Making Ice to help with refridgeration

Started by lorebot, August 19, 2016, 12:18:28 PM

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lorebot

I'd like to see a way to make or collect Ice for use in helping to cool rooms down. At the moment the only way to cool a room is with a Cooler which is a nice way to start, but long before we had refrigeration people would collect ice from frozen lakes and ship it where it was needed. Also, using our coolers to make ice would help a lot with the electrical cost of refrigeration and allow us a way to better deal with solar flares and power outages. When we have power outages in real life our freezers and refrigerators don't immediately go to room temperature, the frozen or chilled food inside of it helps to keep it at a proper temperature for hours as long as you don't open the doors to let out the cold air. Likewise Frozen items shouldn't depend on the air around them to keep them frozen, they should slowly bleed off the frozen status in warmer air until they get back to being unfrozen. If we could collect and store buckets of water in a refrigerated area they should slowly turn to ice over time and then, if the power goes out, slowly absorb the heat in the room keeping it cold until the ice melts back into water.