"Mike Hartigan" wrote in message
.net...
If you have a refrigerator that consumes 500 watts
of electricity and it runs continuously, it's producing exactly the
same amount of heat as five 100 watt light bulbs.

Not sure that is 100% true. There is lots of waste heat, but the
refrigeration system is expending energy pumping heat out of the refrigerated
area, just so it can gradually be absorbed back from your heated home. At the
end of the day, does all of the energy that the refrigerator uses really show up
as waste heat in the room?

My head hurts.

Vaughn