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EPA Encourages Utility-Controlled Refrigerators
Cybercast News Service ^ | July 3, 2013 10:00 AM | Eric Scheiner

Posted on 07/04/2013 5:28:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai

At times of peak demand for electricity, do you want your refrigerator to run at the discretion of the power company?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has revised its Energy Star energy-efficiency requirements for residential refrigerators, and it is encouraging the inclusion of “connected” features that respond to utility signals to curb their energy consumption.

The EPA announced the new requirements on June 27. Included is the optional “smart-grid” connection for customers to electronically connect their refrigerator or freezer with a utility provider. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: epa; publicutility; refrigerators; temperaturecontrol
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To: Olog-hai

Good luck controlling the Servels still out there.


41 posted on 07/04/2013 6:00:48 PM PDT by meatloaf (3)
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To: Olog-hai

Instead of threatening America with food poisoning, a far better alternative would be to start insulating commercial refrigerators and ovens with thin sheet aerogel. Once they were at temperature, they would stay there a lot longer without additional energy.

That is, unless the objective of the EPA *is* to give America food poisoning, while wasting vast amounts of perishable food.


42 posted on 07/04/2013 6:05:05 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: bigheadfred

It will soon be a required element.


43 posted on 07/04/2013 6:09:04 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Olog-hai

EPA Encourages Utility-Controlled Refrigerators for the White House


44 posted on 07/04/2013 6:09:48 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.))
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To: NewHampshireDuo

Yeah right?

Another conspiracy theory turns into conspiracy fact!


45 posted on 07/04/2013 6:10:35 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Olog-hai

From my experience, a heat lamp placed near the thermostat will defeat a locked thermostat cage and temperature can be controlled by moving the heat lamp...

Older units with the mercury switch could also be tilted a bit to achieve the desired effect.


46 posted on 07/04/2013 6:12:41 PM PDT by Clay Moore ("In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." Napoleon Bonaparte)
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To: Olog-hai

Guess who will have the coldest refrigerator in town ?

“The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat. “He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.” During the campaign Obama said: “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said. “That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added. “ — from 2009


47 posted on 07/04/2013 6:12:54 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: Olog-hai
I see some potential business opportunities in finding workarounds for or just disconnecting this stuff for people.
48 posted on 07/04/2013 6:17:00 PM PDT by GBA (Our obamanation: Animal Farm meets 1984 in A Brave New World. Crony capitalism, chaos and control.)
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To: upchuck

You do know there is frozen and there is FROZEN, frozen will spoil quick even below 32°, FROZEN -10° to -20° is ideal but what you need is at least -5°.


49 posted on 07/04/2013 6:17:54 PM PDT by this_ol_patriot
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To: bigheadfred
it will be a cold day in hell...


50 posted on 07/04/2013 6:19:42 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Paladin2

Bingo! on that.

I have a small generator for running exactly those items in generally that priority. We had a windstorm 2 weeks ago and were without utility power for 35 hours, it came in really handy.


51 posted on 07/04/2013 6:21:56 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SilverMine

“The EPA is unconstitutional, there is no authority in the US Constitution for the EPA it should therefore be abolished.”

Hussein rules the country - the constitution is useless when the ruler ignores it. The EPA will cut off your power if Hussein says do it. If we don’t revolt soon, we won’t have enough strength and electric power left to do it.


52 posted on 07/04/2013 6:31:10 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.)
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To: bunkerhill7
We are getting either a Sunfrost refrigerator or 2 Engel refrigerator/freezers for travel that we can use off grid at home too.

I just bought a gasoline powered (or whatever other power you wish to hook up to the V-belt) antique washing machine with wringer on top built in.

We plan to use this at antique engine shows, but can also do our laundry in it if need be.

We have converted the entire house and barn lighting to LEDs, so we can run the boiler, refrigerator and all lighting on less than 2KW.

We heat our hot water with solar, and are slowly converting the house heat and electricity to solar and wood.

The goal is to be able to go off grid within a couple of years, sooner if need be.

53 posted on 07/04/2013 6:31:29 PM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: this_ol_patriot

Thanks. Thermometer in the freezer section consistently says -11° F.


54 posted on 07/04/2013 6:32:59 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: Olog-hai

Screw the EPA. I had my so-called smart meter removed some months ago.


55 posted on 07/04/2013 6:52:04 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Olog-hai
i wonder if it would work with Galvanic isolation like in UPS systems with no true direct wire connection???
56 posted on 07/04/2013 6:59:37 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: SandRat

57 posted on 07/04/2013 7:01:55 PM PDT by bigheadfred (barry your mouth is writing checks your ass cant cash)
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To: Mogger

Add one Lister engine, which can run anything under the sun with a bit of ingenuity, and you’ve got an off the grid swiss army knife of power. They run great on peanut oil or veg, as well.


58 posted on 07/04/2013 7:03:34 PM PDT by RobertClark (My shrink just killed himself - he blamed me in his note!)
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To: bigheadfred

Isn’t that pic from Unintended Consequences?


59 posted on 07/04/2013 7:22:49 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Olog-hai

This is going to cause a lot of food borne illness.


60 posted on 07/04/2013 7:25:46 PM PDT by tbw2
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