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Originally Posted by clgustaveson

Technically this wont work.

The specific heat of air is quite low and the reason the air inside a fridge is cooled is because heat is extracted through the radiator type instrument on the back and released into the room.

The specific heat of a molecule is C=T/N working into a larger equation involving compressibility and thermal expansion.

Now molecules in a gas have an elastic attribute to their kinetic energy meaning their collision will not cool or heat surrounding molecules simply by transfer of energy, otherwise the world would freeze in a matter of seconds. Now lets say you did leave your fridge open and the coolant begins to lower the temperature of the air fairly rapidly, where does that energy go? According the law of energy transfer it is carried into the coolant located on that device. But the motion of air will not cool the air in the room down because the heat associated with the compression ratio within the house can only be offset by increasing the airs compression within it's confines.

A/C force air up and out by increasing the compression of air within your house, coolant will increase the compression as well simply by cooling but the heat extracted will be released back into the same room thus resulting in a constant air mixture resulting in your house getting hotter due to the addition of kinetic energy to the equation through thermal motion.

Thank you, but you totally lost me. I do know that air conditioners and refridgerators work similarly because I have taken both apart while junking. Many of the components are the same. That's what gave me the idea that maybe taking the doors off of one would help get a room cooled down, even though I figured it might take longer than an a/c would. I was thinking that, even though a fridge does not circulate air at the same rate as an a/c, eventually all the air in the room would have been circulated enough to cool it down. You are saying that won't work?