Sunday, July 19, 2009

Things They Should Invent: heat-generating appliances that cool the surrounding room

Cooling appliances, like refrigerators, radiate heat into the surrounding room because they're discharging the heat that they sucked out of the thing being cooled.

Heating appliances, like ovens, also radiate heat into the surrounding room because of the heat that they're generating.

So why not make ovens that generate heat inside the oven partially by cooling the surrounding room? That would be way better in the summer! Maybe they could even have a switch so they could radiate heat in the winter but cool the room in the summer.

Now you're probably thinking "How often do we use ovens in the summer?" But you know what we do use all the time in the summer? Water heaters! We have energy heating our water and more energy air conditioning our home. Why not take the heat being removed from the air and use it to help heat the water?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

My new imac has been heating up our den.