Your friend says that he is cooling his bedroom with his refrigerator 😆. Is it true?

Kiran Krishnan
2 min readSep 21, 2021
A refrigerator door opened to cool a room? Impossible
An open Refrigerator

Refrigerators keep our foods safe, cool and lasting. One of your friend who is a bit of slacker and boaster says that he is cooling his bedroom with his refrigerator. You being a science enthusiast finds it hard to believe and proves him wrong with the following arguments.

Important parts of the refrigerator:

  1. Compressor
  2. Condenser
  3. Throttling device
  4. Evaporator

You give further explanation of what these does to prove that it is impossible to cool the whole bedroom using the refrigerator and in fact the opposite happens as the room becomes hotter.

  1. Compressor: This is the heart of the refrigerator which compresses the coolant (refrigerant) vapor from low pressure to high pressure vapor by compression. This raises the temperature of the refrigerant.
  2. Condenser: The high pressure vapor from compressor is converted to liquid by passing it through condenser which is basically coiled tubes wherein the heat is released and the vapor is condensed to high pressure liquid
  3. Throttling device: This is the critical part of the refrigeration system wherein the high pressure cooling liquid is throttled through coiled…

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Kiran Krishnan

Life enthusiast; Seeker; Renaissance man; Life long student ; Self taught scientist.