Let's Rap About Climate Change
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Posted on 04/20/2011 12:54:15 PM PDT by Freemarkets101
Who is the next culprit in the global warming witch hunt? Your refrigerator.
A study conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a federal agency with a billion-dollar budget and an eye for global warming propaganda, concluded that ice makers increase rated energy consumption on refrigerators by 12 to 20 percent. Time, via Fox News, reported:
Climate modelers have long known that households are far bigger contributors to global warming than most laypeople realize. For all the blame tailpipe emissions take for escalating temperatures, homes and office buildings are actually the single largest contributor to greenhouse gasses. One key reason is the 100-plus million refrigerators in America's 111 million households. According to the Department of Energy, the standard fridge sucks up about 8% of the electricity used by all homes—a pretty big share given the dozens of big and small appliances and electronics that are also drawing juice. Due to this "environmental revelation", the Deparment of Energy - which helped fund the NIST's research - plans to add 84 kilowatt hours to the efficiency rating of every refrigerator with an icemaker. Such regulation will undoubtedly inflate prices and place unecessary strain on manufacturers.
So be a good citizen and go buy an ice tray. Remember, the planet is at stake.
If you are really really bored, click here to read the 79-page report.
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Consider how much greenhouse gas emissions we could save by turniing out the lights at the NIST and the DOE - permanently. Those agencies occupy some desirable, prime real estate in the Montgomery County suburbs outside DC.
GE refridgerators made in china with toxic glue only, right? /sarc
Ice made as needed is more energy efficient than ice made far away and transported in refrigerated trucks and stored for long periods. Also ice is a negative feedback to global warming.
Yep.
Ironically April 20th was Schicklgruber’s birthday, too.
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And the block of ice will melt down to an ice cube by the time Curley gets it to the top of the stairs.
How long before we have to pay extra for ice at restaurants?
Better get my freezer now...
OMG!...This idiocy must stop!....Throw all liberals out!
Who is the refrigerator czar?.....
Let's Rap About Climate Change
Global Warming on Free Republic
It probably won't matter, most of us won't be able to afford enough food to refrigerate!
“Change”.
Our side x side cost about $50 bucks a year to run. IMO, that’s pretty friggin good.
My very PC newsradio station in DC, WTOP, gave some advice the other morning on combating allergies. They said to wash your clothes and bedding with the hottest possible water to kill dust mites. I almost drove into the ditch. I'm sure that reporter was fired five minutes later.
When refrigerators are outlawed....
I just love the smell of Clorox in the summer. Guess it reminds me of days at the swimming pool as a kid. Pair it with Sea n' Ski and I'm in Heaven. It works miracles on mildew in the bathtub and on the scummy shower curtains. They come out sparkling.
Big deficits? Here's a group to cut...
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