GBlist: GBList: High-Efficiency Refrigerators

MICHAEL ROGERS (ROGERS.MICHAEL@epamail.epa.gov)
Fri, 28 Mar 1997 14:36:38 -0500

I've appreciated the thoughts on the new Maytag horizontal axis washing machine.
Maybe this means I won't have to try find (and pay for?) a Miele.

I'm curious about high-efficiency refrigerators for use in homes. (And I'm equally
curious why that heat-producing motor is generally placed under the box--so that the
heat rises into the area being cooled.) Obviously, a right-size frig, as opposed to a
behemoth, is part of the answer. What about non-cfc insulation? separate (really
separate, not just two doors) freezer/frigs? etc., etc.? I'm especially interested in
products that people have actually used, and appliances that are "reasonably" priced.

Any ideas?

>>> Mark Hodges <mvh@sage.net> 03/21/97 07:22am >>>
Love it. In Europe there's really no option except "horizontal axis"
washers. Don't think they're so enlightnened about the nomenclature,
though.
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