Why are fridges in cold climate countries not mounted into the wall of a house so the ambient air could cool the inside?
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No matter how cold it is outside it’s never consistent enough to serve as a fridge. The closest to what you’re describing is a cellar. Also the way fridges work makes this less than ideal. They can take heat out of the inside to make it cool enough but they can’t do the opposite, which means that if you placed a fridge in an environment colder than the set temperature inside the fridge then the fridge would eventually get as cold as the outside temperature which is not desirable. Also fridges would have to come in two units like air conditioners with a unit outside and a unit inside, something that’s not feasible for apartments.
I have in fact done what you describe in Norway. I went there for a couple of months to work and me and the rest of the workers were hosted in rooms that didn’t have fridges. It was at the height of the pandemic so food was brought to us outside our doors instead of dining in the cafeteria and a lot of us would eat some of it and keep the snacks or fruit for later so we’d hang the bag outside the window. The result was that most foods got ruined because it was too cold outside, around -15 C.
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