[Greenbuilding] now on to fridges....

[Amy Bauman]

I LOVE that idea!

It updates the old icebox idea and incorporates Ben's concern about opening
the door to go outside.

Kat - when you build it (and we'll all be listening in), you'd essentially
put super insulation in the door to the icebox, right?

The main thing that I love about the idea is that it gets the refrigerator
out of the main floor space of the kitchen.  one thing we'd need to solve is
how to move the function, once built, without a major HVAC budget.

I really think you're on to something here

Amy Bauman
greenGoat

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[mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at listserv.repp.org]On Behalf Of Kat
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 10:04 PM
To: prattb at uwstout.edu; Greenbuilding
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] now on to fridges....


(snip)
... insulated under-counter box (perhaps two large drawers,
stacked; small freezer on the bottom and fridge on the top) on an
outside kitchen wall and ditch the fridge.  I'm thinking maybe a small
heat pump-y thing that would go on the outside of the house in warm
weather and gets moved to the inside in cold weather?  Then in winter
there's a hole in the outside wall for cold air to come in.  Though it
doesn't stay really consistently cold here in Portland in the
wintertime.  I don't know if the hole would be a good idea.  I suppose
you could have two small heat pump-y things, one on the outside and one
on the inside, and put some sort of switch in that flips power from one
to the other depending on temperatures?