An indoor refrigerator in the winter is essentially a resistive heater. It’s not nearly as good as a heat pump, but may be better for the environment that burning gas, depending on the local electricity mix.
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totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 hours agoIn his defense, he is doing his best to save the climate by keeping his refrigerator outside in the Winter!
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
That is an excellent point that I had not considered—it might actually be more efficient to make use of the heat in your food to heat your home than to pump it outside!
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
That’s not my main point as I don’t think the heat capacity of food is so important over the long term.
I mean, that the inevitable inefficiency of the fridge in a closed system, is no different, that any other device consuming the same amount of energy, as it all ends as waste heat.
deHaga@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
Power companies hate this one trick