Lower Your Refrigeration Costs by Recycling the Cold!

Lifehacker explained how to use cold air from the environment to chill items in your refrigerator, effectively reducing power consumption. Very cool! (no pun intended).

It would seem obvious that you can pump ambient in to cool your refrigerator but difficulties arise in piping air and modifying the refrigerator body, among other issues. This article makes a simple suggestion. Take buckets and pails full of ice from outside and pack it inside an unplugged refrigerator. The refrigerator is already insulated enough to largely prevent melting. I mean a refrigerator and a cooler are pretty much the same thing, just a different scale.

So, save yourself some money and help clear the streets of slippery ice. Double commendation for being a good samaritan.

 

Comments

[Buy Medieval Clothing]

I never expected this could be possible. Thank you for sharing this on your post. I will be doing this then.

[Train Your Dog]

yes i've heard this already and this is possible, as the bible says: "all things are possible" ;-)

cheers!

[Easy Money]

Nice post. Good! spreading ways to conserve energy. Keep up the good work!

[platform beds]

I will agree to Easy. This is a great post. Spreading ideas like this is so good news. I will going to show this to all my friends and I am sure they will going to spread this message to everyone.

[Gerry]

Hey, if I have to go out and freeze buckets of water why not just keep the refrigerator outside.

[compactors]

I've done this method before especially during summer seasons and I'll tell you it greatly reduce the cost of my electric bill. Thanks for reposting this to help everyone.

[plumbing]

I have read this article or this method of recycling before. I try it and it works. But that's many years ago. I want to try it again now, thanks for posting it again. Great!

[plumbing supplies]

Really? Is it really effective? By just recycling the cold we can lower our refrigeration costs. That's great. Thanks for posting.

[party bags]

Is there any ways on how we can lower our refrigeration costs?