Jackery launched its stylish, slim FridgeGuard CleanTechnica was given an exclusive preview of the FridgeGuard a couple of months ago and we came away impressed with what we saw. Clear attention was given to design the refrigerator backup battery to fit customer needs and the refrigerator application The final product … [continued]
Virtually all manufacturers today build their “durable” white and brown goods with planned obsolescence. They are designed to fail instead of designed for the longest possible lifetime. Concurrently, most now come with 1-year warranties, or longer warranties as a marketing gimmick, with some of the purchase price put aside by the bean counters for the inevitable failures. The reason for all this is increased profit.
Fridges rank as one of the biggest energy users in the home. If you’re looking at replacing/upgrading for the sake of lowering your utility bills and carbon footprint, here are some things to consider.
For Earth Day this year, Jeff Flowers of Living Direct introduced a detailed infographic showing a few things homeowners can do to cut energy use around their homes, save money, and help re-green the earth. Earth Day is essentially every day for us, so we’re just getting around to sharing … [continued]
Originally published on Global Warming: Man or Myth by Scott Mandia Simple. Replace that old refrigerator with a modern energy-saving unit. I am saving $263 per year with my new refrigerator. Back in February, 2010, in a post titled I am Saving 21% on my Electric Bill – So Can You!, I showed how … [continued]
Originally published on Climate Progress by Jonathan Koomey Last week, several friends alerted me to a claim that the iPhone supposedly uses as much electricity as two refrigerators — when you count the energy needed to make it, run it and power the “behind-the-wall” equipment to deliver data to the … [continued]
Scientists in Spain and Germany are working on a new material that could set the refrigeration industry back 80 years – in a good way, that is. As reported by Science Daily, instead of fluorinated gasses the new material is a solid, like the familiar old blocks of ice from … [continued]
Live in the UK? You may be the lucky recipient of a free “intelligent” refrigerator. 3,000 fridges that adapt power usage based on the demands of the electrical grid will be given away by the government next year. According to a report from the UK Department of Energy and Climate … [continued]
Ice cream lovers of the United States, rejoice. Greenpeace and Ben & Jerry’s have teamed up to bring the first climate-safe ice cream freezer to the USA. The Greenfreeze refrigerator eliminates the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), an extremely potent greenhouse gas that has 1,400 times the global warming impact of … [continued]
Albert Einstein is probably most remembered by the public for his General Theory of Relativity, but how many remember his 1930 invention of a refrigerator that used no electricity? I wasn’t there when it was introduced, but I knew several people who had one, and they weren’t all that happy … [continued]
