Save Electricity

where is the video?

Telephone directories wrapped in cling film work better and are a bit more hygienic.

I've thought about this and decided that it is better to use empty containers, it takes less energy to cool them and less loss when you must take them out to make room for the Christmas turkey.

All that they do, is to occupy space so that there is less free air to escape when the door is opened. They do even out the temperature excursions when the door is open for a while and then closed, but the energy used or lost is the same.

Good point.

But the advantage of a false load with mass is it can maintain temperature during a power outage. That wasn't the OP's point though. Eeerr, well, I don't think it was.

To much garbage in the OP!

When I lived in an often unstable power grid area, I used containers of clean water. If the power fails, the ice helps maintain temperature for a while, then becomes potable water in an emergency.

I found it easier to consume thawed ice rather than it would be to consume thawed brick or thawed phone book... The bricks were a little hard on the teeth and the phone books required water anyway to work in the blender.

Got to have the ice to hand for the GnT before tiffin. Hey what Caruthers! Nice in the SunDowners as well.

The drinks are on me!

Can't understand this bricks malarkey!

You can save water by putting a brick in your toilet tank.

You can save electricity by cleaning the dust off the cooling fins on the back of your refrigerator and better yet clean/replace the seal on the door. Adding bricks or better yet water containers to the fridge will delay slightly the spoilage of food in case of a power outage because they have higher heat capacity and thermal inertia than air. It won't save any energy though.

If you can somehow link "Another Brick in the Wall" to refrigerators that would be entertaining

Pink Floyd are cool?

"By the way, which one's Pink?"

Floyd. Unless there's been some kind of mistake...