Hi Group, I just read a 80's book about how to reduce energy and cost of cooling your home. I had to wait until the last 3rd of the book before it said how....
It seems we're on to some good ideas here........ Perhaps a hybrid of sorts. A solar icemaker does work but then you have to be there to put the ice into the...
Hello. I will search the old messages but I was wondering about the lowest power surge for refrigerators so I can keep a small offgrid power system and I...
i see constant posts of the dangers of ammonia, and although the warning are legion and dire, but i have never read of a real person actually injured by...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the RefrigeratorAlternatives group. File...
Try turning it upside down for a day. Doug Re: Gas Refrigerator Posted by: "Jennifer Roberts" smurf_goddess@... twink_roberts Wed Dec 6, 2006 9:21 am...
This is probably a long shot, but does anyone in the group know where we could get a used gas refrigerator in central Florida? We've been looking for months...
Tjis has become doubly important to me this week. I got the word from a specialist that my back can't be fixed. Trying to do it, would cause serious problems...
DH and I went to an estate sale held in an older house in a so-far- ungentrified part of San Francisco. There was a tall, narrow cupboard in the kitchen that...
Lots of interesting ideas here on both refrigeration and cooling. Definitely go to the site to get the pictures and diagrams. All I can cut-n-paste in is the...
Hi, I'm new to the group. Has anyone ever considered driving a fridge compressor with compressed air? This air could be compressed by a wind turbine or steam...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/22/opinion/22hoffman.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin NOVEMBER is a busy time for city restaurants. Urban dwellers close up their...
It uses Vacuum Tube Solar cllectors to heat the ammonia absorption boilers instead of propane or natural gas. I have posted a JPEG detail in the Filesection at...
A friend of mine wanted to warm hos house with wind energy. He put up a vertical wind turbine to power a compressor. He used the heat that emanated from the...
Hello, All. I was a member of this group a while back. My name is Rose, I'm 58, I live in rural upstate New York, Zone 5. We already live very simply - no...
Better than sims, is to get on a gardening/homesteading forum, ask questions, lurk, you`ll learn a lot. Doug Re: New to group / Waving to a fellow NYer Posted...
Hi Nolan, Here's what I can share on the subject.... In the Spokane area (Post Falls, actually), there's a company called "Foam-Molders", which fabricates...
I believe this will be of interest to fellow Refrigeration Alternatives listers. The book (The Emperor's New Hydrogen Economy) I began researching and writing...
I would like to take this opportunity to wish every veteran in this country a Happy Veteran's day.Some of you who are in more than one group with me will see...
The windup radio we have has stood up pretty well. I believe we got it through Lehmans catalog. And when I wind it, I'm not very gentle. I'm looking at it...
are they still some of the most energy eff. I used to hear more about them. I know they were expensive 10 years ago. I was looking to buy one of the 19cf r/f...
It was recently mentioned that the main thermal energy loss is through the door seals of frig's and/or freezers. So what's a better thermal design for the...
From: "sueb1997"; <sueb1997@...> ... Hi Sue; Actually, there is not very much energy cost for the door being opened, which usually only totals about three...
We use a little RV-size fridge in our house. We were talking about how a fridge that opens on top, like a chest freezer, would lose less cold air each time...
From: "firekeeper38" <firekeeper38@...> ... They may still be the answer, for some of us........ Fortunately for us, we have superior materials to take...
This is very much the kind of thing I was talking about. Due to bad knees and back, I cannot go up or down steps. So, a "normal" root cellar would never work...
