DIY fridge hack uses almost no electricity

An Australian guy hacked a freezer into a super-efficient refrigerator:

Nearly every household on Earth has a fridge that totally wastes at least 30 kwh of energy every month. Most of the energy is wasted every time you open the door. Cold air is heavier and falls out on the floor every time you open your fridge and warm air rises to fill the space it left. But with a top opening fridge; even if you leave the door wide open, gravity effortlessly leaves the heavy cold air inside. [...]

His home-made fridge uses much energy in 24 hours as a 100W light bulb gets through in just an hour.

Not only is it energy efficient; but it's absolutely silent too. The thing is only running for a minute or two every hour. At all other times it is perfectly quiet and consumes no power whatsoever.

Home Design Find: Green Fridge Invention Uses Almost No Electricity

(via Atom Jack)

I can see why this hasn't taken off - space constraints. It wouldn't fit in my kitchen, or in the kitchens of any of the apartments I've ever lived in. This may cause a problem for mass production. Still, it's a smart solution.

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xkcd - A Webcomic - Height

They should have a new sim- game: sim-airline. You could choose the flight
routes, the more popular = more expensive, with real delays due to
weather, etc. It might even alert the untraveled public to the fact that
afternoon flights into the NY area are _probably_ going to be delayed, and
yes, it's due to weather which means the airline assumes no responsibility
for stranding you and/or your luggage anywhere between your origin and
your destination.

<http://xkcd.com/482/>

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This Kilogram Has A Weight-Loss Problem

This Kilogram Has A Weight-Loss Problem:

More than a century ago, a small metal cylinder was forged in London and sent to a leafy suburb of Paris. The cylinder was about the size of a salt shaker and made of an alloy of platinum and iridium, an advanced material at the time.

Since 1889, the year the Eiffel Tower opened, that cylinder has been the standard against which every other kilogram on the planet has been judged. But that's creating problems. According to scientists, the cylinder's mass appears to be changing.

(Thanks, inky)

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Citroën Karin – today and tomorrow

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Beetle shell ceiling

1.6 million Buprestidae shells were glued to the ceiling of the Royal Palace in Brussels. The project is by artist Jan Fabre and his team of 30 beetle-gluers.

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I thought the nightmare was over...

Last night I dreamed I went over to a friend's house I was looking forward
to seeing, but we watched a horror movie. I'm not a big fan of horror
movies just because I get scared. This one was anime about some characters
who had to escape some middle ages monster, but it seemed to have a happy
ending when everyone got away (if only in spirit). I was relieved when I
thought the movie was over, but then I got the worst sensation of
real-world implications to watching the movie, as in it continued and
physically hurt me to watch the end which was like "The Ring" in that it
seemed to happen after the movie. It was like "Suicide Club", which I'm
still trying to ignore just because I can't deal with it right now (<-
drama). Anyway, I think I overslept this morning just to deal with this
dream.. Just woke up now at 11!

MySpace.com - View Image - sketches and drawings. - Photo 4 of 12

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Why didn't Opera beta detect a new beta?

Help I'm alive by Metric.. Feel like Boomer from Battlestar Galactica when she's having trouble deciding between the water and the trigger

Why does the universe have to be so finite all the time?

sicker than sickest dog

Yay I received the iTunes giftcard I had won!