Hi Vaughn;

Vaughn Simon wrote:

"Mike Hartigan" wrote:

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?

Of course it does. If the refrigerator is consuming
an average of 500W it delivers an average of 500W.
That's just basic physics.

There is a "cool" exception, but this was not included
in the original question.

During the heating season take liquid tap water in a
container, freeze it in the freezer, and throw the
resultant ice out doors.

In addition to the power needed to run the
refrigerator you will have extracted some of the heat
in the water.

Cool huh!

My head hurts.

Vaughn

Duane

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