Tom's Journal

I'm *very* skeptical of this post's claims (is it an "article"? Is it a publication?) Most fridges lose very little energy from air escaping when the door is opened, because air simply doesn't have that much heat content anyway, it's the solids & liquids that take most of the energy to cool, and they take more time to let heat transfer in. A home energy efficiency workshop I attended gave us some results from a study that compared the energy use of a refrigerator that had its door opened far far more often than would ever happen in actual use, vs. one that hardly ever had its door opened, and found the different in energy use insignificant.