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Originally Posted by pete c
In the winter it [A FRIDGE] helps warm the house, so no worries there, but in the summer it [A FRIDGE] heats an already hot house.
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Seems to me that you should not have that much heat being dumped into your home.
You didn't say anything about it, but do you have several large commercial refrigerators operating?
How large is your family?
Do you have several teen-age kids who like to eat and party all the time?
Before you go rogue over capturing all that wasted heat, I think you should consider that:
- Your refrigerator might be extremely inefficient.
- Your refrigerator might be way too large.
- You could benefit from having an 'all refrigerator' in the kitchen and a separate freezer located outside the house envelope.
- You could also build a "freezerator", and reduce your refrigerator power usage by a minimum of 50%. My guess is your power reduction would be much larger.
I'm very much in favor of salvaging wasted heat, but I think you should focus on reducing the energy wastage at the source, than trying to remove wasted heat later. Otherwise, you will be building more technology on top of bad technology.
Best,
-AC_Hacker