100 Whr Per Day Refrigerator

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From Daren

Article on converting a chest freezer to a refrigerator - [1]

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that links to this product - [2]

The point of the above is that you can get a chest freezer to function as a refrigerator - with a factor of 10 energy reduction (150 Watt hours per day, or equivalent to running a laptop for 2 hours) compared to the USA average of about 1500 watt hours per day [3].

From Thad

this is very promising - how to convert chest freezers to extreme efficiency refrigerators that use about 100Wh/day:

http://mtbest.net/chest_fridge.html