{"id":875,"date":"2012-08-27T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T14:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=875"},"modified":"2012-08-27T10:37:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T14:37:13","slug":"refrigerator-and-energy-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"refrigerators and energy efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re always trying to get our house running as efficiently (and as cheaply) as possible. We’re re-doing our kitchen and have thought about moving the old refrigerator the basement. I had a start when I saw this graphic in Grid suggesting that getting rid of the refrigerator might save $252 or 1800 kWh. Damn — that’s a lot. <\/p>\n

But then I went to the <\/a> and entered the model number of my fridge:<\/p>\n

GTS18FBS 18.2 cubic feet Top Freezer<\/p>\n

This unit uses 552 kWh a year. Using the Energy Cooperative (.1025) price that’s $55.55 per year. <\/p>\n

Lessons learned:
\n1. We’ll happily $55 extra a year to run a second fridge\/freezer, money that we’ll more than recoup by buying in bulk.
\n2. Older refrigerators are outrageous power hogs. <\/p>\n

Q: Will the basement, where it’s generally 55 degrees year round, make it cheaper to run this unit? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re always trying to get our house running as efficiently (and as cheaply) as possible. We’re re-doing our kitchen and have thought about moving the old refrigerator the basement. I had a start when I saw this graphic in Grid suggesting that getting rid of the refrigerator might save $252 or 1800 kWh. Damn — … Continue reading refrigerators and energy efficiency<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-e7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}