THE WINDOW REFRIGERATOR

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THE HYBRID WINDOW REFRIGERATOR & A/C

Patents Pending

windowrefrigerator.com or winref.com

At night you close your window to keep your home warm.

Why not open it to your refrigerator's back, to keep it cool and save electricity.

Simple Energy Savings for: Summer, Fall/Spring, and Winter.

Its condenser coil, like a window A/C's condenser coil, is outdoors to save electricity whenever the kitchen is warmer than the outdoors (which, because of the oven, the indoor refrigerator, and the dishwasher, is most of the time). In winter it uses the outdoor cold air to cool its inside. In the summer, it freezes water behind the refrigerator compartment at night when it's cool outdoors. During the day, the ice melts keeping the refrigerator cool. It can be built into a thru-the-wall air conditioner or a heat pump, which is usually installed under the window through an opening in the wall.

By combining the major components in refrigerators, air conditioners and heat pumps, it become a hybrid synergistic device that costs less, is more energy efficient, saves space and works better than the individual devices.

1) Reduce the initial system cost by reducing manufacturing and shipping costs.

2) Reduce pollution by reducing the number of appliances that are disposed of in landfills.

3) Reduce the number of and installation-maintenance costs of appliances in buildings, hotels and condominiums.

4) Reduce refrigerator noise by having its motor and compressor outdoors.

5) Saves electricity and extends refrigerator's life by reducing its workload at night or whenever the outdoors is colder than the kitchen.

6) In the summer it doesn't heat the home and work against the A/C.

7) Increase consumer choice and convenience.

Saves Electricity

According to the US Energy Information Administration's web site, in 2001, 13.7% of all residential electricity was consumed by refrigerators – the highest of all the household appliances. The separate freezer consumed an additional 3%. The household refrigerator consumes more electricity than a computer, computer monitor, television, printer, copier, clothes dryer, space heater, water heater or the indoor/outdoor lighting (9%). It even consumes more electricity than a window A/C (2%), because unlike the A/C, the refrigerator is a necessity that is never turned off.

An Analogy: When the outdoor is 80° F, the window A/C consumes less electricity than when it's 100° F outdoors. The same is true of a window refrigerator. When the outdoor temperature is 60° F, 50° F, 40° F, or 30° F the window refrigerator consumes less electricity than the indoor refrigerator that is in a 70°- 80° F kitchen day and night all year round.

As the outdoor temperature drops, the window refrigerator's efficiency (coefficient of performance, or COP) increases. The COP depends primarily on the temperature difference between the refrigerator's condenser and evaporator. The closer the two temperatures are (the colder the outdoors), the higher the COP and the more heat that can be transferred with less work (electricity).