“This temperature corresponds to 0 degrees Fahrenheit, so it was “probably a round, easy number to remember”
That’s what Allouche and team will be working on next, as they build their research summary into a full report, to be published in September 2024. “These findings give good reasons for ‘3 degrees of change’ to be further explored,” Allouche says.
Three Degrees Of Change: Frozen food in a Resilient and Sustainable Food System (PDF)
curious how its always us who end up footing this kind of bill, never the big refrigeration centers and such.
They’re probably already running at the optimum temperature. Power is their main input cost, and they’re strongly motivated to minimize it. Meanwhile the average household freezer is set to… Um… how about “7”. That sounds pretty cold to me, yeah?
You wouldn’t believe how much research has gone into studying things like the optimum way to store potatoes.
mine is usually set to minimum, believe it or not people have power bills too, and at the end of the day it gets priority over whatever the optimum temperatures are. spoiling food has an indirect hard to quantify impact, but power bills come every month with a big fat number on it.
the difference is most of them wouldn’t be making as much money, but most of us might not be making rent.
at the end of the day they don’t need to convince me if they really want to sell me shoddier fridges, because they are the ones calling those shots. turns out its a moot point anyway sadly.
IDK maybe something to do with the fact that they are providing a service that only runs because it’s popular and used?
For what it’s worth there is tons of regulation on this shit. It just doesn’t say what you want it to say. Commercial energy use commonly followed a completely different rate structure.