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I believe these types of refrigerators are used on RVs and camper vans

• gorfian_robot 2mo ago
  they use either a propane flame and/or an electric heating element.
• mikestew 2mo ago
  Many Amish/Anabaptists use them, too: no electricity needed.
  • xg15 2mo ago
    Seems a bit hypocritical though: Yes, operating one does not need electricity, but I don't see how you'd build one (or just produce the required quantities of butane and ammonia) without modern industrial equipment and electricity.
    • mikestew 2mo ago
      Many Amish will ride in your car if you’re going into town, as one example. Similar to Sabbath-keeping Jews are allowed to have Gentiles do $TASK (not recalling offhand what that might be). Regardless, to think it hypocritical is to perhaps misunderstand the reasoning, in the case of the Amish. As I understand it, it’s not avoidance of technology, but avoidance of relying on technology. Thus opportunistic car rides in the neighbor’s car, or using a fridge someone else built as long as it runs on propane (which isn’t extracted with horses and buggies, either). Anyway, I don’t speak for any Amish, but I have lived around them and take that FWIW.