Eric Prydz Vs Pink Floyd -Brick In Fridge Freezer?

Supercell

The Eric Prydz Vs Pink Floyd - "Proper Education" video shows kids doing various green things like brick in the cistern (less water used during toilet flush), replacing normal bulbs with energy saving ones etc.

However they also put a brick in a fridge freezer compartment.
I don't get it, surely the more stuff in your freezer the more energy is needed to keep it frozen?

Can anyone explain what's green about putting a brick in your freezer compartment of the fridge?

mike65

That makes sense, the freezer that is nearly full is much more efficient. Most of the power used to freeze is spent keeping the air cold, once the goods have frozen they retain the cold, air does'nt.

Mike.

ps I though this thread was the mis-placed post of the year when I saw the title!

Fanny Cradock

For a moment i thought you were suggesting they took a dump directly into the cistern - "brick in the cistern".

Musha

The brick would act in the same way a fire brick wold for central heating. Keep things cold in the event of a power failure? I suppose.

BTW put a fire brick at the back of your open fire to store the heat right through to the following day:) it cuts down on the amount of fuel(wood, Coal) you can but on during any refills

still

HI Fanny

"For a moment i thought you were suggesting they took a dump directly into the cistern - "brick in the cistern"."

This is whats know as Top Decking.....

I Dont know where i heard that but it made me laugh years ago.

Supercell

Thanks all

Capt'n Midnight

Musha wrote:

The brick would act in the same way a fire brick wold for central heating. Keep things cold in the event of a power failure? I suppose.

BTW put a fire brick at the back of your open fire to store the heat right through to the following day:) it cuts down on the amount of fuel(wood, Coal) you can but on during any refills

better off using those blue things that melt to keep the food frozen.

if you want to reduce the air movement maybe clear plastic bags with air in them - like sealable freezer bags ?

fire bricks are good - but depends on what you burn, turf is less dense than coal so you need a bigger fire, in the old days they used to put a pot or saucepan over the last piece of turf and then next day lift it off and the fire would restart from the embers