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You fundamentally misunderstand your matryoshka doll of insulated boxes! In winter, you don’t want to bring in very cold stuff from outside the big box into a
by Scoundreller 4y ago
You fundamentally misunderstand your matryoshka doll of insulated boxes!
In winter, you don’t want to bring in very cold stuff from outside the big box into a smaller box inside the big box: the net effect is you’re making the overall big box colder.
Heat pumps are very efficient!
Though your argument holds up if electricity is expensive and heat is cheap (e.g. off grid with woodstove heat)
If anything, you want to bring stuff from outside the big box, put it in the little box to chill further (dumping the heat inside your big box), and then toss out the super chilled stuff from the little box out of the big box.
- bombcar 4y agoWhat I want to do is put the little box outside the big box in winter, though I suspect all the "waste heat" the freezer/fridge "burns up" offsets the gas used to heat the house somewhat. All in all it's too complicated to work out, but I will admit to leaving frozen goods in the trunk in the winter because of laziness.
- Scoundreller 4y agoBecomes a problem when everything freezes in the warmer littler box inside the little box. But nooooooooooooo, bring the warmish frozen stuff into the little box inside the big box in winter ASAP. (Unless, like I said, you're offgrid with unlimited trees)