The Appliance Green Zone
It's nearly one year since our complaint (see Green Zone above) over our industry's listlessness in the face of fast rushing catastrophe. Could we possibly be doing any less on this problem? Where are the bright engineers finally with the chance to design something other than egg caddies? Where is the revolution?
Sun Frost, a company of vanishing smallness, has consumer products that refrigerate a cubic foot of fridge space with 1/2 to 2/3 the power of the high-end brands. SF offers products that are 50% more efficient than Federal requirements.
One assumes that Whirlpool, BSH, Liebherr, LG, Daewoo, Samsung, Sub-Zero, Viking, GE, etc, etc, etc have the engineering wherewithal and foresight to build at least one model to compete in the Sun Frost category. Don't rich "Greens", even normal middle class "Greens" deserve the opportunity of buying green fridges with brand names through traditional channels and pricing reflective of mass production?
NOTE: Energy Star is an oversimplified system which results in the certification of piggish units (48" side by side's with water and ice dispenser and auto-defrost at 678 kwh/year) while rejecting more economical units (bottom mount manual defrost at 394 kwh/year)

