War flights of fancy that had US opinion makers in the sixties measuring our ideological superiority by the number of kWh we consumed per capita in the US. The fact that we we then (1962) consumed 8x more than the Soviets was not good enough, because the gap was shrinking. The captains of industry decided they could help. So besides all electric houses (so-called Medallion Homes, very similar in concept to today's Energy Star Homes) we got refrigerators which compared to the previous models had most of the insulation taken out, the wall thickness shrunk, cheap compressors in place of the heavy copper monsters, and lots of heaters distributed throughout the interior. <br><br>My favorite example of this particular foolishness <span class=il>is the early seventies fridge with four</span> (<span class=il>4</span>) different <span class=il>heaters</span>. Not <span class=il>four</span> units performing the same function; no, <span class=il>four</span> <span class=il>heaters</span> all serving different functions inside the <span class=il>fridge</span>. (1) anti sweat heater around the door; (2) defrost <span class=il>heater</span> in freezer compartment; (3) <span class=il>butter</span> compartment warmer in door; (<span class=il>4</span>) my favorite: a <span class=il>heater</span> to keep the meat from freezing. In this particular <span class=il>fridge</span> the designers decided not to put the special meat compartment at the bottom of the <span class=il>fridge</span> where the cold might be expected to collect (so to speak), but in the freezer. But of course, the freezer is much too cold for the temperature at which we are led to believe meat we don't want to freeze should be kept. So to achieve these slightly colder than regular <span class=il>fridge</span> temps, they put a special <span class=il>heater</span> in the portion of the freezer intended for keeping meat.<br> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Greenbuilding mailing list<br>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br><a href="mailto:Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org">Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br><a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=1 width="100%" noshade style='color:#A0A0A0' align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>No virus found in this message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 2012.0.2197 / Virus Database: 2437/5149 - Release Date: 07/23/12<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>