2007-03-05 14:32:07 · 3 answers · asked by theranikal 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Eventually yes, but its not very economical. It would take a long time and energy to cool a room by an open door on a refrigerator. If the room has poor insulation and it is very hot the refrigerator may not be able to keep up the cooling and would most probably make nil effect in cooling the room. Refrigerators are not designed to cool rooms. That's why they have doors.
2007-03-05 14:40:43 · answer #1 · answered by Professor Kitty 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Refrigerators and air conditioners both work the way the 1st answerer indicated. The main difference is that the air conditioner has the heat exchanger outside of the house. If you mounted the fridge in the wall with the coil on the back of it sticking outside it would work, but poorly. Refrigerators are designed to cool a few cubic feet of airtight and well insulated space, not several hundred cubic feet of a even a moderate sized room, which needs some ventilation and usually isn't nearly as well insulated as a refrigerator. I have known people to modify window air conditioners to use on homemade walk-in type freezers.
2007-03-05 15:14:46 · answer #2 · answered by Now and Then Comes a Thought 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it wouldn't. It would let the cool air out of the refrigerator, but the way a refrigerator works is that it has a heat exchange with the air outside of it, so the heat is essentially pumped out of the refrigerator and into the surrounding room. If you left the door open, it would be doing the heat exchange in the same room, and no net heating or cooling would occur (well it might get hotter because running the refrigerator uses energy, and some of that is lost as heat, but that has to deal with the laws of thermodynamics).
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2007-03-05 14:37:41 · answer #3 · answered by Science Guy41 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋