More floor space per storage volume is why. Most dwellings in urban and some suburban areas are area constrained for everything, especially appliances, and unable to use chest type freezers my grandparents had to keep loads of venison and catfish in their lake house. It'd also be great™ if freezers used Vacuum Insulation Panels (VIPs).
Chest Fridge (2009)
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#82Feel free to vote this into oblivion for irrelevance, it really is irrelevant. However, I've seen this blog show up here a few times and every time I initially read it as mrbeast.net and groan internally.
Re: Chest Fridge (2009)
#83Though I also have a home chest freezer in the garage, I take this approach to my camper van setup as well. I have a converted (vintage) van, which means it wasn’t intended as a camper, and part of my build-out strategy has been to use removable things that also serve me at home in the event of an emergency or an expansion need, things like a solar panel, LiPo battery, fridge/freezer, cooktop, and space heater.
The fridge is a Dometic CFX 35 which opens at the top and tends to allow for getting at things without losing a lot of cooling. At first, it was also nice to be able to set things on it or use it as a seat (horizontal surfaces are the biggest hard-to-find in a camper van) but that became annoying when needing snacks or other quick access. So I recently built a small cabinet with a pull-out slider on which the fridge lives. Then, I always have the top storage but don’t need to move anything to get at the fridge, but can also briefly use the fridge as a footrest or similar.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Now that is the coolest fridge I've ever seen. Found a video of it in action (yes, featuring the same dad joke all over the comments but that is not stopping me): https://youtu.be/RoGuvvzHY1A?t=416 That entire place is mind-bending.
Mind-bending indeed, but looks pretty impractical. In an ordinary fridge, if your egg carton is a bit out of place, your door may not close properly. In this one, you're going to have liquid omelette slathered all over the place, and how do you even clean the bottom of that thing?
Who, apart from Americans, puts eggs into the fridge?
Re: Chest Fridge (2009)
#85Ohhh the links at the bottom of this guys site are wild and good reading. https://thiaoouba.com/ Please note I am disputing his science on the efficacy of a vertical fridge.
Glad someone else notice this! That was a wild rabbit hole I just went down and I only scratched the surface.
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#86I read this back in 2009, happy to see it's still on the internet. Obviously with today's electricity prices it would use more than $5 per year but even doubled it is extremely cheap. My issue with the concept is space and convenience. My upright fridge is about this size but it would take up too much space in my kitchen on its side. Worse again that you can't keep anything on top because that's where the door is. Bu…
There's an easy solution for the chest freezer, I've been using IKEA recycling bins, the plastic is cold proof, see: https://youtu.be/ydbsVS5rbSM?is=FVhiLHx4Uh94nb0k
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mind-bending indeed, but looks pretty impractical. In an ordinary fridge, if your egg carton is a bit out of place, your door may not close properly. In this one, you're going to have liquid omelette slathered all over the place, and how do you even clean the bottom of that thing?
Who, apart from Americans, puts eggs into the fridge?
Any country where eggs are industrially washed before showing up in grocery stores.
Their protective coating (called the bloom, I believe?) goes away when that happens, and they become susceptible to salmonella when they stay at room temperature.
Re: Chest Fridge (2009)
#88This reminds me of the Technology Connections fridge rant video. Similar arguments all around, the dumping effect of cold out of a vertical fridge is pretty crazy to watch with a thermal camera. https://youtube.com/watch?v=CGAhWgkKlHI
Couldn't find that in the 26 minute video. But for a total energy cost of $70 per year, why is this of interest to anyone?
Some of us live off-grid. Some of us live on-grid but the grid is unstable (or we think it may become unstable in the future). Some of us do not have the same time/effort versus money tradeoffs that you do. Some of us want to reduce our emissions more than others. Some of us just really enjoy optimizing.
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#89Practical tips from a UFO cultist
Absolutely sound arguments for more efficient refrigeration, but I am way more interested in the bizarre context of the other content.
I love that the site navigation includes Sustainability, Solar House, Re-forest, Wildlife, then casually, Spacecraft! Ooookay, here we go.
He tells of his friend, Michael, who rode on a visiting spacecraft of beings from the biblical planet of Thiaoouba to see their home world and help humanity achieve spiritual enlightenment. He wrote a book of his experience and no scientist has been able disprove a single sentence in it.
Also it’s apparently a good idea to use a more efficient refrigerator or else we will destroy our planet with greenhouse gases before we can achieve transcendence.
“Threat ? The ultimate danger to our civilization comes from overheating the Earth's heat-generating interior due to the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere, which traps the planet's internal heat. This process is slow, but its eventual consequences are violent and irreversible. The very existence of Earth is at stake. There will be no second chance if people on Earth continue to ignore the advice...”
Edit: I’m actually kind of into the Bioresonant t-shirt. It’d be good for a Phish show.
Re: Chest Fridge (2009)
#90I did this, with a regular chest freezer and a thermostat. It used hardly any energy, but it was hard to clean and died after about five years.