> Consumer fridges also consume a lot more energy in the interest of keeping humidity (and, subsequently, frost) out of the compartment. Yep. I'm pretty sure

> Consumer fridges also consume a lot more energy in the interest of keeping humidity (and, subsequently, frost) out of the compartment. Yep. I'm pretty sure if you had an upright fridge built to modern standards but cooled conductively (convectively?) it would be about as efficient as the chest fridge here, but it would also have the same condensation problem.