Free Energy Fridge ....and me yammering on about its coolness

[jakysz145]

Only stupid thing is that you put ,that box behind that log ,so its a bit unconfortable to open it and I would put it a bit higher ,cos ten u dont have to bend every time u want to open it and I think that is not good to keep food near polister its can be poisonous.....but its just my opinion ,by the way ,sorry about my

english :)

[upcycle]

it might be interesting to sticke a temp probe through the foam to gauge the temp? maybe even one that can log temp over period of time. u guys make a cute couple. U both have a fun sense of humor.

[hongkongfooyHAZE]

like u

[gelflingfaysuzanne]

that was why people had cellers. usually at a far end of a home, outside of the home orunder the home. the original fridge. when i build a home i am going to build a celler. i will still have a fridge for meat at the like but the rest i want to keep in the cellar.

[PATRICKLARUE73]

are you f stuipid

[drumstick37]

"I'm gonna punch you in the ovaries." LOL

[supersproutify]

But if it's exposed to the outside someone can open it and STEAL ALL YOUR FOODS!!!!

lol j/k love all your videos! <3 I live vicariously in my walled in conformist life through your awesome life.

[ealabor]

That's a pretty condescending attitude to have there Jaime, concerning the comment on refrigeration.

People don't continue "trends" because they are stupid. No one can know everything, and suffice to say not everyone is going to have the technical knowhow that you do concerning mechanics and the like. Im sure if we all did, things would be different.

And of such idiots whom have focused their knowledge elsewhere, might look at your life and think you do some stupid things yourself.

[outwrangle]

@slipshodcoqbgg Sorry to be a downer, but there is not such thing as free energy. Let me explain.

"Energy" is made up of particles; for the most part, we use electrons (electricity) and photons (almost everything else). We don't create energy, but rather release particles from resting states. Nothing is created.

For instance, when burning coal, you are breaking and forming chemical bonds, which releases photons in the form of heat.

So, tell me, how can one "create" particles from nothing?

[DayLunar]

@outwrangle Semantics here: Free vs previously unused energy. The "fridge" is allowing energy to leave the food stored in it to the outside. The sun lands on sidewalks and roads and heats them up, which isn't a desired result. What if we turned them into a form of solar cell, to harvest that energy? PS Jaime I love your videos.

[45calGunslinger]

@outwrangle Uhm not really. Energy is it's own quantifiable phenomenon, but isn't actual matter. We can convert matter to energy via primitive means, but it cost us six billion dollars to do the opposite. Heat is energy. Movement is energy. Electrons and photons are just ways to transfer energy from one thing to another. You've got the right idea but active energy isn't really a physical object in the way you describe. It's like saying 180mph is a physical object. It's a relationship with matter

[ironbord]

what did you do without a fridge?

[kleenex3000]

Your idea appears appealing, but it has real relevance only if you hav no electric current at all..

My smaller Frig. had a consumption of 90Watts when actually cooling "engine on" and, as measured over time, an average power consumption of only 20 Watts.  The yearly costs, based upon 0.18 €/kWh is 31.54 €. This is totally negligible as compared to other consumers of electric energy.

[soonerbob81972]

"I'm gonna punch you in the ovaries"! Ouch.

[dubbbear]

did she get a million dollars?

[breezebro]

Back in the olden days people had a wooden box with a door in the front. The ice man would bring around blocks of ice. People put the ice block in the wooden box with their food to make an "ice box" to keep things cool. That's why us old people still call the fridge an "ice box".

[screenflicker1]

you steal my thoughts Jaimie. I have thought of that so many times but you were the one that went and built one

[emmber19]

He has a penchant for doing that.

[togaida]

It's Ironic how it's COOL, that you've never had a refridgerator, but not COOL, that people have (electric powered) fridges, in a manner of speaking, that is. It's like a Yogi Bera-ism, Lady tells him he's cool, he tells her, "you're not so hot yourself."

[holysven]

Try buring a box, if you find the right deepth you will have a constant temp. of +4C :D

[ptitlib]

Looks like the temperature difference between the outside and inside your nicely isolated place is pretty huge. What about a Stirling engine to take advantage of it? A little amount of free energy every day...

[racm32]

you can also use a spring. the water in the spring will stay cool year round and you can just set things in it. Your spring house would be perfect for that

[racm32]

sorry once you switched to Dashaina I did not hear anything else that was said. I wish I had a best friend like her ;)

[mattegeniet]

But it's really not that wasteful.. There are many reasons for having a usual fridge inside your house. The energy used also becomes heat, so with a heating sink you could use that energy to heat up the house.. And suppose that fride will be more like an oven during summer when the sun shines on the metal... Cool idea during the winther though. And it's also possible using solar heat to cool a fridge, by using the loss of energy of evaporating water.

[edjorg]

Am I looking at the kitchen "renovation" you were talking about? Nice.

[OneEyedCyberchicken]

some of you are missing his point.. ANY use of electricity to cool off food, when a FREE source is available is WASTEFUL!.

THATS his point! He uses PURE solar to run his electricity, and to use THAT to run a refrigerator, would be sensless.

Jamie.. on that note, maybe come summertime, you could dig a small hole in one corner and cover it with an access door, and have a"root Cellar" as they were called way back when in the days before refrigerators were invented.

Protect Them Overies!!

[maddogtjones]

did she just say she was going to punch jamie in the ovaries?

[LloydFayt]

@maddogtjones yes, yes she did lol

[maddogtjones]

cool! that would hurt.

[rjmackenzie]

Where fridges are wasteful is during the summer with air conditioning. Then you have two devices fighting each other. I want to hook up a heat exchanger between my pool and my fridges, as they can in theory work together to keep each other at the right temp.

In BC electricity is pretty cheap, so a heat exchanger is a great solution.

There are some neat active systems that work to manage heat inside houses now, that work with the sun and with large bodies of water as heat dumps.

[rjmackenzie]

As has been mentioned by trevdak, "cooling a space inside a heated space" is not wasteful. It may not be as efficient as it could be, but not as bad as you seem to think.

The fridge will be pumping out heat in order to cool the inside, which is just less work for your heater to do. Because the heater works in a thermostat, it stops when the house is warm, not caring where the heat came from.

[futsalfred2]

Thats a fairly interesting way to put it, never thought of it like that.

[DudeParallel]

Completely agreed.

It is pretty silly.

Around here, outside in shade temps, it is usually cold until around summer.

I'm using it right now to keep some of my stuff cool.

Although during winter there, it got so cold that it literally froze a bottle of orange solid... haha.

Also, look in to thermoelectricity like @3190423 mentioned, the temperature difference there should give you a decent amount of power that can be used or even stored.

Several things can be used for storage.

[Joelbitar07]

Hehe. Thought it was pretty fun that wile watching this vid a "need a loan? click here" ad popped up youtube :)

[trevdak]

Actually, cooling your fridge heats your house even more. Where do you think all the heat energy that was inside the fridge goes?

[motters2001]

Of course it's going to be a ketchup warmer in the summer :-)

[hakachukai]

Dropkick you in the OVERIES!

:::laughs:::

Cool Video though!

How was it 88deg in the dome? Was because of a wood stove, or is that just from the sunlight?

[Nysswald]

"I'am gonna punch you in the ovaries" I laughed :D Btw, you guys are like crazy fit, good job :)

[pinetar100]

how about a root cellar ? thinking of building on myself

[Adams116]

JME I think the fumes from the spray foam are addicting as much as you use that stuff 8^)

[sp4zzpp2]

europe had external "cool rooms" when fridges weren't invented. it was pretty cold in winter, also the coldness cooled down the living room/kitchen so one had to heat it up again.

[paperjack93]

wouldn't the metallic refrigerator become an oven during summer ?

By the way, with a simple vent and some tubes, you can make a real refrigerator.

Refrigerators work by having a moving liquid(or gas) take away heat by contact.

When the atoms of the coolant hit something, they exchange a bit of their own coldness to the atom hit, receiving heat in return. If you keep a costant flow of anything on a surface, it wil cool down.

[captainvideoblogger]

For summer you could do a "mini cellar" - a fridge sized hole into the ground. Those work pretty well.

[Poldax]

Interesting. Something that I had never considered.

[dirtTdude]

heh... i keep my fridge out on the back porch during the winter and turn my hot water heater off during weekdays and heat my house with wood, my Internet connection and phone bill is more than my power bill... now all i have to do is escape from buying gasoline

[Kayzaks]

Jaimie, she's going to kill you in your sleep one day ;)

[blogs454]

Could you put a thermometer inside the fridge, and sit a thermometer outside of the fridge for a comparison?

I'd like to see the kind of temperature difference your getting :D

[GeeKayKayGee]

Seems to me that it's only when the AC is on that a fridge creates a detrimental energy load.

During heating season refrigerators move heat from the inside to the outside of their cabinet so they are adding heat to the living space which means the heating system doesn't have to run as much. During heating season they are contributing to heating the house.

[TheGreatSteve]

Same as lightbulbs!

[penguinx42]

@GeeKayKayGee Using the "back end" of a refrigerator as a heater is still less efficient than just using a heater, especially if the fridge is just moving heat that was already generated by the real heater. So it's still detrimental overall.

[frosty9595]

@GeeKayKayGee Still takes energy to move that heat around. Even though It is contributing heat I spose.

[zeffii]

" they set their lives up to cost a fortune" exactly !

[kimxxxyyy]

I have often thought the same thing about the fridge how they could work with nature, also I dont understand how most people like air-condition it makes the air way to cold & when nature makes the air that cold most people turn a heater on! its very mindless! people need to learn how to go naked when they r too warm most are too fat!

[scutter4christ]

Im going to punch you in the ovaries - ROFL.

[2bsirius]

I'm reading a book called the Empathetic Civilization. One point he makes is that if we are going to solve the energy crisis, we will need to develop distributed energy sources and stop depending on these giant and fragile energy grids to heat and cool our cities, etc.

You are actually creating a lot of distributed energy possibilities.

Good stuff!

[ArchNME]

meh... you're over complicating this. I just leave stuff outside in the winter. I live on a boat though, so I don't have to worry about animals stealing stuff or whatever.

Also... umm... MAYONNAISE IS DANGEROUS. I wouldn't' trust that stuff outside of a strict temperature controlled environment. If it warms up even for an hour or two in the middle of the day it could spoil that stuff. It's given me food poisoning before and that sucks, bad.

random thought > you should build a cellar

[futsalfred2]

That shitty-ass mayonnaise crammed with preservatives you get from the grocery store isn't going to spoil that quickly. I assume Jaimie doesn't make his own mayonnaise, to the best of my knowledge he doesn't own chickens and probably wouldn't buy eggs to sepcifically make amyonnaise. assumptions ftw

[ArchNME]

Yeah, I don't make my own mayonnaise either or buy some kind of organic gourmet no preservatives stuff. I would assume he is using a mayonnaise of similar properties to that which I have experience with.

[jlw5015]

Dashaina is sassy and she looks amazing.

[futsalfred2]

For a fleeting instant, when the camera switched to Dashaina I thought it was Jaimie wearing a pink bikini.

[ShawnCFarm]

You perv lol 5/5

[idahodad1]

You could design a box that has tubing coiled around the outside and hook it up to your spring water setup. It should keep things in the 40's in the summertime.

[rebel937]

Cool idea, your going to need a walk in size one to keep yourself cool if Dashaina gets any sexier looking..lol

[furroy2]

did she say "i'm going to punch you in the ovaries???" hahahahha, nice one.

but, i'm just confused why you put it directly behind that pole? it looks inconvenient there.

[breezebro]

Here, It would be an oven except for about 2 weeks of the year.

[Everfalling]

about your comment on refrigerators in warm houses:

i'm sure you realize this but not everyone lives in a place where the climate is constantly cold for the majority of the year and thus can't really use a fridge that uses the outside cold to cool food. though there is a show where i saw a ski resort do just that during the months it's cold out and then in the summer they seal it up and revert it back to a regular fridge.

[squiggles2341]

I think he was referring to the people who DO live in a climate where the majority of the year its cold, because the heat has to be on