Explorer Products? [RE-wrenches]

[bill loesch]

>
We steer people towards the new generation of Energy Star Appliances.  At
our grid connected house we have a Amana 20.5 cu. ft with bottom freezer
that uses around 1.2 - 1.5 kWh per day depending on the season.<

Hi Travis,

Glad to hear you were able to better the yellow sticker (EPA?, DOE?)
rating. 
Please refresh my memory, doesn't the bottom freezer inherently use a bit
more power?
I personally would much prefer the more ergonomically efficient bottom
freezer. In almost 50 years on this earth, I've never had the need to buy a
new fridge. Both houses came "fridge furnished" and the current one a 21cu
ft 1.9 kWh (winter) daily user is still ticking. The meter was a Watts Up
unit introduced to me by a future customer, reportedly $100 at RealGoods, I
have no experience, yet, with the Brand product. 

In a former life, I performed energy efficiency testing on storage hot
water heaters to verify the yellow sticker ratings. During meetings with my
coharts in other industries, I discovered that a huge fraction of the
lifetime residential energy budget went to the refrigerator since the
builder uses the cheapest (and most likely low efficiency) unit he can
find. Moreover, the refrigerator can outlast the HWH and because of the
parts count, the fridge is oftentimes economically repairable. One proposal
in the 70's was to mandate energy efficiency numbers much like is done with
cars. As you see it never happened.

Bill Loesch
bill_loesch at compuserve.com
314 631 1094
St Louis Solar
St Louis MO
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