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The Refrigerator Salesman (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Shinghaui to c/comicstrips

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[–] finitebanjo 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I used to have the same conversation with my mom over and over about refrigerators creating heat. She would set ice out in a bowl in the summer, from the indoor freezer, and I would explain to her that the machine creates more heat than the ice is cooling while it runs and that it is always running when you're putting things in freeze them and taking them out.

The fridge takes power and it's using power to move heat from the inside to the outside of it, and it's not 100% efficient so it radiates even more heat.

For decades we had this argument. Some people just don't understand basic simple concepts.

[–] Clearwater 3 points 2 weeks ago

To be real, the fact that refrigeration only moves heat is a rather weird concept, and you generally don't notice the heat from a fridge under normal operation.

If she had the compressor running continuously, she might noticed the kitchen being warmer than other rooms but probably would have almost certainly assumed something else was the cause.