[Greenbuilding] Refrigerator cabinet?

[Speireag Alden]

On 2007, Dec 13, at 08:29, Georgette deFriesse wrote:

> I had emailed Bob English and he had this to say to me:
>
> "I think if you want to build an
> icebox you should consider building one that holds the water in  
> something
> like big inner tubes and that freezes by opening a door to the  
> outside.
> You'd have to figure out some way of insulating the food storage
> compartment from the outside temperatures when it's really cold.   
> I'm suggesting this idea because it would be cheap and easy to  
> build and would work better than
> a refrigerant system like I have."

     Thank you!

     Laren Corie's innovation, for containing the water, is to use 2- 
liter soda bottles.  I think that's brilliant; the space between them  
permits air flow for heat exchange, they stay sealed when frozen if  
you leave a little air at the top because they're built strong, and  
if one leaks it's a simple matter to replace it and recycle the old  
one.  I won't be using big inner tubes.

> So that's the voice of experience. His icebox is also very large: 8' X
> 8' which is HUGE for someone planning on building a very small house.

     Yeah, that's part of why mine is going to be in an exterior wall  
and stick into the greenhouse a bit.

-Speireag.