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• deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Power companies hate this one trick

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• anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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 ⁨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!

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    • 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.

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