2nd rule
2026-04-23 00:36 UTC
Replies (16)
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@Semester3383@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 00:41
That’s… Kind of what it already does though. It’s just that it’s not cooling the inside enough to heat very much of your house.
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@Skyrmir@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 00:53
Id rather have one that sends it’s heat outside the house so my AC isn’t fighting the fridge. And reverse that in the winter.
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@Mucki@feddit.org 2026-04-23 05:48
Can anyone explain why almost everyone operates a fridge inside a heated house in winter while there is “a fridge outside”. Would the fridge not need less power to cool down the insides when it’s already cold outside? Am I really the only one in this world with a fridge outside?
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@cravl@slrpnk.net 2026-04-23 03:06
Okay, but hear me out. If you reverse it, you’ll have a heat pump oven that also cools your house. 🤓
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@muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-23 05:00
They literally do that already. Heat doesn’t vanish from your food. It’s moved from the inside of the box to the outside of the box. It’s an air conditioner built into a cooler.
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@isameower99@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-23 05:34
Fridges have always been doing that for ages. I'd rather not let them dump heat indoors and instead move the heat directly outdoors to keep my air conditioner from running too hard.
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@expatriado@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 01:09
weird kitchen, if i am cooking on the stove and i want an ingredient from the fridge, i have to walk around that wall, and we know that's something we do multiple times
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@Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 02:05
I do this in rimworld to get just a little bit more heat in winter
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@Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-23 01:41
what a genius.
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@solidheron@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-23 15:04
This is why I don’t think fridges should have their own cut out. It blocks the air flow
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@whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-23 15:20
Yeah but now you’ve got to find a place to store or how to discard all the little arrows, and the orange light probably is too bright at night
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@SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-23 17:19
I have a better idea One system that is both an Air conditioning system that uses waste heat to heat water. And uses waste “cold” from heating water to cool house.
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@homura1650@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 17:58
When I was a kid, our family dog would drag his blanket to our fridge and spend the night bundled up in front of it (where the exhaust heat was)
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@Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2026-04-23 14:54
No joke, I think thermal networking will one day be common in homes. It exists to some extent already in large commercial building design if only because the business sense of the added efficiency is easy to illustrate at that scale.
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@WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2026-04-24 05:57
My house has hydronic heated wood floors. Warm water from the heater unit circulates through pipes under the floor, heating the room from the ground up. It rules. It’s quiet, even, and amazing in winter.
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@PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 06:37
Best part: every fridge in every house already does this. You just collect the money!