$$$$$exyGal's Journal: Multiple lingo rider.

The latest links are at the top, and the practical question of the week is at the bottom.

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• Multiple - She has extra.
• lingo - A lingo ate your baby.
• rider. - Nobody ever forgets.
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• Painted - *original link broke...*
• clothes - Always wear clean underwear.
• baskets. - *original link broke...*
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• Slashdot - Who are those people?
• sandwich - How does this story end?
• dictionary. - Quantity does not equal quality.
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• An asian - Wu!
• cooking - Reason #1092 I am a vegetarian.
• an umbrella. - Usually circular canopy mounted on a central rod.
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• Love - Love means not smiling.
• red - Poussin nu chaud entouré dans le rouge.
• gently. - Some worthwhile flash that was new to me.
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• Natural - Absolutely no enhancements.
• itchy - Hello doctor? I need an antihistamine.
• dreams. - For more dreams like these, please insert 25 cents.
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• Suicide, - What modesty committed.
• sex, - Age, Blank, Location?
• and pennies. - They should convert that to dinars.
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Good bridge answers from last week ;-). Most of the answers were "thinking out of the box" type answers, like blowing up the bridge, waiting for the Earth to turn (which doesn't fit the question's criteria), etc. The best answer given was here (not that I understand it ;-)). Congrats! You get 5 points!

New question... Which of these (if any) will save me the most electricity in the long run? Note that the fridge is never turned off, and never fails, etc. And also note that "every open space" only means the normal parts of the fridge that are filled with food ;-).

1. Filling every open space in my fridge with buckets of water.
2. Filling every open space in my fridge with paper.
3. Filling every open space in my fridge with broken glass.
4. Filling every open space in my fridge with cotton.
5. Completely emptying my fridge.

From bridges to fridges in one week's time!

--gal

I would say

[Vilim]

I would say emptying it totally

If you fill it with buckets of water, that will keep your fridge cool the longest if it hypothetically did fail because water acts as a moderator to the temperature, however since you have to cool that water down that requires putting energy into it (well actually using energy to take energy from it). However your fridge doesn't fail to that is out of the question.

The other ones are just like water but they would require less energy to take energy out of your fridge so that

Re:I would say

[Zirnike]

Actually, the internal ambient temperature of the compartment will be the temperature of the surrounding materials. If you make a box with perfect vacuum, with molten lava walls, anything you place in it would become the temperature of the lava. Has to do with the IR radiation. :) Plus, a fridge works on convection to cool. No air=no convection. (the three types of heat transfer are convection (how your house is heated), conduction (how a soldering iron works), and radiation (why the earth doesn't free

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Fill every bit of extra space with water...

[berniecase]

I use extra 2-liter bottles filled with water to keep my fridge from using excessive amounts of electricity. Yes, it takes longer to cool the water, but the water stays cool a lot longer than just air. And when you've got a good volume of fridge filled with water (with a greater density than air), your compressor doesn't need to kick on as often because the fridge will remain colder longer.

The second you open the door on your fridge, you're loosing all that cool air. If your fridge is empty, expect the

Re:Fill every bit of extra space with water...

[Phroggy]

This gets my vote too.

Re:Fill every bit of extra space with water...

[Mike Schiraldi]

Wow, you're the first misspeller of "lose" to be lucky enough to have a sentence where "loose" works too.

Re:Fill every bit of extra space with water...

[berniecase]

Thank you, kind Grammar Nazi :-) Their must be somefing wrong with the way I spel. :-)

Re:Fill every bit of extra space with water...

[mekkab]

ditto.

when we made green houses in grade school it was recommended we include a coffee jar filled with water and painted it black.

Have you ever left a bottle of water in your car which was parked outside all day? Then at night, the inside of your car has cooled down, but if you get a drink from the water, its warm (and nasty-ass!).

So water retains its temperature longer than air.

I cannot speak for the thermal properties of glass. However- this suggestion brings together the best of all possible worlds

Re:Fill every bit of extra space with water...

[los furtive]

So water retains its temperature longer than air.

Anybody who's gone swimming in a lake or pool in the evening knows that one :-)

Re:Fill every bit of extra space with water...

[mekkab]

And anyone who's gone swimming in the atlantic on a warm day knows that one, too.
especially the guys...

there's nothing like freezing your nuts off.

Re:Fill every bit of extra space with water...

[autocracy]

I would like to note one thing for everybody making the water argument: heat transference only occurs with exchange of energy with the world outside the fridge. Yeah, water takes longer to get warm - but it takes longer to get cold. No matter how you look at it, that energy is still being used by the compressor to cool the contents of the fridge.

That stated, it is more efficient to run the compressor a smaller number of longer time periods than to do the inverse. So yes, some savings would be created ther

Depends on...

[autocracy]

Where the thermostat is located at... if it's near where the air blows out, go with densely packed paper. Paper is the best insulator of the group, and will keep the warm outer air from spreading far.

If the thermostat is away from the cooling vent, leave it with nothing but air. The seal on the door will keep the air from circulating outside, and frankly there's really nothing you can do to improve the insulation of the door - except maybe line all the surface with paper until you hit the thermostat :)

Now, for the practical answer: unplug the fridge. You're not cooling anything with it, and it's just stupid. Mainer's answer: stick the fridge outside. If you don't mind frozen food, you'll be just fine and it won't cost a thing.

that depends

[frozencesium]

if all the items start at room temperature, then there is a delta, i.e. things have to be cooled.

if eveything started out at the temperature of the fridge, then there would be no difference, with the exception of how much energy the refrigeration system would consume trying to maintain a certian temp, which would be dictated by the insulation of the refrigerator, not the contents.

of course, then we have to ask, are we talking about maintaining the temp at a givin power setting, or are we talking about a

Salt Water?

[torklugnutz]

Generally, it is recommended to keep your freezer as full as possible, since this is where the cold air from your fridge comes from (depending on what kinda fridge you have). Filling the fridge with water would also give the cold air some mass to give its energy to, just like a couple people have already said.

This brings me to the point I wanted to make. Salt water freezes at a lower temp than fresh water. Since fresh water freezes at 32, wouldn't salt water be able to more effectivly absorb temperature lo