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Subject:Re: Fridge Burner box
From:Dave Mcneely
Date:Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:09:56 -0500

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator

---- Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MYMTS.NET> wrote:
> So can someone explain to this Arts student how burning propane results in cool?
>
> Jeff
> (not intending to insult fellow Arts students!)
>
> On 2012-08-26, at 4:46 PM, David Beierl wrote:
>
> > At 10:30 AM 8/26/2012, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> >> That refrigerator uses 900 btu/hr on maximum setting, it says. A 16.4 oz
> >> bottle of propane provides 10,000 btu so the unit would drain a bottle
> >> in 11 hours. That's not so good.
> >
> > On maximum setting it's a deep freeze.  Lehman's claim .7 lb/day
> > typical consumption.
> >
> > Yrs,
> > d
> >

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David McNeely